Maryanne Wachter
@mclare.bsky.social
Structural | software engineer ❤️ currently building #proceduralgeneration for RE in #Seattle, into #builtenvironment, #bridges, #OSS, #python 🐍, #localfirst, #CRDTs, cats 🐈 #emacs #climate. I like making useful things.
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🌉 bridge.watch
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🌉 bridge.watch
Nerdiest thing I have done in a while…
When you *really* want a book on Japanese and German joinery but the flat shipping cost is more than half the cost of the book, you find 4 friends to go in on buying a bunch of copies #structuralengineering
When you *really* want a book on Japanese and German joinery but the flat shipping cost is more than half the cost of the book, you find 4 friends to go in on buying a bunch of copies #structuralengineering
July 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Nerdiest thing I have done in a while…
When you *really* want a book on Japanese and German joinery but the flat shipping cost is more than half the cost of the book, you find 4 friends to go in on buying a bunch of copies #structuralengineering
When you *really* want a book on Japanese and German joinery but the flat shipping cost is more than half the cost of the book, you find 4 friends to go in on buying a bunch of copies #structuralengineering
Ballard farmers market delivering on the promise of fresh berries…
June 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Ballard farmers market delivering on the promise of fresh berries…
Surprisingly spotted in a technical bookstore (Ada’s in Capitol Hill):
AutoCAD 2021!
I couldn’t figure out the sorting system *at all* aside for sections for O’Reilly and No Starch Press.
AutoCAD 2021!
I couldn’t figure out the sorting system *at all* aside for sections for O’Reilly and No Starch Press.
June 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Surprisingly spotted in a technical bookstore (Ada’s in Capitol Hill):
AutoCAD 2021!
I couldn’t figure out the sorting system *at all* aside for sections for O’Reilly and No Starch Press.
AutoCAD 2021!
I couldn’t figure out the sorting system *at all* aside for sections for O’Reilly and No Starch Press.
✅ Laptop closed
✅ Slack uninstalled
✅ Bridge bag stuffed to the gills with goodies, including my steam deck, emacs stickers, pins, and e-ink stuff
✅ At the airport headed to NYC for the first half of Never Graduate Week before flying onwards to #pycon
Here's hoping things are on an upward trend
✅ Slack uninstalled
✅ Bridge bag stuffed to the gills with goodies, including my steam deck, emacs stickers, pins, and e-ink stuff
✅ At the airport headed to NYC for the first half of Never Graduate Week before flying onwards to #pycon
Here's hoping things are on an upward trend
May 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
✅ Laptop closed
✅ Slack uninstalled
✅ Bridge bag stuffed to the gills with goodies, including my steam deck, emacs stickers, pins, and e-ink stuff
✅ At the airport headed to NYC for the first half of Never Graduate Week before flying onwards to #pycon
Here's hoping things are on an upward trend
✅ Slack uninstalled
✅ Bridge bag stuffed to the gills with goodies, including my steam deck, emacs stickers, pins, and e-ink stuff
✅ At the airport headed to NYC for the first half of Never Graduate Week before flying onwards to #pycon
Here's hoping things are on an upward trend
Finally did my first outdoor run post injury (and since moving to Seattle) and nearly got attacked by some Canadian geese (they were just off the running path with their goslings).
My mom’s comment was: “Well they’re Canadian and you’re American.”
🫠
My mom’s comment was: “Well they’re Canadian and you’re American.”
🫠
April 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Finally did my first outdoor run post injury (and since moving to Seattle) and nearly got attacked by some Canadian geese (they were just off the running path with their goslings).
My mom’s comment was: “Well they’re Canadian and you’re American.”
🫠
My mom’s comment was: “Well they’re Canadian and you’re American.”
🫠
I tweaked my IT band after a month of dedicated running (of course...) and the cats are taking advantage of my prone state of working on the couch.
However, this mean my laptop is *in* my lap, thus occupying the space they normal would.
Does this stop them? No. No it does not.
However, this mean my laptop is *in* my lap, thus occupying the space they normal would.
Does this stop them? No. No it does not.
April 9, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I tweaked my IT band after a month of dedicated running (of course...) and the cats are taking advantage of my prone state of working on the couch.
However, this mean my laptop is *in* my lap, thus occupying the space they normal would.
Does this stop them? No. No it does not.
However, this mean my laptop is *in* my lap, thus occupying the space they normal would.
Does this stop them? No. No it does not.
April 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Snuggles (and vigorous ear cleaning) on this #caturday #MurphyNCooper
April 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Snuggles (and vigorous ear cleaning) on this #caturday #MurphyNCooper
Didn't get around to this on Friday, but the last #structuralengineer #dataviz I had planned as a draft for this project was to *finally* do an Upset plot (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UpSet_p...)
No frills on this one, but it was fun to figure out how to do this in raw d3 rather than using the library.
No frills on this one, but it was fun to figure out how to do this in raw d3 rather than using the library.
March 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Didn't get around to this on Friday, but the last #structuralengineer #dataviz I had planned as a draft for this project was to *finally* do an Upset plot (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UpSet_p...)
No frills on this one, but it was fun to figure out how to do this in raw d3 rather than using the library.
No frills on this one, but it was fun to figure out how to do this in raw d3 rather than using the library.
I also tried to do something fun with dot plots but it was too many dots for the scale (still looked kind of pretty!)
March 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I also tried to do something fun with dot plots but it was too many dots for the scale (still looked kind of pretty!)
Another quick stacked bar chart, less than 10 lines of code with @observablehq.com #observableplot
This one looks at for active #structuralengineer licenses, how "old" is the license holder's oldest license, and how many states are they currently actively licensed in.
This one looks at for active #structuralengineer licenses, how "old" is the license holder's oldest license, and how many states are they currently actively licensed in.
March 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Another quick stacked bar chart, less than 10 lines of code with @observablehq.com #observableplot
This one looks at for active #structuralengineer licenses, how "old" is the license holder's oldest license, and how many states are they currently actively licensed in.
This one looks at for active #structuralengineer licenses, how "old" is the license holder's oldest license, and how many states are they currently actively licensed in.
Compared to yesterday's visual, this plot shows is that there were a huge number of licenses awarded in those outlier years, but many of them are no longer active or are duplicate licenses.
The raw numbers for 2008 and 2021 were 1822 licenses in UT and 1333 in GA.
The raw numbers for 2008 and 2021 were 1822 licenses in UT and 1333 in GA.
March 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Compared to yesterday's visual, this plot shows is that there were a huge number of licenses awarded in those outlier years, but many of them are no longer active or are duplicate licenses.
The raw numbers for 2008 and 2021 were 1822 licenses in UT and 1333 in GA.
The raw numbers for 2008 and 2021 were 1822 licenses in UT and 1333 in GA.
Real quick #dataviz today. I took all the raw license data (~32000) entries, and plotted the aggregates by year and state in a stacked bar chart.
This is where it's really obvious about the outliers in UT and GA thanks to legislation changes.
This is where it's really obvious about the outliers in UT and GA thanks to legislation changes.
March 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Real quick #dataviz today. I took all the raw license data (~32000) entries, and plotted the aggregates by year and state in a stacked bar chart.
This is where it's really obvious about the outliers in UT and GA thanks to legislation changes.
This is where it's really obvious about the outliers in UT and GA thanks to legislation changes.
I also changed the bars to *not* display the cumulative data. Doing this showed significant spikes in first licenses granted in a given year in 2008 and 2021.
Guess what those spikes are due to?
Guess what those spikes are due to?
March 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I also changed the bars to *not* display the cumulative data. Doing this showed significant spikes in first licenses granted in a given year in 2008 and 2021.
Guess what those spikes are due to?
Guess what those spikes are due to?
The updated visualization includes all active licenses (it's impossible to take inactive licenses and "drop" them at the right time for the cumulative plot), and is based on the deduplicated data and isolating the earliest year of licensure (no double counting new licenses from reciprocity)
March 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The updated visualization includes all active licenses (it's impossible to take inactive licenses and "drop" them at the right time for the cumulative plot), and is based on the deduplicated data and isolating the earliest year of licensure (no double counting new licenses from reciprocity)
Today's #dataviz of #structuralengineering licensing data is a reproduction of a plot I made when I was looking at only a few states' data for the average "age" of a license.
The original plot allowed you to choose a state to look at their data alone.
mclare.blog/posts/is-the...
The original plot allowed you to choose a state to look at their data alone.
mclare.blog/posts/is-the...
March 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Today's #dataviz of #structuralengineering licensing data is a reproduction of a plot I made when I was looking at only a few states' data for the average "age" of a license.
The original plot allowed you to choose a state to look at their data alone.
mclare.blog/posts/is-the...
The original plot allowed you to choose a state to look at their data alone.
mclare.blog/posts/is-the...
First up (for today), building a #choropleth of the active licensed #structuralengineers in the U.S. A linear hue scaling of # of SEs makes a pretty boring map. California dwarfs basically all other states. I'm thinking I might need to normalize the data with pop density.
#dataviz #aec #maps
#dataviz #aec #maps
March 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
First up (for today), building a #choropleth of the active licensed #structuralengineers in the U.S. A linear hue scaling of # of SEs makes a pretty boring map. California dwarfs basically all other states. I'm thinking I might need to normalize the data with pop density.
#dataviz #aec #maps
#dataviz #aec #maps
Back in December, I compiled the data for all of the partial practice (AK, CA, GA, NV, OK, OR, UT, WA) and full practice (IL, HI) states, and post-processed all duplicate licenses to determine what the actual population of licensed #structuralengineers is in the U.S.
March 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Back in December, I compiled the data for all of the partial practice (AK, CA, GA, NV, OK, OR, UT, WA) and full practice (IL, HI) states, and post-processed all duplicate licenses to determine what the actual population of licensed #structuralengineers is in the U.S.
Fun things discovered in today’s #differentialdataflow learning/pairing session with shape…
#jitsi lets you do this cool overlay of sharing your screen whiteboard style *behind* you
#jitsi lets you do this cool overlay of sharing your screen whiteboard style *behind* you
March 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Fun things discovered in today’s #differentialdataflow learning/pairing session with shape…
#jitsi lets you do this cool overlay of sharing your screen whiteboard style *behind* you
#jitsi lets you do this cool overlay of sharing your screen whiteboard style *behind* you
No gif has ever summed up my week more accurately than this gif
… please send help
… please send help
March 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
No gif has ever summed up my week more accurately than this gif
… please send help
… please send help
I was going to read How To Win Friends and Influence People on the plane to the offsite, but instead I decided to download the cliffs notes (those still exist!) and read this book instead😆😬
Why yes, I am good at peopling like a normal human 😅
Why yes, I am good at peopling like a normal human 😅
February 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I was going to read How To Win Friends and Influence People on the plane to the offsite, but instead I decided to download the cliffs notes (those still exist!) and read this book instead😆😬
Why yes, I am good at peopling like a normal human 😅
Why yes, I am good at peopling like a normal human 😅
Also the cats are not taking no for an answer when it comes to available lap space, so I’m all ears for solutions
February 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Also the cats are not taking no for an answer when it comes to available lap space, so I’m all ears for solutions
I didn’t think 5 years in LA would come to a close like this. I’m fortunate to be well away from the active fires, but I’ve moved up my flight (and leaving out of SNA) to be as careful as I can.
January 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I didn’t think 5 years in LA would come to a close like this. I’m fortunate to be well away from the active fires, but I’ve moved up my flight (and leaving out of SNA) to be as careful as I can.
I'm in an infinite loop of bug fixing React hell (don't talk to me about contexts), so I did a little fun implementation of Conway's Game of Life using @foundation.rust-lang.org.web.brid.gy #rust and #wasm this evening.
December 11, 2024 at 5:37 AM
I'm in an infinite loop of bug fixing React hell (don't talk to me about contexts), so I did a little fun implementation of Conway's Game of Life using @foundation.rust-lang.org.web.brid.gy #rust and #wasm this evening.
