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Adam Chalmers
@adamchalmers.com
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Rust at Zoo (prev Cloudflare). Texan (prev Australian). Pynchon fan (prev illiterate). Building a new programming language for CAD at zoo.dev. Love reading sci-fi, pre-20th century history. Blogging at adamchalmers.com and living in Austin TX.
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 3h
Wow I agree
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 3h
Why did this blow up? Roughly 2 of you know my wife.
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 10h
Damn, hopefully see ya in Nov!
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 10h
Do YOU or someone you know in Austin want to speak at the next Austin Systems meetup? We have room for 1 more speaker for next week's event (Wed Oct 15) to talk about some interesting tech for 20-25 minutes. More details at austinsystems.org
Austin Systems Programming
A meetup for curious low-level engineers in Austin, TX. We meet in-person monthly.
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 19h
Congratulations, I'm so happy for y'all too!
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 20h
My wife has officially graduated her PhD, and started clinical practice!
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 1d
drinking a modelo ordinario
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 1d
Someone opened a PR to add built-in support for KCL to Helix, I'm very happy. github.com/helix-editor...
Add support for KittyCAD lang (KCL) by rockboynton · Pull Request #14542 · helix-editor/helix
Support for KCL from Zoo.dev See https://zoo.dev/docs/kcl-book/intro.html for more info Credit to @adamchalmers for his config
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d
Pynchonistas… rise up
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nrc @ncameron.org · 2d
I have availability for Rust consulting or coaching. More details soon, and yep my website needs updating. But if you're considering adopting Rust, want your team to use Rust more effectively, or need a drop-in staff engineer, get in touch!
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 2d
TPOT discovers hypnosis: "you can just tell people to do things"
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 3d
my baggage was somehow not on my flight. Which would be fine, except that I'm flying to LA for a work week at 7am. Wish me luck, all my toiletries were in that suitcase.
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 3d
Stem cell editing gave her the genetic memory of a pilot
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 3d
Survived the 16hr Sydney -> Dallas flight with 1.5yr old baby.
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 3d
I prefer the first
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goingforbrooke 🦀 @goingforbrooke.bsky.social · 3d
wooo, my talk on Rusty counter human trafficking forensics software is up on YouTube! 🦀

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XHZ...
goingforbrooke: "Rust Against the Odds: Fighting Human Trafficking [...]" | RustConf 2025
YouTube video by Rust Foundation
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 6d
I didn't know it was having maintenance issues. I only started using it today.
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 6d
Yeah, it started off totally fine but eventually the script was too complex. Plotters is quite nice!
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 6d
OK, I'm happy with the new visualizer. It's easier to maintain than building gnuplot scripts in Rust. Lets me finally add features like visualizing circular arcs (see the middle image). Plus learning the lib.rs/plotters crate will help in future projects.

Source: github.com/KittyCAD/ezp...
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 6d
Thanks man, I really appreciate it. I mostly post them here because I get lonely working from home all day with nobody to show cool stuff, so I view it like showing my cool programmer internet friends what I've done :) But in the rare cases that someone reads it and has feedback, it's awesome!
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 6d
that's what happens when they can't share!
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 7d
I ripped out gnuplot from my 2D constraints solver, and built my own little tool using the 'plotters' crate. I've never used plotters before, so it's a good chance to learn. If you've got any feedback or suggestions to improve, please let me know.

github.com/KittyCAD/ezp...
Replace gnuplot with Rust library by adamchalmers · Pull Request #112 · KittyCAD/ezpz
I am sick of gnuplot's quirks, and I'm running into problems trying to visualize things properly. Easier to just move it into Rust, which is a language I'm already productive in, rather...
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 7d
cool job alert
Open Source Software Engineer, uv
We're building the future of Python, in Rust.
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 7d
Thanks for pointing that out, fixed it up.
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 7d
I used the typestate pattern for the first time, converting runtime checks into compiletime ones. github.com/KittyCAD/ezp...
Enforce GeometryVariables invariants at type level by adamchalmers · Pull Request #102 · KittyCAD/ezpz
The GeometryVariables struct stores scalar variables that correspond to 2D points, or radii, or other geometric properties. It stores them in a flat 1D array. In order to properly map geometry back...
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