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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@bambulabglobal.bsky.social H2C printing white and red. The white filament might be a bit wet though 😅. Testing printing a small part of my upcoming new design. #excited

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Tested out the Wireless Inductive Coil kit from Bambulab Maker Supply. It is so cool and enables so many new options to include into 3D printable designs. I got some cool ideas already 😊.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Three years ago I posted my first 3D printable design, unsure anyone would print it. Since then: shadow boxes, lamps, buildable animals, a horror series every October, and hundreds of your print photos. Thank you. Every tier half price this week, code TCM2Y. patreon.com/c/TheCraftyMaker

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Bought 2 exclusive Lego House sets for myself. The kids got some sets too obviously 😊. We also tried The Lego Mini Chef meals. I didn't expect a lot of it, but it tasted surprisingly good. It was really tasty.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I haven’t touched a computer in 8 days. That hasn’t happened in a very long time. Normally, I take my own machine (my MS Surface Laptop Studio) everywhere I go. But for our trip to Denmark, I decided to leave it at home. And surprisingly, I don’t miss it at all. No regrets. 😊

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The Lego House in Billund Denmark was such an amazing experience. Lots of interactive things to do for the kids and mind-blowing models. I really recommend it if you're a Lego fan.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Arrived in my Walhalla in Billund Denmark. Watch my wallet getting destroyed 🤣

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The best user story on my current project delivered zero business value. One abstraction, introduced in isolation, and the team learned more from it than from any other slice. AI agents removed effort as the constraint. Comprehension is what I weigh now. open.substack.com/pub/thecraft...

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Your User Stories Are Sized for the Wrong Bottleneck

In agentic development the scarce resource is human comprehension. Weigh cognitive load when slicing user stories, not just value and effort.

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Jo Van Eyck @jovaneyck.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Prompt engineering, context engineering, harness engineering, loop engineering, graph engineering, dark factories, ... 🤯 Let's do a speedrun through all these concepts and look at what actually is worth diving into as a swe. youtu.be/j_r93YulrUE #agenticengineering

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The state of agentic engineering mid-2026

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Some designs are about solving a problem. This one was about texture, seeing how a ribbed surface would read next to a plain smooth one, same form, side by side. Download's been live a while. Grab it now. makerworld.com/en/models/43...

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I finally wrote up a CAD trick I keep reusing: roofs that print without any support. Instead of making the printer cross one wide gap, you stack hexagons, rotate every other one, and shrink them until the opening has closed itself. No more support scars. open.substack.com/pub/thecraft...

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Stack, Rotate, Shrink: Surfaces That Print Without Support

Stack polygon extrusions, rotate every other one, shrink them and build up your supportless surface.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Guess what? I'm back in the saddle. Finally found the motivation to start printing a design I've been putting off for a while. On top of that, I came up with a new design concept yesterday, and I'm pretty excited to see where it goes.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

"Hexagonal or onion?" is the wrong question. They're the same dependency rule in different drawings. The choice that matters is the other axis: coupling (layers) vs cohesion (vertical slices). New Substack post open.substack.com/pub/thecraft...

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Trump appears to be relying on a classic "bread and circuses" strategy. Ancient Roman emperors used gladiator games and grand spectacles to divert attention from public discontent. The tools may have changed, but the tactic is familiar.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

If you think open source shenanigans are only happening in the 3D printing space, think again. www.opentechhub.io/open-source-...

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A win, and honestly, it feels great. A patent troll tried to get my remix of a Shelly DIN mount taken down, claiming ownership of the design. I dug through the evidence, proved the patented design wasn’t actually theirs to begin with, and got my model reinstated.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Time to add custom supports to some parts of this new printable lamp. A few of these parts have very little contact with the build plate to achieve the best possible finish, so extra support is needed. I’ve never had to design my own supports before, so it’ll be interesting to see how they perform.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The Folio 4 from Orangemonkie is not small, but really impressed by the easy setup. It's kinda portable using the provide huge bag 😅 Really exited to try it out take pictures of my next design. I wished they provided RGB front lighting though. I would buy that add-on in an instant.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Oh my lord. This portable photo studio came in a huge box. I hope it is as portable as advertised 🫣

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

8/ To be honest, I’d even argue that open source, at least in the spirit many people idealize, is slowly dying in this industry.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

7/ And regarding open source: as a software developer, I have a very mixed relationship with OSS. I love what open source has enabled, but I also think people romanticize it sometimes. Maintaining OSS is hard, often thankless, and increasingly unsustainable.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

6/ As for the claims that Bambu Lab is being a “bad actor” for going after creators violating their TOS, honestly, that feels like the reality of the world we live in today. Whether people like it or not, this kind of thing is considered normal business practice across many industries.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

5/ That said, I have zero issue with people preferring other brands or machines. There are definitely printers from other manufacturers that perform just as well, or even better in certain areas, and that’s perfectly fine. Everyone’s experience and priorities are different.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

4/ At this point, I just need my machines to work reliably so I can focus on designing and printing instead of endlessly calibrating and troubleshooting.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

3/ I’ve owned Anycubic and Creality printers before, and honestly, none of them came close for me personally. I spent years tinkering, tweaking, repairing, and constantly chasing print quality. Eventually, I got tired and frustrated with all of it.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

2/ Have I had issues with them? Absolutely. But most of those problems were fixable with a bit of technical knowledge and troubleshooting.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🧵 1/ Just throwing it out there, and probably stirring the pot a little, but I genuinely love all my Bambu Lab printers. They consistently produce high quality prints with very little hassle.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Feeling a bit frustrated. @bambulabglobal.bsky.social keeps on pushing the release date of the Vortek upgrade kit. I've been waiting for it for 3 months now, funds are ready. C'mon Bambu, release the damn thing ...

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Released a new layered design today. A 3D printable girl’s face built from separate raised shapes, using greyscale tones to create the highlights, eyes, lips, & hands. Up close you see the layers. Step back a little & the face comes together. Available for Patreon & @thangs3d.bsky.social subs.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is really the first time they launched a claim against me using a actual patent. Funny thing is the patent registration date is more than a year after the original creator the model and I created the remix. The guy accusing me of theft made me laugh so hard 😅

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Patent trolls found MakerWorld. Got a patent claim on my Shelly DIN mount remix. Pro tip: before claiming ownership, make sure the patent is actually yours and enforceable outside your country. Seriously pathetic.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I turned my ChatGPT and Claude conversations into a searchable knowledge base. The biggest shift was not better prompts. It was being able to find past decisions, reuse solved work, and spot patterns in how I actually use AI. thecraftymaker.substack.com/p/youre-sitt...

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You’re Sitting on a Pile of Solved Problems

Make your AI chat history searchable and reusable

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Finished a new lamp design, Pendulum. White dome shade, dark green base, gold silk halo ring, and sized for a 60mm LED puck. Based on a lamp from Poland and now up for subscribers on Patreon, Thangs and Printables. Links in bio. #3dprint #lights #3ddesign

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

CAVEMAN CLAUDE SKILL: PROMPTS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE Claude code skill "caveman" just added 文言文 (wenyan) mode which uses classical chinese to cut prompt size by up to 60%. Using a 2000 yr old language as a compression layer for tokens is just insane lol github.com/juliusbrusse...

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Everything looked right … until it didn’t. In this article, I explore a different angle on AI. Not as a code generator, but as a way to challenge models in Domain Driven Design earlier. thecraftymaker.substack.com/p/ai-wont-do...

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Jo Van Eyck @jovaneyck.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1na... Talk like a caveman. Wrap CLI toolcalls. Spend 50% less tokens. What's not to like? #agenticengineering #aiengineering #claudemythos

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Cut your LLM token bill in half with these 2 simple tricks.

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

New upcoming 3D printable layered art design. Like & subscribe if you don't want to miss the drop. #3dprinting #3ddesign #3dmodeling #art #grayscale

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Introducing a new Shadow Box of the highly requested K-Pop Demon Hunters. Now available for download! #kpop #3dprint #3dmodel #3dprinttok #hunterxhunter

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Jo Van Eyck @jovaneyck.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Software engineer and drowning in hourly slack pings from colleagues and linkedin slop trying to find what matters for the job going forward? 1 newsletter per week, 100% free, fresh and hand-curated. You're very welcome. agentic-engineering-weekly.ghost.io #agenticengineering #aiaugmentedcoding

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Agentic engineering weekly

weekly agentic engineering digests. Curated for practitioners by practitioners

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Lol, I guess Git Worktree finally found a purpose. You've made it if @jetbrains.com is pushing this "new functionality" in your face 😅 #AI #jetbrainsrider

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 31/03/2026

NEW POST The quality of what AI coding assistants produce depends on how well the prompter articulates team standards. Rahul Garg proposes treating such instructions as infrastructure: versioned, reviewed, and shared artifacts. martinfowler.com/articles/red...

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Encoding Team Standards

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Turn up the volume… the K-Pop Demon Hunters shadow box just dropped 🔥 This one blends bold silhouettes with neon-inspired colors to create a piece that really comes alive once it’s lit. Available now, links in bio 👀 #kpopdemonhunters #shadowbox #3dprinting

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The Crafty Maker @thecraftymaker.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Proximus, a Belgian telecom provider, just launched a new ad featuring a fictional 3D print shop to tell their story. What used to feel niche or experimental is now recognizable enough for a broad audience. 3D printing is clearly going mainstream 🚀 vimeo.com/1108095182?f...

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250728_PROXIMUS_30s_NL_TVMix

This is "250728_PROXIMUS_30s_NL_TVMix" by AKQA Brussels on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 24/03/2026

NEW POST ADRs are short documents that capture a decision, structured into logs that reveal a history of architectural thinking for a product martinfowler.com/bliki/Archit...

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bliki: Architecture Decision Record

A short document that captures a single decision, structured into a log to provide a history

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