joewalnes
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Comment · 25 days ago
Wrote a tutorial:
https://github.com/joewalnes/toybrick
LLMs are excellent at building OpenSCAD models. The tutorial (written in the before-times) will help understanding of the key concepts of OpenSCAD: primitives, transformations, and constructive solid geometry.
Comment · 25 days ago
What about the Isle of Man?
Comment · 2 years ago
Love OpenSCAD! Here’s a little library for generating “toy brick” compatible models for a 3D printer.
Also written to be a follow along example to help understand how to think about writing OpenSCAD programs.
Comment · 3 years ago
Bob was crazy. In the best way.
In the early 2000s, I first encountered Bob through the Java open source community. He had a knack of being able to go deep on a tough problem and emerge with a wonderfully elegant solution. This was a time when software was getting increasingly complex, and so did the knowledge required to understand it, yet Bob consistently bucked the trend and made things seems simple. He would tackle problems that scared others. He was crazy. Crazy Bob.
At one point we had a rivalry working on two open source projects competing to solve the same problem. When we first met face to face, I was nervous there may be confrontation, yet he was friendly, full of energy, and excited that we shared the passion for the same problem. We brainstormed many ideas and both went away feeling great! His crazy energy amplified my own and passion for software.
Shortly after, I joined Google because of Bob. Over the years since, he and I did our best to recruit each other for nearly every company either of us worked at - we just never got the timing right, yet I was always hopeful we'd figure it out eventually.
Even in CxO roles, whenever Bob and I met we'd geek out on all sorts of tech problems, ranging from API design, to embedded C firmware tricks, to financial protocols, to graph network theory, to hardware development. He loved tech, and his eyes lit up whenever we found a shared passion.
Bob was one of those few people who was incredibly smart, could see the problem in different ways, energize everyone around them, and make you want to be a better you.
Crazy Bob. You'll be missed.
Comment · 9 years ago
JUnit ships with this method:
void _dont_implement_Matcher___instead_extend_BaseMatcher_()
If you're interested in why: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/nlt5x/i_believ...
Comment · 10 years ago
Details: https://aws.amazon.com/athena/faqs/
Comment · 11 years ago
A very tiny shell script:
https://github.com/joewalnes/go-getter
Like go get, but you specify exact versions, including transitive dependencies. One GOPATH per project. And most importantly, you don't have to use go get to install the tool in the first place.
Comment · 11 years ago
Dave thanks for doing this. Not just for building the tool but for a very well thought out and convincing presentation.
I'm completely with you. My own solution has similar ideals (per project versioned deps) though a different solution. https://github.com/joewalnes/go-getter/blob/master/README.md. Honestly I'm just glad others are finally talking about the elephant in the room.
Comment · 11 years ago
Very slick! Love seeing Python built games like this. Well done, sir.