I’m sure someone at Pokemon Go HQ is like “it’s a great way to get outside and be with other people!“ But every day there’s a roving band of zombie-like thirty-somethings in the park near my house shuffling around in total silence staring at their phones.
...the "clicky" modeling environments you talk about. Natural language based code generation of geometry-generating logic behind a typical modeling tool. The geometry provided by the tool becomes another input to the function.
Geometry transformations, for example. And what is only possible with generating code. Return to me the link graph for all Wikipedia articles related to the Titanic, for example. It's interesting to consider whether these graphs could become the brains for the tools in...
Which is an important aspect of ownership. Which is an important part of building a community around a tool, as we saw with Grasshopper and Dynamo. Where I think this hybrid is really interesting is understanding whether the user begins to intuit what is easier with built-in functions...
But one learning from Dynamo was that the concept of reusability was still for nerds. Normal people didn't care about legibility, maintainability, or reusability. They just wanted to get stuff done. There's still an argument for nodes and wires because the user feels like they built something...
Oh man, so much cool stuff there. I can't help but think, why have nodes at all? Code generation is getting so good that the entire graph could be generated. Typically you have nodes in a VPL because you can reuse nodes...
People who can can make abtruse technical things work. Like the computer version of preppers. Not the normies. Who just skeet away on centralized Bluesky. Where I'm writing this right now. Which feels pretty good. Maybe I'll just stay.
Against my better judgement, I'm actually going to get this to work. It'll take a few more hours of poking around Github issues and Reddit and then I'll have it running. But this is further proof that decentralization has only ever been for nerds like me...
Now, the assumption is probably that if you're going the containerization route, there's someone who has configured a container exactly as you'd like. Just go look on Dockerhub! Here's an image from 2 years ago that's almost right...
Because the atproto npm package exposes a method that reads this totally undocumented file, which I see by reading the code for the pds service. What's supported in this .env file you might wonder. Go ask reddit...
To start, it's not really Mac friendly. Ok fine, containers it is. Run the container. You have to specify S3 or files for blob storage. Oh really? How would I have known this? There's a pds.env file with a jillion variables. How would I know that?...
Decentralization of social media is a great idea. But if @atproto.com PDS' are the way, it's going to need to be A LOT easier. Spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to get a PDS up and running. It was not fun...
I don't really care how many Sigmas you are.
There is an inverse correlation between the number of accreditations in your LinkedIn bio and the probability of me adding you to my network.
I once had a conversation about automating design with a bunch of Disney Imagineers. I asked, if they could have an automated solution to design anything, what would it be? Three people, in unison, said “bathrooms.”
Using ChatGPT to parse legal docs. Translating complex language to simple language has been the only compelling use case for me with LLMs. Whether it's legal-ese to english, or english to code.
I've been working on BIM for 25 years. I still don't know what LOD 200 means.
"I know you have a free tier, but can I also try all the paid features for free? $25 a month is a little hard for me to justify to try your software that *designs buildings*."
All Hypar support calls are answered by a trained professional.
I guess Bluesky makes transparent backgrounds black?!
Interestingly, this same thing worked with Ollama calling Gemma 3:12b, albeit slower. So, what's the point of GPT5 again?
I might have finally found a use case for ChatGPT. One of my Hypar teammates told me yesterday that no one reads the docs or stack overflow any more. They just ask ChatGPT how to *do the thing*. I just tried this with an obscure git command and it worked!
Replace "code" with "model" (as in BIM), and this works for architecture as well. The worst possible future is one in which you have people generating more stuff and they don't know how any of it works. www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...
Hypar is like if Lego and Canva had a baby.
I think someone needs to make SketchUp, but for buildings.
And yes, competition is a free market’s greatest strength. Except when you’re developing a world-devouring product.
