Jon Gilbert

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2026-07-23 15:25:17 UTC

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that *is* useful.
Dya ever worry about signature drift? Like, you're using a scan of your signature from 10,000,000 years ago, but in person a person's signature naturally drifts and changes over time (this is one reason we ask people to sign their name in the roster each time when they vote in SF). Do you update the jpg occasionally?

2026-07-18 02:01:08 UTC

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I've been pressured to use LLM/AI way, WAY more than I was ever pressured to use drugs.

2026-04-13 21:14:49 UTC

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Spoiler: not nearly enough.

2026-04-12 17:01:07 UTC

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yeah.. this is my number-one reason for not pulling the trigger on the MMU3 for my MK4; the spools and feeds have maximum flexibility, but I just don't have that amount of horizontal or vertical space where my printer lives 🙃

2026-03-28 14:38:51 UTC

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2026-01-04 14:08:36 UTC

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Palma 2 I think.

2026-01-04 13:57:01 UTC

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boox? My partner's son really likes his

2025-12-25 00:58:36 UTC

"Die Hard" this, "Star Wars Holiday Special", "Dick Clark Christmas" whatever: in THIS house we celebrate in the traditional way, with a viewing of The GWAR Christmas Celebration, consuming the holy potato pirogies, and then we take the sacrificial goat out back and set that bro aflame.

2025-12-04 05:48:21 UTC

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oh, if I had time I would have distilled out our last few trips into a doc for you! There is SO MUCH YOU WILL NOT SEE IT ALL
If you only have a few days (likely jetlagged), I'd recommend Meiji Jingu, Sugamo Jizodori (for the calm), the super-creepy vending machines at 35.696708, 139.771412 (just outside Akihabara), Uenoken and Ueno Ameyko (the gardens and under-track stalls at Ueno), and Senso-Ji's Nakamisa (but, go there in the evening if you can, it's much more serene).

2025-11-16 19:47:41 UTC

SOON
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2025-11-11 05:23:31 UTC

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The entire model is much, much larger, about 30 by 60 inches; this is only a small section. It's LORGE.
And, Gatorland is only one of an entire ARRAY of scenes following an entire road trip across the USA, all of them kind of amazing! It's put on by BayLUG, the Bay Area LEGO Users Group.
The show will be hosted at the Museum of American History on Palo Alto, every weekend from Dec 6 to Jan 10, 11am to 3pm. If you have the chance, I highly recommend you stop in and marvel! 😃
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2025-11-11 05:14:45 UTC

special SNEAK PREVIEW of the upcoming BayLUG holiday show starting early next month:
GATORLAND USA, as rendered in LEGO:
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2025-11-03 19:19:52 UTC

Friend, this is a book shop
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2025-10-20 22:10:13 UTC

Sometimes it's a wonder that the ATF doesn't intercept more Lego bricklink shipments
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2025-09-09 20:43:05 UTC

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if you know the name of the movie, check
https://www.starringthecomputer.com/features.html - it might already be listed.

2025-08-30 00:29:58 UTC

TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER I HAVE SO MANY INSULTS TO DISPENSE FOR A REASONABLE CASH DEPOSIT
25 CENTS FOR A CURSE SUCH A DEAL FOR YOU SQUIDGY MORTAL EARTHPEOPLES
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2025-08-09 17:00:04 UTC

Also I figured out that if you unravel your croissant and eat it in one long strand you can call it Bread by the Foot and no one can legally do anything to you.

2025-08-04 22:45:18 UTC

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it's a pretty good concert shirt, too
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2025-06-14 16:22:37 UTC

Me: Do you have their number memorized? The only numbers I have memorized are .. yours—
Her: —yeah not helpful if we're going together...
Me: ...mine, and Network Solutions, circa 1993.
Her: That's not useful to anyone.

2025-06-13 13:35:34 UTC

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it was definitely a big The Onion Is Always Somehow Right monent
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2025-04-28 21:41:27 UTC

Hot dog, an Art-o-mat!
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2025-03-19 01:01:17 UTC

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It's available for use right now, *today*, this VERY MOMENT, at https://github.com/jon-gilbert/openscad_annotations/releases
If you use it, I'd love to hear about it! :D

2025-03-19 01:00:51 UTC

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Maybe you want to visually examine this one part without the rest of the model in the scene, or maybe you want to export a singular STL for printing and you're not sure your slicer can tell the difference between shapes; whatever. This'll help sweep everything away momentarily and let you focus on one or two aspects of your model, without having to refactor or transplant. AND you get all the normal partno() stuff like labeling and expansion (cf: https://mastodon.social/@jgilbert/112254933443683149)

2025-03-19 01:00:12 UTC

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This is built-in to openscad_annotations, you don't have specify more than the partno() or partno_attach() calls to get isolation.

2025-03-19 00:59:28 UTC

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An obscenely simple example would look like this:
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2025-03-19 00:55:40 UTC

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There's a few minor bugfixes, but the one bit I'm super happy with is the singular part isolation stuff. It builds on the parting-out of model shapes and allows you to isolate a single part or sub-part within your model onto its own.
It starts with building out a model that has logically distinct, BOSL2-attachable parts, and when you want to isolate one of them, you set it to a global somewhere in your SCAD source: only that part will be shown, regardless of where it is in the child hierarchy.

2025-03-19 00:54:51 UTC

Last April I broke out a bunch of internal #OpenSCAD libraries from a project I'm working on into their own library set. I just made an update to one of those libraries, the collection of decoration and arrangement modules in openscad_annotations, that I'm pretty jazzed with.
🧵

2025-03-13 16:25:31 UTC

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a variety of folders have this behavior in recent MacOS versions. See
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61394972/program-would-like-to-access-files-in-your-documents-folder-message-with-v for a smattering of possible solutions that might work for you.

2025-03-08 00:14:50 UTC

For those of you wanting a halfway decent representative logo from @npub1fdr…lvhs 's coined word #enshittification, I offer to you this monstrosity for use as you like (just, you know, credit me if you would, please).
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2025-02-23 17:03:26 UTC

Hello! I'm soliciting your suggestions for the quirkiest, oddest, most unusual, most overlooked roadside (or near roadside) stops along the San Diego - Las Vegas - Flagstaff - Santa Fe - Roswell - Tucson - Phoenix - San Diego looped route.
Reboost ok! No historic plaque is too insignificant, no random nameless painted car husk too boring, no gee gaw shop too tacky.
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2025-01-18 05:42:06 UTC

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2024-12-30 17:36:57 UTC

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It's fine art, mixed media with acrylics and fabrics, and it's a delight to experience. Looks something like this:
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2024-12-30 16:51:29 UTC

Hey artists, my partner is on mastodon.art and can't see, like, 50% of the federation because her instance has blocked so many other instances.
Is there another, better, art-focused instance that she can move to? It's frustrating to both of us but obviously mostly her.
(a boost is appreciated in lieu of an actual answer, ty!)

2024-11-27 01:33:24 UTC

There is a seedy, dark network of turkey up-trades and exchanges going on in San Francisco right now, swapping birds of various sizes around to compensate for Good Egg's inability to get the right size fowl to their customers. It's all happening on the sly in dimly lit alleys and garages, coolers of fresh turkeys being handed over, all communicated over secure channels like Signal and the dark web.
I don't wish I were making any of this up, and I'm not.

2024-10-19 06:11:46 UTC

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I have been traveling 177mph now for about 1h40m. I've gone just under 300 miles. Along the way I ate an ekiben, had a snooze, and watched the countryside woooosh by, all without wearing a seatbelt or getting invasively scanned or had my belongings rifled through. I'm chill, I got some work done, and I paid way way less than an air ticket cost.
America, you could have this experience too if you weren't so busy shoving your dicks into the tailpipes of your road-hogging street behemoths.

2024-10-19 05:51:02 UTC

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ohno tokyo banana sugar crash

2024-10-19 04:52:02 UTC

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OH MY GOD LOOK AT US WE'RE GOING SO FAST

2024-10-19 04:19:28 UTC

I have not stopped laughing and chuckling to myself and to all those around me since I got my shinkansen tickets 2 hours ago.
My travel mates are threatening to leave me here.

2024-09-07 16:57:54 UTC

Doesn't matter where you live, ain't no one as selectively ignorant as a #sanfrancisco couple at a farmers market, just staring down God in the face while standing in front of the "no pets" sign with their dogs.
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