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Livenerf!

https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf

This reminds me of the Hindu monastery on Kauai, where the monks have a laser cutter [0], they use it to make merch for the gift shop.

I believe the temple on Kauai is hand-carved, but I enjoy the contrast of monastic orders using CAD/CAM tooling. It makes perfect sense when you think of the cutting-edge tech it required to make an illuminated manuscript, for example. I suspect there have always been hacker/nerd types among those groups.

[0] https://www.himalayanacademy.com/archive-taka-single-post/?t...

It's my understanding they can detain under the inherent contempt power, it's been reported [0] that the House has a jail that can be readied if needed.

[0] https://rollcall.com/2019/05/08/just-where-is-this-secret-ho...

Start menu > Run > sol.exe for solitaire :)

This [0] is my secret weapon against this kind of slop. Any time I see any of these markers I tell my agent to read this again. Works unreasonably well.

[0] https://gist.githubusercontent.com/birep/bb865b2799d3f86d55f...

Ebay co-founder Pierre Omidyar is the guy that more or less bought off the reporters with access to the Snowden documents for $250M [0] back in 2013.

The same guy just bought the company distributing the Musk film (checks notes) 9 days ago; it was then quickly pulled from theaters. Make of that what you will, as the Gizmodo piece says, the timing is certainly odd.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24563445

Horrifying framing, I will remember that analogy viscerally. Well done.

Very interesting project! I make an MCP for woodworking [0] that has a similar set of constraints: citing everything to real world materials, sourcing them from real suppliers. I also support electrical components, for designs like this raspberry pi arcade cabinet [1].

For context, I've currently got 579 registered users. By far, most of them are using it to design brand new projects or to customize our published plans, rather than converting their existing designs into orderable BOMs.

I wonder if you have considered building configurable libraries of designs and/or PCB design features into your MCP? That could allow for building with in-stock, least expensive components. And it opens your product up to tinkerers that wouldn't otherwise design a PCB in KiCad.

I am one such potential customer! I am restoring a classic Skee Ball machine from the early 90s, I want to make a little esp32 board to replace the vintage system board. If I could go from prompt to PO Box for a reasonable price I would certainly be interested.

Sawdust also tracks shop inventory and capabilities, so if you have lumber and fasteners and your table saw configured you can filter down to things you can build with what you have on hand. Could be interesting to do something similar here with e.g. minimum order quantity leftovers.

Also an opportunity to become a marketplace -- if I can design my replacement board then publish it and get a cut of its sales, you can smartly replace OOS or now-more-expensive components, and keep the board purchasable and configurable, solving lots of problems for the open source hardware space.

[0] https://sawdust.diy

[1] https://app.sawdust.diy/share/3469b5e6-88f8-43f5-ade0-c373d3...

This is a lovely piece. When I saw it in /new I thought the post might be about agentic woodworking tools, like the one I'm building [0].

Sounds like your dad might have gotten a kick out of it! I added sliding miter saws a couple weeks ago, and am working on a jig framework right now.

[0] sawdust.diy

Vast improvement! Nice work.

I have long wanted a similar set of tools for using data to contextualize the opinions I'm exposed to, either via podcasts or social media and the like. Nicely done!

But... boy, the slop smell is strong with this doc.

I would be really interested in seeing what would happen if you gave your agent one turn to clean it all up. You motivated me to share my anti-slop guide [0], which is so unreasonably effective I have hesitated to share it previously -- it's nice to be able to spot the slop from a mile away. But if you have a sec I would be really curious to see the same page after a round of de-smelling.

[0] https://gist.githubusercontent.com/birep/bb865b2799d3f86d55f...

Very commonly used acronyms in business/SWE contexts.

The lower the number the higher the priority, e.g. if production is broken someone might say "This is p -1" (higher than your highest priority).

P0 is "do this immediately", P1 is very important, P2/P3 are like "nice to haves." P100 would mean something like "we will never do this"

That's exactly why I built it, I needed my brain visuals to match reality a bit more when building a shed. Curious to hear how it goes! If you run in to any issues please ask your agent to send in a feature request/bug report, or drop me an email (it's in my profile).

We haven't collaborated at all but are working on very similar projects, so probably do think a lot alike. I last checked shopspec out when the creator mentioned it in the thread[0] where I first shared Sawdust. I just took a look and it has definitely grown in a similar direction, but I certainly wouldn't attribute that to anything aside from similar people working on similar projects and communicating with a similar visual language.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234277

Hey that's me! Thanks for the plug.

Give my tool a try, https://sawdust.diy

You ought to give it a blender install and ask it to model the house for you & show you color options for the garage door, I bet it would be much closer. I had Astra w/ Codex model rigged miter saws, table saws and router tables for my carpentry simulator [0], it did a surprisingly decent job.

[0] https://sawdust.diy

+1 from another Photopea user here.

And at 8 Euro a month I can't quite justify the Photopea premium plan.

I use it enough I would happily pay say $50 for a self-hosted single user license that will not get updates. But not 8 euro a month forever.

I am finally forcing myself to un-learn the decades of Adobe muscle memory and replace it with gimp/krita. Or maybe I'll vibe up something that does exactly what want and nothing more; bespoke one-off tooling is just so easy to do now.

Thanks for the fun read, I went ahead and translated my site into Toki Pona [0]

[0] https://i18n.md/?lang=tok

Vulkan was reliably crashing after a certain point in the context window, Rocm has been stable as a rock. Tps was basically a wash.

Here they are: https://gist.github.com/birep/6f2c8d490c7a29820997d57bd654c3...

Ten days ago I had an experience with Gemini 3.8 flash that made me wonder if I was being routed to a different model under test. I was trying to use rocm with llama.cpp on my 128gb Strix Halo but could only get it to run Vulkan. I pasted the error message into agy and it proceeded to attach GDB to my GPU driver, reverse-engineer the kernel queue ioctl interface, and author an LD_PRELOAD C shim to get ROCm llama.cpp working on my Strix Halo. My jaw was hanging open the whole time.

Edit to add the fix: https://gist.github.com/birep/6f2c8d490c7a29820997d57bd654c3...

Maybe CC does something that breaks the cache? I cannot recommend Oh My Pi enough. Every default is galaxy brained, and it plays incredibly well with deepseek flash 4.1. My favorite coding harness rn for sure.

Were you using OpenRouter? I've used 1.8bn tokens in the past week from DeepSeek themselves and 99.2% were cache hits. Total cost was $18.13 usd.

You should try building something with it, the hype is what it is, but the model is crazy useful.

I'm building a woodworking app and I've managed to create an autopilot that can take a simple instruction ("get me 5 2x4s", "cut the middle 2x4 into 4 equal pieces", "move the 2x4 3 feet left") and the action instantly happens with next to no lag. There is already an llm but now it can share an intent, and the geometry system shows jev the various actions and jev chooses the action that gets it closer to the goal until it has found a state that matches the intent or gives up. The result is the llm can think "higher level" and let the cheap fast model grind out the options in a relative blink of the eye, without the 30s of reasoning the llm would have done about the various operations it could try.

Oh My Pi has done this for a while now, they call it Snap compact.

Clear violation of tos

(This harms the fleshbag)

Inspired by https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm

It goes to r2 and supports multi-part with 5 tib chunks