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Since you built something on OKF, how would you contrast it with knowledge graph implementations? How do you manage the ontology of what to keep knowledge about? Any cases where traversal would have helped?

Trax | Analytics Engineer | REMOTE CST (Philippines, Costa Rica, US) | Full-time Contract

We're hiring an Analytics Engineer to help power our future. This is a really greenfield project where we need to define the data models that fuel all reporting, analytics, and ML/AI going forward. We do 'freight audit' - we save our clients money by making sure all their logistics spend is correct and as agreed.

At Trax, our data infrastructure is in the middle of a real transformation. We're building the data foundation that will power our next wave of AI features, and we need someone who can own that work end-to-end. This isn't a "run queries and make charts" role.

You'll be:

- Designing and maintaining data marts in dbt + Snowflake

- Building customer-facing dashboards that integrate into our platform

- Bridging the gap between engineering, business ops, and client teams

- Running ad-hoc analyses that drive real decisions

- Shaping how our data platform evolves alongside our AI/ML capabilities

What matters most to us:

- Deep data modeling knowledge (domain logic, not just syntax)

- Advanced SQL; dbt and Snowflake experience is a big bonus

- Strong communicator who translates between technical and non-technical worlds

- A learning mindset; genuinely non-negotiable for us

We're a small, close team. You won't disappear into a large org. You'll work directly with leadership, partner with Solutions and Sales, and have a real voice in how we build. If you thrive on ownership, are energized by complexity, and want to see the direct impact of your work, let's talk! My email and linkedIn are in my profile.

I have not! I will give that a shot, and hope that it will maintain compatibility with BOSL2 (also beta).

I had a similar thought about 3D printing - particularly extruding mathematically defined shapes in vase mode.

In both of these cases, mathematically generating the points to visit (in gcode) is needed, and we don't care about constant speed - the firmware handles the instruction->motion part.

I am thinking about non-planar printing mostly, but this could also apply to CNC finishing passes.

OpenSCAD is great for functional parts, built of basic components. It can start to be good for moderate complexity components with the BOSL library (I use BOSL2) including chamfers/fillets where needed. And the parametric/customization aspect is second to none - IF it's built with that in mind.

Where it really falls down is when you need to somehow get data OUT of the model to feed to other shapes. I would love to be able to specify a chamfer or fillet along a contact edge of two other shapes, but unless you know the exact contact shape, location, and size a priori you will have a tough time getting anything to line up. If you want to use a mesh or model as a negative, every model's zero coordinate needs to be just right or it will just be entirely misaligned.

I've also tried to spend some time performance optimizing for render/output. It is not cooperative at all. It will just soak CPU time for a minute at a time for not even a complex shape! As pseudosudoer said, it really goes off the rails.

But for functional connectors, adapters, and replicating parts, it's great to be able to leverage my software skills in 3D modeling!

This is exciting. I am an architect in a startup that has long valued bringing humans in the loop for the moments when only humans can do the work. The key thing missing between the potential seen in the last couple years of LLM-based fervor and realizing actual value for us has been the notion of control and oversight. So instead, we have built workflows and manual processes in a custom way throughout the business. Happy to discuss privately sometime! (email in profile)

Congrats on the launch! I'll be thinking about this for a while to be sure.

P.S., there is a minor typo on the URL in your BIO.

In my experience, gnucash qualified easily as painful. :)

Here's an example of what I'm talking about: suppose you and a housemate decide that an equitable split for the electric bill is 65/35 based on usage habits. One person pays the electric bill every month. All of these finance apps will download the transaction, categorize the electric bill for me, and maybe apply a custom tag. But I have to manually calculate the amount owed to me, and manually reconcile that with the fact that the other person pays the water bill.

I'd love to find an accounting app for shared arrangements, but it seems like most are targeted to solo or completely joint finances. Monarch listed elsewhere in these comments is the closest I've seen, but it also doesn't support reconciling split transactions.

Any recommendations for a privacy-focused app that can handle transaction splitting in ways other than 50/50? Or tracking accounts from multiple people in a household?

Every app I've tried this is painful or unsupported.