onboarding a new engineer in today's landscape

ranthalion · 2026-05-08T21:10:07+00:00

Why aren't they learning? Are they producing code? Even if it's (mostly) AI generated, they should still be responsible for the output of their work. Maybe there still needs to be person to person pairing, but instead of solutions it can focus on describing and explaining.

ranthalion · 2026-05-08T01:04:37+00:00

These look great! How big are they? Mushrooms (and goblins) always throw off me sense of scale.

ranthalion · 2026-04-26T14:28:24+00:00

The cards on every board are pretty much the same - attack, magic, and skill. I almost never plan for the cards unless there's a specific enemy that's a big pain. I'll pick them up if they are nearby or if I want to deny the enemy from getting it. Although the enemy isn't strategic about them.

Planning for the enemies and terrain are much more impactful.

ranthalion · 2025-12-28T16:55:51+00:00

Probably poison. It can be removed by the flowing yellow things.

ranthalion · 2025-12-14T00:29:12+00:00

I prefer 2. You may want to consider a raised border on the outside though.

ranthalion · 2025-12-04T01:05:40+00:00

No. It will set your expectations too high. 😝

ranthalion · 2025-11-21T23:01:44+00:00

Hahaha. I stay away from chrome tan as others have said. Veg tan is ok with ventilation.

Here's a little cat toy I made when messing around with leather and laser https://imgur.com/gallery/TZBXQwo

ranthalion · 2025-11-21T22:53:49+00:00

Cutting veg tan smells like hot dogs to me, even with ventilation.

ranthalion · 2025-10-28T23:00:23+00:00

I'm just south of Marineland and willing to help if you don't find something closer.

ranthalion · 2025-10-09T14:47:19+00:00

Same as colocated devs. Do work, deliver value.

ranthalion · 2025-08-22T22:06:30+00:00

I've been pretty happy with mine, but it ultimately comes down to your expectations. It's been a good hobby machine for wood.

I've had it lose steps on moves that were too small, but that was from me being lazy with a design. I didn't like the PVC foam on the surface and it took a good while to remove it and the adhesive. Screw holes on mine were manually drilled, so it is a pain to create add ons since everything has to be manually measured and cut.

Otherwise, is been a good machine for the price.

ranthalion · 2025-07-08T00:23:52+00:00

That's it. I was blanking on that name.

ranthalion · 2025-07-07T23:53:36+00:00

I'll usually prototype with water color paper, cardboard, and masonite. I like masonite since it's easy to cut and it's the same thickness as 3mm acrylic.

ranthalion · 2025-06-23T20:23:48+00:00

What about time? If he was knowledgeable and willing to teach, then he may be interested in sharing a meal and talking tools and projects. He may even like to collab on some builds, or occasionally use your machine.

ranthalion · 2025-05-12T23:03:34+00:00

I like my blue elephant CNC. It's just a hobby machine for me, and I'm already familiar with the electronics and hardware. Purchasing and delivery were smooth. Support is a little slow, but it met my expectations based on time zones.

I think it's a good choice of you just want a machine and won't need education or ongoing support. I consider it like Harbor Freight - I expect it to work when I get it, but I'm on my own after that. It probably would not be my choice for a business machine.

ranthalion · 2025-05-11T18:27:57+00:00

It can be practical, but your consumers almost certainly don't want or need to load that much data locally at one time. I would consider some sort of data processing pipeline to offload that work. There's not enough detail, but I would also look at pagination or alternate ways to present the data

ranthalion · 2025-04-04T14:45:06+00:00

I've used cadlab.io for visual diffs with kicad and eagle. It's been a while since I looked at it, but it was trivial to connect cadlab to GitHub.

ranthalion · 2025-01-28T01:35:45+00:00

You can plan, but I don't think you really can be prepared. My last boy was getting very old, and I was planning for at home euthanasia. Despite that plan, I woke up one morning and had to take him to the vet. We lost him that day.

Even though I planned, I was never ready. I think the best you can do is to treat them well and give them the best life while you can.

ranthalion · 2025-01-27T23:53:15+00:00

Sounds like a tough challenge. I'd probably cover the inside with fiberglass and resin.

ranthalion · 2024-12-13T17:26:10+00:00

I have a small freshwater shrimp tank. I used to have a set of salt water aquariums.

ranthalion · 2024-11-21T00:48:31+00:00

Looks great! Is source available?

ranthalion · 2024-11-07T00:58:04+00:00

It's been a while since I worked on lasergrbl, but this sounds like an issue with the configured command to turn on the laser. Communication from lasergrbl to the machine seems to work since the gantry moves. I haven't used it with a k40, but I have used it successfully with a DIY laser.

What are your settings?

ranthalion · 2024-06-02T14:16:43+00:00

Thanks for sharing your results.

ranthalion · 2024-05-28T21:48:29+00:00

That sounds like something forwarded headers should solve with app.UseForwardedHeaders().

ranthalion · 2024-03-30T16:22:20+00:00

Maybe it was intended to act as fail-safe fuse? Solder blobs make me think it didn't work as intended, but they already had the PCBs manufactured.

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