Month: March 2024

literally, humming away right this moment.

the great flood of 2023 took out all my printers leaving me with just the Sovol SV04 which is the tinker device and is currently non-functional. I have been planning on getting back in the game but as usual I spent too much time over analyzing. on Friday I bit the bullet and just got the dream device.

so far this thing is pure nuts, I really don’t know what to think though, 3D printing has always been about tinkering, upgrading and almost constantly fixing. this new snandbot is almost too good, there’s just not much I need to do to it and it prints better than any printer I’ve ever had. I don’t feel like I can take pride in my prints since the settings just dial themselves in. it’s going to change the game around these parts, maybe I can actually tackle a project that isn’t an upgrade.

I say that while snandbot is currently busy printing parts for a small upgrade to itself. *sigh*, the world feels right.

opening up the garbage that builds this garbage. it’s complete amateur hour here but in the off chance anyone is curious for a peek under the hood: https://github.com/gpeterson78/snand.org

there isn’t much there yet but it will grow as I test and clean up everything before I embarass myself even more.

update- what the heck, let’s turn this one into a blog post.

this is a weirdly big step for me to open up one of my repos to the public. I’m not in any way shape or form a developer; hell, I can barely write a functional .bat file. I’m a network and/or systems engineer turned architect by trade and so most of my work has been in various commandlines, reading and writing config files for routers, switches, SANs, virtualizing everything and then automating it. eventually I got my container feet wet by taking a leap straight off a highdive with a full on build of a ‘production’ kubernetes platform. then I ran a group to build our AWS infrastructure before arriving at my current (absolutely wonderful) job.

so, I’ve never been a developer, I’ve certainly been in charge of folks are, and I’ve read a lot of code, edited some and banged out a lot of lazy admin scripts. however, nothing of mine has been seen by anyone other than tech support on the other side of the world.

so, putting this out there in public makes me feel kinda sheepish. but what else am I doing all this for, but to learn and grow and maybe inspire (I’ve got three developing nerds to set an example for). plus, it’s a good way to force myself to follow better practices (gotta stay safe and I want it to work). no, it’s not code, it’s not even devops, it’s just a collection of scripts and docker garbage that keeps this garbage out of the dump. but I’m not the kind of guy who stands still, so we’ll see what else happens.