15. September 2016

The World's Simplest IRC Bot - Again

I was talking to a colleague who was expounding about the coolness of elixir. So I thought I should give it a try. In the spirit of doing something non-trivial to learn a new tool, I decided to port over the IRC bot I’ve been working on in go and ruby (which passes my bar for non-triviality).

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01. September 2016

The World's Simplest IRC Bot

I saw an article on twitter about writing an IRC bot in ruby. It piqued my interest because of nostalgia and because I’m a slack curmudgeon. I believe that IRC has value. I never actually got around to trying the cinch gem that the article recommends, although if I ever need to do anything serious in this realm it wil be the first tool I turn to.

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08. April 2016

Designing Models for 3D Printing in openSCAD

My work (TWG) has a 3D printer for employees to play with and use. Sometime last summer I downloaded some train tracks from thingiverse and printed them for my son to play with. He loves the custom tracks dearly. He’s always excited to visit my work to see what a coworker called “the toy factory”. And often he will ask me to print him something while I’m at work. So I get a lot of emotional reward from using this machine.

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