Maryanne Wachter
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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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👋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.
I think today is a good day to open a #codeberg account.
Currently experiencing the Baader-Meinhof effect about SIMD and I’m not mad about it.
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
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…
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…
It’s obviously the cat that is elevating the coolness factor.
I am rewriting my geometric constraint library out of Python into Rust, and hooboy this is a lot easier than Cython.
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
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 🫠🤦‍♀️
Ballard farmers market delivering on the promise of fresh berries…
I left with @hillelwayne.com’s Practical TLA+ 😅
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.
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)
New savory oatmeal hack: Mama Lil’s pickled peppers
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…
✅ 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
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.”

🫠
I fundamentally don’t understand how grown adults don’t buckle their seatbelts.
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
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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.😬
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.
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).
@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
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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?