Nice I haven’t done that one! Haven’t even touched blender in years, but I’ve gone through like 3 of his donut tutorials over the past decade or so. They’re really fun and show off how impressive the program is.

Krita is a fantastic name for a KDE drawing app if you speak Swedish. Krita means crayon, and traditionally KDE apps were prefixed with a “k”, also Rita means to draw.

Or get a keyboard (or digital piano), but hook it up to your computer via MIDI and then compose music with it.

It’s a lot nicer using a real keyboard than trying to input notes with a mouse.

The world needs more “tracker tunes” :D

It’s very unique in the CAD space. It’s almost more akin to a hardware definition language like VHDL than it is a traditional CAD solution.

You don’t ever do any direct manipulation of your model through visual tools. There is a visualizer so that you can see your model, but all changes are done via plaintext editing of the model’s definition file.

This has a lot of advantages, not the least of which is being able to version control your 3D models.

It has some disadvantages as well, in that some transforms that are easy in a traditional CAD software are a little more manual in OpenSCAD. I’ve definitely had to dust off my highschool trigonometry once or twice to get something the way I wanted it.

Specifically with regards to FreeCAD. I found FreeCAD to be a little inaccessible. It’s unintuitive at best, and I found it unpleasant to work with, as it was exceptionally fiddly. OpenSCAD feels far more intuitive to me, but I also have a software engineering background. I think OpenSCAD may be trickier for someone without that, but it’s hard to say.

It’s quite different. I’m a programmer and find it substantially better suited to my mental model than FreeCAD. Don’t get me wrong, I respect FreeCAD – even envy it a bit and all the features – but I need to imagine my shapes and describe how they fit together. I spend so much of my free time thinking of equations that product shapes (yay game dev) that it comes pretty naturally.

If you don’t program or prefer a more visual, arguably professional, workflow, you probably won’t like OpenSCAD.

That is very true. If you just want to learn it, starting even at something like basic tex may make more sense. The latex ecosystem is where it starts getting interesting though, since there’s been so much created and written for it. BUT that does mean you’re stuck in a weird abstraction area. For when I’m just making documents (and not stuck to a specific journal format), I’m really enjoying org-mode and then piping its output to a tex PDF. I think markdown would work too, but org-mode inherits all the emacs modes, so you can get some pretty complicated in-document scripting done.

You killed him! NOW IT’S JUST “Lake”!

Lmao this is fantastic, thank you.

I know you can import .midi files, it might work by exporting as a MIDI (if possible) and trying it that way?

I’ve found it it works best exporting to musicxml from finale. Musesccore and most other notation software supports musicxml, and it works recently well as s go-between.

Docker can also be run rootless, though not by default.

I think there’s probably still room creatively, especially as a hobby.

I sort of see it as the opposite with software though, that popular options are bloated data-wise (and cost) and simple usage-wise, other options are small-ish data-wise but less user-friendly. It seems like the middleground (low data+easy-to-use) is less likely to exist, particularly for techniques that aren’t as shiny/new. In some cases, it really does seem like certain workflows don’t exist. (or perhaps for some things that we’ve seen before, implementations were always in-house rather than something that existed in a usable editor)

Which isn’t to say stuff like that will be easy, maybe doable with limitation and if libraries can take you half-way there.

I definitely look to see if the wheel is already invented, but I guess I started early enough when there wasn’t a lot out there and had to make it work on my own. I totally enjoy having to hack together things and google answers (god, that’s gotten a lot harder than it used it be), so that’s also part of why I jump to DIY unless I find something that’s perfect and already made.

A recent one where I stopped myself was automating backups. I was going to try to throw together something, but then ran across restic and Backrest and wow, it’s so much better than what I could have done.

I made a roguelike for a game jam a few months ago, it taught me a lot!

I’d been making mostly text-based/UI-based stuff before, so it was my first “real-time” and “3D” game.

Also, I concur: Godot is awesome to work with :)