Colin Dismuke
Engineer and runner.
Perth, Western Australia. Everything I make lands here first: photographs, short notes and found links in the stream, longer essays, what I’m reading, a training log kept for the long view, and projects at every stage of finished. More about me.
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A personal house tour catalogs designer lamps by Sapper, Noguchi, Henningsen, Jacobsen, Prouvé and others, giving each piece's history and explaining why the writer collects them despite cheaper alternatives existing.
VHS cassettes, a procedurally baked 90s journalist's room, and a Werner Herzog parody all got built in Blender by dozens of parallel Claude threads running in the cloud, orchestrated mostly from a phone, without the author writing or running local code.
The 737 Max's engine redesign made the plane aerodynamically unstable, prone to pitching nose-up into a stall at high power, and Boeing's software fix, MCAS, concealed this instability rather than correcting it—contributing to two fatal crashes.
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