Maryanne Wachter

The last few months have been a blur, but over the holiday break I got back into some #datavisualization and finished this project compiling and normalizing data for #structuralengineering licenses in the US using @observablehq.com

structural-engineering.fyi

#dataviz #aec

Oh my god. I used tech speak on a non tech person and told her that I was free all today other than standup at 9 if she wanted to grab dinner...

...which she interpreted as, I had standup comedy at 9 pm, so when I met her at 7 pm, she asked me about my burgeoning stage career.

🫠

I think today is a good day to open a #codeberg account.

Currently experiencing the Baader-Meinhof effect about SIMD and I’m not mad about it.

Like if I have a loop over a Vec<Vector3d<f64>> summing values, will it automatically utilize SIMD?

Is there a way to "turn off" SIMD, or isolate which code blocks it would apply to (or if I need to do that explicitly) so I can get a better understanding of if/where it works?

#rust #rustaceans

According to this: dimforge.com/blog/2020/03...
nalgebra automatically has support for SIMD AoSSoA, but looking at the crate, it appears there's just a set of traits that are SIMD.

I don't know how to investigate where SIMD would happen automatically (if at all).

#rust #rustlang

Any #rustaceans here have experience with nalgebra and SIMD? I'm looking to get a better understanding of how SIMD is integrated into nalgebra and if it is automatic.

#rustlang #rust

It’s obviously the cat that is elevating the coolness factor.

I am rewriting my geometric constraint library out of Python into Rust, and hooboy this is a lot easier than Cython.

A well wrapped copy of The Joinery Compendium

A box full of copies of the book, The Joinery Compendium

Nerdiest thing I have done in a while…

When you *really* want a book on Japanese and German joinery but the flat shipping cost is more than half the cost of the book, you find 4 friends to go in on buying a bunch of copies #structuralengineering

I saw it on Reddit as a text headline and assumed that it was paraphrasing/exaggerating.

Couldn’t believe it when I turned on audio for the clip 🫠🤦‍♀️

8 pints of berries. From left to right: loganberries, red raspberries, tayberries, and French strawberries

Ballard farmers market delivering on the promise of fresh berries…

I left with @hillelwayne.com’s Practical TLA+ 😅

A bookshelf with volumes on iOS, PHP, networking, and AutoCAD 2021!

Surprisingly spotted in a technical bookstore (Ada’s in Capitol Hill):

AutoCAD 2021!

I couldn’t figure out the sorting system *at all* aside for sections for O’Reilly and No Starch Press.

Hot take 🔥

Smoke testing is a dumb term for sanity checking or happy path.

Just more useless jargon to sound impressive.

(Also if your company *only* does smoke testing, run for the hills)

New savory oatmeal hack: Mama Lil’s pickled peppers

En route to #pyconus after a brief stopover in NYC for part of Never Graduate week!

I’ll be talking about debugging in #cython (both at runtime and for memory management) on Saturday after lunch.

us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/pre…

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the conference!

#pycon25

A well appointed messenger bag in a blue print with bridges on it stuffed to the gills with the Database Internals book, a steam deck, laptop, super note, headphones and other electronic accoutrements including e-ink tags

✅ Laptop closed
✅ Slack uninstalled
✅ Bridge bag stuffed to the gills with goodies, including my steam deck, emacs stickers, pins, and e-ink stuff
✅ At the airport headed to NYC for the first half of Never Graduate Week before flying onwards to #pycon

Here's hoping things are on an upward trend

Angry pair of Canadian geese with their four goslings just next to a running path by the sound.

Finally did my first outdoor run post injury (and since moving to Seattle) and nearly got attacked by some Canadian geese (they were just off the running path with their goslings).

My mom’s comment was: “Well they’re Canadian and you’re American.”

🫠

I fundamentally don’t understand how grown adults don’t buckle their seatbelts.

Finally got a fully working #python #pandas sidecar in @tauri.app 🎉

...though I should probably rewrite it in @pola.rs 😬

But for now, here's how I did it!
mclare.blog/posts/writin...

It's not surprising that the data I collect for some of my side projects has very poor security practices, but finding an unprotected API with a default react username and password in the query string is a new one for me.😬

Feels like a lifetime ago, I got spooked by the amount of coding that was going to be expected for the project…

… and ironically a decade later I’m a software engineer.

www.aisc.org/globalassets...

In a really bizarre full circle moment I just had a student explain a structural system to me that was originally going to be the basis of my PhD thesis (I opted not to pursue the degree and topic).

@pulumi.com makes it easy to deploy static sites and track directory changes if you’re using AWS, Azure, or GCP, but if you’re using Hetzner like me, you’re out of luck.

I took a stab at it using git history, but might look into a more robust solution like rsync 🤔

mclare.blog/posts/syncin...

I am so confused why Ryan Reynolds is apparently on the circuit for tech conferences as a keynote speaker (doesn't he have enough money already??)

First Autodesk (I must've missed that he's also a developer) and now Postman (does he think the company delivers mail?)

What will he even talk about?

A bewildered person holding a cat that has launched themselves onto their chest where there is no support. The cat looks nonplussed.

I tweaked my IT band after a month of dedicated running (of course...) and the cats are taking advantage of my prone state of working on the couch.

However, this mean my laptop is *in* my lap, thus occupying the space they normal would.

Does this stop them? No. No it does not.

An org mode buffer in emacs with a text representation of a database table. There is an inline png in the results from the literate programming block execution

Today's #emacs learning is that I can generate ERDs with #mermaidjs inside #orgmode

Snuggles (and vigorous ear cleaning) on this #caturday #MurphyNCooper