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Maryanne Wachter

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Structural | software engineer ❤️ currently building #ossmaps and #dataviz in #Seattle, into #builtenvironment, #bridges, #OSS, #python 🐍, #localfirst, #CRDTs, cats 🐈 #emacs #climate. I like making useful things. 👋 mclare.dev 🌉 bridge.watch

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Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Nov 17

👋I'm a recovering #structuralengineer. I work on the #AECTech side now through freelance work as a software engineer, particularly around #embodiedcarbon and #sustainability in the #builtenvironment.

I do a lot of work around #mapping and #dataviz. Trying to build what I can #localfirst.

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Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Aug 11

I think today is a good day to open a #codeberg account.

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Aug 11

Currently experiencing the Baader-Meinhof effect about SIMD and I’m not mad about it.

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Aug 9

Like if I have a loop over a Vec> summing values, will it automatically utilize SIMD?

Is there a way to "turn off" SIMD, or isolate which code blocks it would apply to (or if I need to do that explicitly) so I can get a better understanding of if/where it works?

#rust #rustaceans

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Aug 9

According to this: dimforge.com/blog/2020/03...
nalgebra automatically has support for SIMD AoSSoA, but looking at the crate, it appears there's just a set of traits that are SIMD.

I don't know how to investigate where SIMD would happen automatically (if at all).

#rust #rustlang

https://dimforge.com/blog/2020/03/23/s…

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Aug 9

Any #rustaceans here have experience with nalgebra and SIMD? I'm looking to get a better understanding of how SIMD is integrated into nalgebra and if it is automatic.

#rustlang #rust

https://dimforge.com/blog/2020/03/23/s…

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Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Aug 9

It’s obviously the cat that is elevating the coolness factor.

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Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Aug 4

I am rewriting my geometric constraint library out of Python into Rust, and hooboy this is a lot easier than Cython.

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Jul 3

Nerdiest thing I have done in a while…

When you *really* want a book on Japanese and German joinery but the flat shipping cost is more than half the cost of the book, you find 4 friends to go in on buying a bunch of copies #structuralengineering

A well wrapped copy of The Joinery Compendium

A box full of copies of the book, The Joinery Compendium

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Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Jun 22

I saw it on Reddit as a text headline and assumed that it was paraphrasing/exaggerating.

Couldn’t believe it when I turned on audio for the clip 🫠🤦‍♀️

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Jun 22

Ballard farmers market delivering on the promise of fresh berries…

8 pints of berries. From left to right: loganberries, red raspberries, tayberries, and French strawberries

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Jun 19

I left with @hillelwayne.com’s Practical TLA+ 😅

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Jun 19

Surprisingly spotted in a technical bookstore (Ada’s in Capitol Hill):

AutoCAD 2021!

I couldn’t figure out the sorting system *at all* aside for sections for O’Reilly and No Starch Press.

A bookshelf with volumes on iOS, PHP, networking, and AutoCAD 2021!

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Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hot take 🔥

Smoke testing is a dumb term for sanity checking or happy path.

Just more useless jargon to sound impressive.

(Also if your company *only* does smoke testing, run for the hills)

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · May 30

New savory oatmeal hack: Mama Lil’s pickled peppers

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · May 15

En route to #pyconus after a brief stopover in NYC for part of Never Graduate week!

I’ll be talking about debugging in #cython (both at runtime and for memory management) on Saturday after lunch.

us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/pre…

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the conference!#pycon2525

https://us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/pre…

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Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · May 10

✅ Laptop closed
✅ Slack uninstalled
✅ Bridge bag stuffed to the gills with goodies, including my steam deck, emacs stickers, pins, and e-ink stuff
✅ At the airport headed to NYC for the first half of Never Graduate Week before flying onwards to #pycon

Here's hoping things are on an upward trend

A well appointed messenger bag in a blue print with bridges on it stuffed to the gills with the Database Internals book, a steam deck, laptop, super note, headphones and other electronic accoutrements including e-ink tags

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Apr 26

Finally did my first outdoor run post injury (and since moving to Seattle) and nearly got attacked by some Canadian geese (they were just off the running path with their goslings).

My mom’s comment was: “Well they’re Canadian and you’re American.”

🫠

Angry pair of Canadian geese with their four goslings just next to a running path by the sound.

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Apr 24

I fundamentally don’t understand how grown adults don’t buckle their seatbelts.

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Apr 17

Finally got a fully working #python #pandas sidecar in @tauri.app 🎉

...though I should probably rewrite it in @pola.rs 😬

But for now, here's how I did it!
mclare.blog/posts/writin...

Writing a pandas Sidecar for Tauri | MClare Blog

mclare.blog

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Apr 16

It's not surprising that the data I collect for some of my side projects has very poor security practices, but finding an unprotected API with a default react username and password in the query string is a new one for me.😬

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Apr 11

Feels like a lifetime ago, I got spooked by the amount of coding that was going to be expected for the project…

… and ironically a decade later I’m a software engineer.

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Apr 11

www.aisc.org/globalassets...

www.aisc.org

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Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Apr 11

In a really bizarre full circle moment I just had a student explain a structural system to me that was originally going to be the basis of my PhD thesis (I opted not to pursue the degree and topic).

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Apr 11

@pulumi.com makes it easy to deploy static sites and track directory changes if you’re using AWS, Azure, or GCP, but if you’re using Hetzner like me, you’re out of luck.

I took a stab at it using git history, but might look into a more robust solution like rsync 🤔

mclare.blog/posts/syncin...

Syncing Static Sites with Pulumi | MClare Blog

mclare.blog

Maryanne Wachter @mclare.bsky.social · Apr 10

I am so confused why Ryan Reynolds is apparently on the circuit for tech conferences as a keynote speaker (doesn't he have enough money already??)

First Autodesk (I must've missed that he's also a developer) and now Postman (does he think the company delivers mail?)

What will he even talk about?

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