Steve Kohls

@stevekohls
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Founder of Mostly Zeros Software, Principal iOS Developer at Atomic Robot. Husband, dad, dogfather.
Software, electronics, Star Wars, Lego, 3D printing, retrocomputing, liberal wokeness, and more!
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One of the ways LLMs are damaging society is by causing us to endlessly talk about LLMs when we could be doing something creative.

Cheers to everyone who delayed fossil fuel phaseout by saying "you can't switch off fossil fuels overnight"

Because thanks to them everyone now has to face a situation where fossil fuels are switched off overnight 🙃🙃🙃

"Healthy people cost less.
Educated people contribute more.
Housed people are more stable.

...in a healthy society there are no "undeserving".
There are just people."

we've never seen incompetence levels like this

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Trying to help myself so thought I would share to see if it helps anyone else. Got #tinnitus? Maybe this will help. It’s on beta - your feedback very welcome.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/HhYWwQt6

It's #PiDay!

I've spent my whole career working with neurodivergent people in tech.

Here's to the people who thrive with interrupts, who work best when juggling four different things, are pretty great incident responders, and can code while talking on slack.

Here's to the people who need four uninterupted hours to get anything done, but what they get done is fantastic, and they have the in depth knowledge to explain nuances you didn't even know were there, making them the folk who find the long term remediations after incidents.

Here's to the people who take great joy in picking the lint out of a codebase because it's fun, who refactor for the challenge, who see bad process and ache to get changes in to reduce the friction.

Here's to the people who seem to know everyone, who reach across teams to tap experts who don't get the recognition others do, and work best when working WITH.

Y'all are amazing

I just made this design, based on the "72 Pencils" sculptures by George Hart: https://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/pencils.html. George's design consists of 72 pencils arranged in a triangular lattice. His bundles of 18 pencils are arranged in a hollow hexagon pattern and are glued together. In this version, I create a 3D-printable polyhedron (a truncated octahedron) to hold the standard-sized hexagonal pencils. Each bundle consists of 19 pencils in a filled hexagonal pattern. Thus, it requires 76 pencils.

Here's the 3D-printable file: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7313100

My first attempt was to make the faces with the hexagonal holes. The holes had to be offset in a certain way so that, when joined into a polyhedron, the pencils would line up correctly inside it. I kept making errors. Then, I decided to completely restart the project. I made the pencils and the polyhedron in OpenSCAD, then "subtracted" the pencils from the polyhedron to create the holes.