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Cake day: January 31st, 2025

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  • And it killed all interest I had in Vite as well. This kind of thing practically guarantees that they’ll spend their effort on the for-profit stuff and gut the open source project of things it would otherwise have had built in.

    Sure, maybe not today, but eventually some bean counter is going to look at it and demand it.




  • Snapmaker U1 kickstarter is on right now. Watch some videos on how the preview units went and then consider that.

    Or the Elegoo Centauri Carbon is getting a ton of recommendations. No multi-color addon yet, but it should be released soon. We have no idea if it’ll work well or not, though.

    I still love my A1 and A1 Mini and use them a lot. Like you, I’ve frozen them in time. And I use Orca with them. But I’m not actually afraid to upgrade. I think the “dev mode” will probably be fine, and I actually expect to have to update eventually anyhow. I think Orca will probably eventually update to only use the “dev mode” interface and not work with older firmwares. I can’t see them maintaining 2 different ways to connect to a proprietary printer.




  • That sounds like pretty much exactly what we did at my last job, and it worked pretty well IMO. The individual commits in a PR didn’t ever matter. I don’t even think we used them for code review, except if it came up for review a second time after rework. In that case, we were able to just look at the new commit to see if the right changes were made.

    And we definitely avoided basing off each other’s branches. We had to do it a few times. The only times it went well was when the intent was to merge the child branch into the feature branch. If they were actually separate tickets (and the second relied on the first) it was generally chaotic. But sometimes, it was just necessary.


  • Having a dream isn’t wrong, but every business is difficult, and this one is already being run under by cheap Chinese prints.

    It’s still possible, but all the success I hear now is from people who have designed their own product and are fulfilling specific needs, like adapters for certain tools and such.

    Etsy also just banned 3d prints of other people’s design, so it’s even harder to make money with those now.

    You can still make money with your own designs on Etsy, and direct to people who need things, but now it’s as much about the design of the items as the printing of them.

    I suppose selling at a local market can still work, too, but it’s a huge time sink. (Like any other job, I guess.)