Porksnort enjoys laying in the sunshine. Porksnort will not refuse any offer of a snack. Porksnort thinks ‘Christian’ means you have thought a lot about how to live according to the words Jesus apparently actually said.

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Cake day: August 13th, 2025

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  • I love OpenSCAD and also realize it is a super backward way to make 3D models, according to most other people. I don’t bother even mentioning OpenScad as an option for most people, I know it is only for certain people.

    I tried my hand at modeling and designing using more traditional CAD programs that work more visually. I have good spatial reasoning and visualization abilities but I could never get the breakthrough to a point where I felt literate in those tools.

    Constructive Solid Geometry approaches just work for my brain. Now when I need a part designed, I can quickly sketch it out in rough code and I feel confident seeing myself as a ‘designer’ now. Other more ‘visual’ tools waste my time as I get sucked into finger painting instead of working out the fundamentals of the design.

    With the code-first framework, I have to really think about what the part needs to do before I tweak the code.


  • I think the best question to ask first is ‘what kind of server?’

    A web server could run a reasonably busy low-tech web2.0 blog site on a phone, I think without breaking a sweat.

    Other types of serving (media, especially) would be resource limited) maybe not.

    And there is an important difference between ’novelty’ and ‘demo’. Even a novelty server can demonstrate new ways to think about tech. Maybe an author could host their book launch on such a setup, serving only a single file and showing that we don’t exactly need to involve Amazon. That’s where my head goes when thinking about these efforts.