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Comment · 6 months ago
A boring solution for a boring problem - Working with PDFs.
I've been making a browser-based PDF editor that runs on-device via Webassembly / PDFium. Many of the hard parts were done by the open source embedpdf project, and I've been adding my own custom tools on top of it.
It does the usual annotation stuff — highlights, comments, stamps, etc. working on some more advanced stuff now - regex search/redact, measurements and takeoff tools for AEC industry.
Comment · 7 months ago
Every time I have to open Acrobat it makes me want to puke, and Bluebeam is quite expensive, so I'm working on a full-featured PDF editor you can run in the browser.
Comment · 1 year ago
Many structural engineering graduate students still get exposed to TCL as its the input language of the OpenSees framework for structural and earthquake engineering.
https://opensees.ist.berkeley.edu/wiki/index.php?title=OpenS...
Luckily, there is also now a python interpreter.
Comment · 2 years ago
I’ve been using these and vercels v0 to piece together a next.js app, and it works pretty good, for someone with no real ui design experience.
Comment · 3 years ago
I can believe it, after all, I ingest most of my water in a mixture with roasted ground beans from the rainforest.
Comment · 3 years ago
This exists and it’s not even that hard or costly when you consider the purchase price of a house. I had a home energy evaluation completed when I bought my house for about $400. A government could easily require it be provided as a condition of sale. It provides a rating [0] which is good for comparing houses, and also a prioritized list of recommended upgrades.
[0] https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy-efficiency/energuide/energuid...
Comment · 4 years ago
This isn’t correct. You probably saw a concrete residential building and a steel office building by chance. It does not follow that every single office building is built this way. There are concrete office buildings all over the place, usually with thicker slabs than a residential building, because the office building actually needs to be designed for much higher loads.
By the way, the thin steel deck you saw gets concrete poured on it too once installed.
Comment · 4 years ago
Excel is transformational. If you're reading this indoors, there's a good chance that significant portions of the building around you were engineered using excel.
Comment · 4 years ago
A hammock hung in a shady grove of trees. Perfect for lazy Sunday afternoons.
A bunch of tplink smart light switches for the well used lights around the house. Deep satisfaction every night to turn off an entire floor with a voice command. Next up will probably be automatic roller shades, though they are considerably more pricy.
Comment · 4 years ago
If you follow the inlet back to the ocean a short ways, you reach Gingolx (Kincolith) [1] which has < 400 people. It would be a fairly unremarkable place except they randomly started having a big festival called crabfest, which has brought bands such as Trooper, Tom Cochrane, and Nazareth to this tiny village.
Comment · 4 years ago
I suppose it was built without the back pressure (ie doesn’t rely on back pressure for stability) and the change in pressure over time is quite gradual (this drawdown has been occurring over years) so I don’t see a significant problem.
It also gets massively thick as you get deeper. Far more than you would think by looking at the exposed part. Check out old construction photos.
Comment · 4 years ago
Nice. What was the upfront cost and expected payoff time when compared to grid only?
Comment · 4 years ago
A bit of UBC apple trivia which I thought was neat is that the trees in front of UBC Triumf facility are descendants of perhaps the most famous apple tree of all, the one Sir Isaac Newton sat under while composing his theory of gravity.
https://news.ubc.ca/2007/06/07/archive-ubcreports-2007-07jun...
Comment · 4 years ago
its every bored daydreaming passenger's dream come true!
Comment · 4 years ago
Well, I guess I should rethink my constant urge to leave structural engineering and become a software developer.
“The grass is greener…” fallacy seems to be prevalent in most people. It becomes most intense when encountering obstacles, frustrations, boredom, and stress in the current situation, which makes sense I suppose. And it’s so easy to gloss over all the privileges that come with the current situation. When I was broke and busting my ass in university, I couldn’t wait to start my coop jobs. Then half way through coop, I couldn’t wait to get back to class. Now I have the luxury of living a comfortable life and there are no abrupt changes unless I decide to implement them. Yet the dissatisfaction creeps in…
contact -> jeremy (at) kinson (dot) io