Django's admin is great. I think iommi is better for a lot of projects.

With admin, you basically just write models, and the entire rest of your app is free. Not quite, but, not far off.

It lets you see the position of the motor's shaft. That's used in some motor control algorithms, even if the motor's position isn't exactly the joint's position.

Tabnine has an IDEA plugin. It's not quite as good as Cursor, in my opinion, but it's better to have Tabnine and IDEA than Cursor and VSCode.

It started out as just predictive text, but now it has a chatbot window that you can access GPT, Claude, etc. from, as well as their own model which has better assurances about code privacy.

Oh, cool. One of the most common glass batches (raw materials melted to make glass) used by artists is "Spruce Pine Batch".

Wonder if it’s the same stuff or if glass people get a different bin.

The quartz is crushed and sorted for purity so yes it'd be a different bin than the stuff going to make fused quartz for semiconductors.

Is it?

I've found that I get better results if I cherry pick code to feed to Claude 3.5, instead of pasting whole files.

I'm kind of isolated, though, so maybe I just don't know the trick.

I've been using Cody from Sourcegraph, and it'll write some really great code; business logic, not just tests/simple UI. It does a great job using patterns/models from elsewhere in your codebase.

Part of how it does that is through ingesting your codebase into its context window, and so I imagine that bigger/better context will only improve it. That's a bit of an assumption though.

Really? Cool.

I expected that dropping down to C/C++ would be a large jump in difficulty and quantity of code, but I've found it isn't, and the dev experience isn't entirely worse, as, for example, in-editor code-intelligence is rock solid and very fast in every corner of my code and the libraries I'm using.

If anyone could benefit from speeding up some Python code, I'd highly recommend installing cppyy and giving it a try.

Thanks, I haven’t come across cppyy! But I’ve worked with pybind11, which works well, too.

Sure! I tried pybind11, and some other things. cppyy was the first I tried that didn't give me any trouble. I've been using it pretty heavily for about a year, and still no trouble.

Last I checked cppyy didn't build any code with optimisations enabled (same as cling)

It seems like you might be able to enable some optimizations with EXTRA_CLING_ARGS. Since it's based on cling, it's probably subject to whatever limitations cling has.

To be honest, I don't know much about the speed, as my use-case isn't speeding up slow code.

Fully agree on toxic chemicals.

When you get a workflow down and need quantity, though, resin is cool. Since it exposes the whole bed at once, I can, for example, pull 24 small prints off of a small printer every 1 hour. 2 days of production, and I have hundreds, using just one printer. With FDM, this particular part, FDM couldn't even make, but if it could, it'd be more like 15 minutes per part - would need a small print farm to keep up with literally one $150 printer.

I don't even have a space for the resin printer right now, though. It really needs a dedicated and well-thought-out station to keep the toxic stuff from ruining your day.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Did you try engineering resins, like Siraya Tech's "Build", "Sculpt", etc.?

I make some small parts that I FDM print, then CNC mill for accuracy. Was hoping to switch to resin printing, instead.

I'd add PyMadCAD, to those already mentioned.