daniel

@american_tall Hey - my order was placed on 4/29, and I got a shipment ready notification on 5/8, but it still looks like the package hasn't been picked up by USPS. What gives?

@american_tall what's going on with your shipping??? I placed an order on April 29, got a notification that my order was packed and ready to ship on May 8, but nothing had moved yet! Status still says the order hasn't been picked up. What gives???

the URL in the link goes to a 'convert click mail2' address, so maybe its just that?

not sure if its my office filters overreacting or if there's something wrong in DNS or something like that, but wanted to let you know. congrats on the new community and thanks for all your great work!

@pattvira Hey just wanted to let you know that when I clicked on the link for pattvira dot com slash spark in your newsletter, my office web filter said it was not secure, then blocked it for being p_rn

@AlSweigart @nostarch Lol, now I want all those books!

I asked ChatGPT to give me a list of 100 books by @NoStarch, and it got... weird.

#AECtech Scripting in Rhino 8 with @pyrevit's Ehsan!

@bimpure Aw man, I had a good Dynamo script for that.

Read our full review here: bimpure.com/blog/best-new-…

New Revit 2025.3 update is here! One of the highlights: recenter room tags

I'll be attending for the first time this week. Looking forward to learning some new things and meeting some like minded technologists!

@nostarch I've never been disappointed by a No Starch Press book! Have at least 6 in print and another 30 or so ebooks (thanks @humble !)

Food for thought: If your publisher’s not helping you craft a great book, you’ve got a printer, not a partner.

@Pixel0Symphony @fx_hash_ @bantamtools I actually just bought a set of 65 different colors of Stabilo Point 88 fine liners on Amazon's prime sale the other day for $40. Previously I'd only bought them individually, so I'm excited to try literally all of their colors.

@d_ho__ @fx_hash_ @bantamtools Thanks, Daniel! Excited to see what you plot. These are run of the mill fine-liners tbh 😁 it’s quite hard to find a lot of variation in color, so I’m often on the hunt for fine-liners and came across these at a stationary store. Happy to look up and tell you the exact brand 🙂

A plot from ‘Appearance and Being’ as the series evolved. Jan 2024. Fine liners on mixed media paper. Plotted on an AxiDraw.

A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.

@tvaziri Love the bugle playing from the RV

This is wonderful. SHOT FOR SHOT REMAKE - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Opening Scene youtu.be/uv3Jwbvv1uA?si…

@AlSweigart I really want to know who the one person is that found the review helpful...

I, uh, I'm not sure what to make of this 1-star review of my book, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python.

For context: I hate the whole media hype about supermoons and concurrences with astrology / calendar related things like blue moons and harvest moons. We don't need these stupid labels to say that the moon is awesome! Just go look at it! Who cares if it looks 10% bigger!

#AstronomyQuestion : Why does this graph of distance of the moon to Earth (from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon) show much greater variation in the perigee than the apogee? Roughly 10k km vs maybe 2k km?

@AllenDowney why do you have the 'continue' within the 'elif car == "B" ' portion? that's throwing off the results, since 1/3 of the simulations aren't adding to either switch or stay? in fact, doesn't the entire '# choose monty's behavior' portion not affect the outcome at all?

Monty's theorem: all disagreements about the Monty Hall problem can be resolved by writing a simulation, and ONLY by writing a simulation. colab.research.google.com/drive/16M2_Afi…

I got one of my favorite emails this morning: "The analysis of the Monty Hall problem in your book is wrong !" Well, my friend, your brain is in for a long ride -- let's get started...

@gurump @nicocatellier I actually made my own tool in #pyRevit to do I think essentially the same job as @nicocatellier's new tool, but almost certainly less refined ;-) github.com/bger-dhoward/N…

@gurump @nicocatellier We use these types of things all the time to do internal notes and studies. Its especially useful for the people actually doing the work figuring things out and developing solutions to have a way to keep some sketch lines / notes in the Revit model as they're working.

New BIM Pure plugin tool soon: Ghost Markups 👻 Text, detail lines and other 2D annotations with a specific prefix name won't print or export to PDF. This is similar to the Defpoints layer in AutoCAD. In this example, all red annotations don't print to PDF.