btreecat

I got rid of mine, possibly hastily.

Have since replaced it with a Z wave Honeywell thermostat, and I'm much happier.

Not only did I kill the wifi & Internet dependency, but the UX is much closer to a traditional thermostat. So other folks don't seem to have an issue with it as much.

And it actually supports my hardware thermometer for dual fuel cutover.

Don't scare me like that

I appreciate what OpenSCAD brought us, but there's not much value in it today.

If you want the same script support, but also have an actual tool that can take over when your model is no longer symmetrical, free CAD works v well.

You can enable OpenSCAD support, but I really don't think it's more efficient at getting me to my final geometry.

Obviously, I'm not storing my personal docs in office lol

Agreed, id sooner burn tokens to make my own than pay for something else to have access to my docs

I have, and it always does something unexpected and undesirable.

Plan mode ensures I'm spending fewer tokens on the code-test loop, and more on the arch/design, and allows me to keep appraised of what's going on, while planning for future changes better.

Maybe folks who don't need planning, don't have as much concern for the details, and are happy enough with just evaluation of if it works or not.

I think that's an interesting take, I have been chewing on the "so what" of function coloring myself, but haven't reached any conclusions.

Would be interested to hear why you don't find it a useful framework either.

It can't suck all that much if you're not willing to give it up.

Yeah I had looked into dump978 in the past, but it was broken. I see it had updates back in 2023, maybe it compiles again.

Thanks!

Finally UAT support!

How's the software side though?

Last time I looked dump1090 worked well, but there was no way to decode UAT packets.

Something on my to-do list, that's now become more plausible with Claude assisting the research.

With the increased instability of global infrastructure, being able to edit locally is critical IMO.

Others may feel different.

That sounds kinda like the path of maturity of a start-up.

If a company is bootstrapped by a few engineers, where would the business acumen come from exactly?

I've been part of tiny startups, medium size, and large ones. I've been at state agencies and ancient private organizations.

The more people, the more corporate the culture. The more cooperate, the more the business needs & wants drive choices.

Online only diagrams is a hard no for me. I'd rather commit the mermaid and render a png and share that then have another issue with seats/license for critical documentation.

I agree, being bummed is part of life, so is growing past it. Only so much time for what could have been.

I don't think it would require a "perfect meritocracy" for languages that are found "beautiful" and "enjoyable" to succeed if they are also "practical" and have accessable tooling.

What makes languages popular is clearly multidimensional, where astehctics are certainty one dimension (even ugly languages get updates over time if there's enough energy behind the project) but so is timing, tooling, investment, community, etc.

I think it's reasonable to conclude that whatever beautiful nature is/was there wasn't enough. In terms of weight of importance, or degree of agreement.