FreeCAD 1.0 is out! The improvements to the Sketcher workbench are huge. Of course the headline features are the "topological naming problem" mitigation and integrated assembly workbench (but I haven't tried the assembly workbench yet). Also, new logo! Congrats to the team and contributors.

I've mostly used Windows 11 on my desktop for the last two years, but I've dumped Fusion 360 in favor of FreeCAD and I recently found out that most of my Steam games can probably run in Linux, so I don't have many applications tying me to the platform.

Taking a little break from Mastodon due to my home instance being down for several days 😭

I needed a new router for my home network, and I saw a suggestion that OPNsense may be a secure, flexible open source option. After spending several hours reading about routers, access points, OPNsense and OpenWRT, I decided not to try to build my own router for now. But my curiosity persists...

I'm working on a little program in Rust, which I am still learning. I used impl on an enum this evening and I was very pleased that it worked.

my favourite post from another site, i give you the non-interactive css colour picker:

I recently got these decals I ordered for my dance pad. The process to draw them was overly complicated and the detailed Blender-rendered lighting on the metallic arrow outline mostly just looks gray. But! I'm still very happy with the result.

Hello BlueSky!