Things written down
The parts of a project worth writing down: the traps, the reasons behind a choice, and the things that only made sense afterwards.
Orthoshot: ten standard views of a part, in one drag and drop
When a quote needs part views, the person who needs them usually has no CAD licence. This is a browser tool that opens STEP, measures it, estimates its weight and exports ten standard views in one click — with nothing uploaded, because the geometry belongs to someone else.
Read onWhy lexical retrieval for Chinese cannot use tsvector
PostgreSQL full-text search cannot segment Chinese; the whole sentence becomes one token. So the lexical arm runs on character trigrams, fused with vector search by RRF — and then I measured it, and the win was smaller than I expected.
Read onPaper Anchor: an open-source paper reader that pins every answer to the page
A self-hosted two-pane reader for papers: every claim the LLM makes is a clickable citation that jumps back to the highlighted source on the PDF. MIT, bring your own key, embeddings can stay entirely local.
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