MClare

Software | structural #engineer based in PNW ❤️ #builtenv, #AEC, #climate, #sustainability, #OSS, #localfirst, #python #pyladies, #dataviz, #cats 🐈 🐈‍⬛ Recurse Center (npub1qh8…rlu5) alum. I like making useful things. 👉🌉https://bridge.watch

Site: https://mclare.dev
Github: https://m-clare.github.io
Blog: https://mclare.blog

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2026-05-28 17:56:22 UTC

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I had to cave and install the app because I was having issues. I used a burner email and the app is *so* much worse than I thought.
Turns out, the reason I was having so much pain using it is that if you *dont* use the app, the default setting is maximum output (even if you try to manually adjust using the buttons on the actual pump.)
Even better, the app has an Enhance My AI button 😖

2026-05-17 16:23:55 UTC

It is the epitome of @npub1fdr…lvhs #enshittification that to access all the features of my breast pump, I have to install an app on my phone AND create an online user account 💀
… like why the hell do they need that data?

2026-01-14 19:25:25 UTC

Yes my #cat is ridiculously photogenic #murphyncooper #catsofmastodon #cats
https://recurse.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/895/086/301/858/497/original/1a300fd59e8fc99c.jpg

2025-12-14 05:37:41 UTC

Also this might be the best piece of #knitting I’ve done recently. My friend asked for an *unusual* Christmas stocking for her daughter
https://recurse.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/716/300/178/868/804/original/7e83c717fe292fb9.jpg

2025-10-27 20:57:21 UTC

I, uh, really shot myself in the foot a bit with using a Mac for my work computer, mainly because it appears the x86_64 Linux support just... still doesn't work on Apple Silicon?
I was promised that Parallels can use Rosetta so I'd be able to emulate, but apparently that is only true for existing VMs.
I'm trying UTM for emulation, haven't closed the loop on if it's possible at all, but I'm pretty pissed that my "pro" edition of Parallels promised it would be able to do this and it can't!

2025-03-20 03:18:54 UTC

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Compared to yesterday's visual, this plot shows is that there were a huge number of licenses awarded in those outlier years, but many of them are no longer active or are duplicate licenses.
The raw numbers for 2008 and 2021 were 1822 licenses in UT and 1333 in GA.
https://recurse.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/192/594/596/073/642/original/08669db72ce72075.png

2025-03-20 03:18:06 UTC

Real quick #dataviz today. I took all the raw license data (~32000) entries, and plotted the aggregates by year and state in a stacked bar chart.
This is where it's really obvious about the outliers in UT and GA thanks to legislation changes.
https://recurse.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/192/591/404/130/801/original/3d1a897a88328f86.png

2024-12-11 17:08:26 UTC

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…yet

2024-12-11 16:19:30 UTC

Starting to use #uv more thank in part to @npub1nsp…ahke and @npub12k8…v99r singing its praises 😅.
I couldn't find any existing packages for uv and #emacs, so I wrote my own little function to do uv-activate:
https://mclare.blog/posts/using-uv-in-emacs/

2024-11-16 15:23:34 UTC

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such trolling for an early Saturday morning

2024-11-03 14:22:33 UTC

Node package management is a special circle of hell...
Trying to update an ipywidget and I keep getting cryptic errors about workspaces, even though I'm not using a damn yarn workspace (and I have to use yarn because that's what the widget examples utilize with its yarn wrapped jlpm CLI tool.)
Internal Error: latex-widget@workspace:.: This package doesn't seem to be present in your lockfile; run "yarn install" to update the lockfile
Blowing away my yarn.lock file makes things worse
🤬

2024-11-02 21:32:34 UTC

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this is *absolutely* att f***ery.
All other websites load, and I can successfully access it when I’m connected via hotspot on my phone.

2024-11-02 21:13:04 UTC

I think my internet provider is blocking me from accessing the #hetzner auction site and I have so many questions…
Starting with, WTF??

2024-10-26 21:56:36 UTC

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I think the size he has is actually 2TB!

2024-10-26 17:42:41 UTC

My husband goes through external hard drives at an alarming rate.
Is there a guide to *reliable* external hard drives? I think he’s tried every brand under the sun and I’m thinking of getting a Geiger counter at this point.

2024-10-26 06:20:27 UTC

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I have more keyboards (5) than cats (2) 😅

2024-10-26 02:35:40 UTC

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dang! Sorry I missed out. I would have had 3 within reach to show off 😅

2024-10-13 04:09:09 UTC

You know you’ve been staring at dockerfiles too long when you parse “rediscover” as “redis cover”.

2024-10-11 18:28:20 UTC

It is #MurphyNCooper ‘s third birthday (according to their shelter documents)!
#cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon
Here are the pictures of them on the shelter website. When we went to the shelter, they put us in a kitten room by ourselves (COVID) and these two were still the ones that came up to us.
https://recurse.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/290/192/728/221/428/original/181044db9b55aceb.jpeg
https://recurse.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/290/192/861/529/225/original/1b13c9058b721b62.jpeg
https://recurse.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/290/193/904/766/346/original/3c6e339222dbdb1c.jpeg
https://recurse.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/290/194/149/808/558/original/26736d02cca1122a.jpeg

2024-10-11 02:47:45 UTC

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I work with node every day and this still happens (had a bunch of complaints this morning that my npm version was simultaneously too high and too low 🤦‍♀️).
It’s crazy that SOP when you suddenly get obtuse errors is to blow away all the packages and pray.