mechanismatic

Michael W. Moss | michaelwmoss.com

Writer, maker, and designer. Writer of fantasy, cyberpunk, science fiction, steampunk, horror, and hardboiled noir fiction. Typeface/font designer. Maker of 3D printed, laser cut, and microelectronics projects. Friend of cats and crows.

Waterproofing PETG prints?

13d 10h ago in 3dprinting

Prusa published an article about it: https://help.prusa3d.com/article/watertight-prints_112324

Skulljack #1 - Cyberpunk Web Comic

1mon 6d ago in cyberpunk@lemmy.zip from michaelwmoss.com

That is part of the aesthetic, but I've included alt text on the images and a toggled transcript button under each image for accessibility purposes.

Fun with laser cutting and airbrushing dye today!

1mon 21d ago in leathercraft@lemmy.ca

I laser cut stitching holes in vegetable tanned leather for a ren faire bag last year using a Glowforge 40W laser cutter. It turned out really well. It's significantly easier than punching the holes by hand.

Great ideas

1mon 25d ago in witchymemes from piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone

They also like cat treats. I provide both. Some of them at my work prefer cat treats and look at me with a tilted head when I toss a peanut and just stand there waiting for the treats.

Here's a link to his blog version of the same thread I referenced. Seems like a hop issue among other stuff.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/14/compartment/

Doctorow recently said on Bluesky that the reason he's such a prolific writer is that he's constantly in pain and sitting down to write is an activity that helps him ignore it or get through it. So he said that's why he wrote 7 books during the pandemic.

I posted this on Bluesky last year from a hacker conference:

"Was talking to a guy yesterday at #Teardown2025 about cyberpunk since he saw my author's copy of The Big Book of Cyberpunk. He said he gets depressed reading dystopian stories. I said I feel the same way when I read the news."

https://bsky.app/profile/mechanismatic.bsky.social/post/3ls57r7dq622d

A Day in the Pre-Internet World, as Understood by Someone Born in 2002

3mon 10d ago in newyorker@ibbit.at from www.newyorker.com

Pre-web, not pre-internet technically. Everyone on the bulletin board system read about the pantsing and the knowledge is immortalized on the logs until they're purged in a software update or the hard drive dies or IBM compatibles overtake the Commodore 64 market, which will definitely never happen...

Crows Of Downtown

3mon 23d ago in crows@lemmy.ml from pixelfed.social

Crows Of Downtown

3mon 23d ago in Crows from pixelfed.social

Or Linda Hamilton's in Terminator 2, except literally.

It's a partnership and the INDX isn't a separate printer, just a new extruder, so it's not like Prusa has no involvement. I would say "completely" is inaccurate here. If it were solely the effort of INDX, they wouldn't need to partner with Prusa. There are other third parties that release mods for printers that aren't collaborations with the original manufacturer.

If Prusa hired the INDX engineers from BondTech instead of partnering, would you still consider it completely separate? A company is just composed of current employees. At what point is it Theseus' ship of development?

And that's not even considering the CORE One, the recent CORE One+ update, the CORE One L announcement, the OpenPrintTag, et al. They've been announcing more new stuff in the last year at a faster rate than previous years.

Rabbit of Caerbannog Moss Terrarium

5mon 28d ago in imadethis@lemmy.zip

Deceivers

5mon 29d ago in fungus@slrpnk.net

Deceivers

5mon 29d ago in mushrooms

Stick Decoration

5mon 29d ago in fungus@slrpnk.net

Stick Decoration

5mon 29d ago in mushrooms