I make robots mostly. I want to figure out how robots can help solve social problems. Read my writing or see my portfolio at tlalexander.com and see my robots at http://reboot.love
My cool robot arm:
https://twitter.com/TLAlexander/status/1455320442642714625
See my farming robotics work here:
https://community.twistedfields.com/t/a-closer-look-at-acorn-our-open-source-precision-farming-rover/108
You are welcome to email me but usually I don’t end up responding to out of the blue emails (due to procrastination or disorganization). [tlalexander at gmail]
Six months. Basically when Claude code started to hit that inflection point I chose a project that seemed potentially impossible but was also something I care deeply about. (I have a lot of history with open source and CAD and I even made an open source CAD forum on GitHub a few years ago to discuss options.)
I set up remote tmux access to my phone right at the beginning so I have been advancing it rather continuously during my waking hours. Especially the last few months which have been a very focused push on a new kernel architecture.
The app consists of a wasm (web assembly) binary and JavaScript. The wasm runs locally on your machine in your browser and communicates with the JavaScript frontend. There is no backend server to handle any part of the program. The URL just loads the binary in to your local browser. I don’t know exactly how one would set this up but this would work for example fully offline. The browser basically just becomes a universal compute and rendering engine for it.
Browser can be local. What’s nice about browser based is that browser based programs can run on every device. Though it sounds like this one requires chrome which seems weird to me.
Agreed. I’m not OP but for six months I’ve been using Claude to build a from-scratch CAD kernel based on Rust and WASM, MIT licensed.
The actual UI still needs a lot of work, but I’ve been focused on the kernel. Fable has helped a lot though Opus was already making great headway.
I’m an OnShape power user going back about ten years, Solidworks before that. I need a CAD system that absolutely works. There is a lot of work to do still, and it still seems impossible to succeed, but I’ve been very happy with where things have been going with it lately.
It’s serverless, local, and browser based. You can load the latest binary from GitHub pages here:
Not all of us live in places with EU funding. I worked at a rural farm in California and the EU refused to fund our network infrastructure. We had few reliable options, and Starlink turned out to be the best.
Seems a bit knee jerk. I go on walks and bike rides all the time. A couple of times I’ve used voice mode and it’s been interesting. I could have listened to music or a podcast, listen to YouTube or just unplug. But every walk is different.
If you’re uncomfortable with this new world, and I’m sure I am even as I participate, you could tell us more about that?
“On an ordinary coding prompt, the J-space of a model trained to sabotage code contains “fake,” “fraud,” “secretly,” and “deliberately” at the start of its response.”
I would like to know more about their model trained to sabotage code…
Do they also show bikes? I use the mirror not just to monitor cars but see where my friends are. If a friend breaks down and is on the side of the road I want to see without having to fully turn my head around.
To anyone who wants to ride more safely I cannot recommend enough this simple $20 mirror which I find so valuable that I buy extra and hand them out to friends and strangers to help keep them safer. A mirror mounted on your glasses or a similar mirror affixed to your helmet (close to your eyes and mounted on your head) allows for a large field of view that you can easily steer to see behind you.
I ride on the streets of Oakland every single day and situational awareness is critical. The single biggest thing you can do for safety is watch each car as it approaches behind you for its speed and trajectory. Anyone approaching too close or too fast is a bad sign and with a mirror you can more easily avoid them.
These are also available on Amazon and I am not in any way affiliated I just think they’re good life saving technology:
Signs really do seem to suggest it will be announced soon. There’s records of multiple large shipments of Virtual Reality headsets arriving at Valve, and they say it’s coming out this summer.
Steam frame is out soon and should be the ultimate Linux friendly headset. It runs real Linux and Valve is big on “it’s your computer to use as you please”.
Oh absolutely wait like two weeks and get on the list for a Steam Frame. It actually runs arch Linux and Steam says “it’s your computer, you can do what you want with it” unlike Meta and the Quest. I’m excited to do Kicad in mine.
I make robots mostly. I want to figure out how robots can help solve social problems. Read my writing or see my portfolio at tlalexander.com and see my robots at http://reboot.love
My cool robot arm: https://twitter.com/TLAlexander/status/1455320442642714625
See my farming robotics work here: https://community.twistedfields.com/t/a-closer-look-at-acorn-our-open-source-precision-farming-rover/108
And:
https://community.twistedfields.com/t/join-the-solar-farming-revolution-support-acorn-and-empower-farmers-worldwide/370
You are welcome to email me but usually I don’t end up responding to out of the blue emails (due to procrastination or disorganization). [tlalexander at gmail]