Momo Nine
Adam's CADAM Turns a Sentence Into Editable OpenSCAD — In Your Browser
Adam's CADAM (YC W25) turns plain English into parametric, browser-based OpenSCAD you can export, edit, and Git. A hands-on PAZ tutorial for AEC makers.
Every Flat Map Lies — Jason Davies' Gallery Shows You Exactly Where
Clone D3's d3-geo-projection and Jason Davies' map gallery — a hands-on cartography tutorial on projection, distortion, and façade unfolding for AEC pros.
The Fat Kitten That Wasn't: What a Fake Mistral Model Tells Your Office About Vendor Lock-In
Mistral's viral fake "Le Chaton Fat" model exposes a real AEC risk: AI you can't run yourself. Why open weights matter for BIM workflows — and one fix today.
Gerrymandle Teaches the One Skill Every Floor Plan Secretly Needs: Connected Regions
Play Gerrymandle, then rebuild it in NetworkX. A hands-on tutorial on contiguous-region partitioning — the skill behind districting and floor-plan zoning.
Make Your Own Website: The Plain-HTML Stack That Still Opens in 2070
A hands-on PAZ tutorial: build a website from one hand-written index.html with VSCodium — the durable, vendor-free stack that still opens decades from now.
openBIM Grows a Spine: Porto's Hackathon, Zurich's Governance, ISO's New Compatibility Policy
openBIM's first hackathon, Zurich's Domain Conference and ISO's IFC Compatibility Policy line up: the standard finally has practitioner-grade rails.
Grasshopper isn't the problem — your practice lacks the system behind it
Architecture practices have no Grasshopper problem — they have an organization problem. PAZ analyzes the Build/Buy/Contract trade-off for parametric workflows.
Vibe Coding for parametricists: What Karpathy's method really delivers — Fibonacci-texture test
Karpathy's vibe coding in Grasshopper: what LLMs deliver for AEC parametrics, and where domain knowledge remains essential.
Rhino ART Certification: The Case for Teaching What You Already Know — Before Someone Else Does
McNeel's Authorized Rhino Trainer program is a $295 credential that converts tacit Rhino/Grasshopper knowledge into a teachable, searchable, monetisable asset for AEC offices.
openBIM Grows a Backbone: Porto's Hackathon, Zurich's Governance, ISO's Compatibility Rules
Porto's openBIM hackathon, Zurich's governance push, and ISO's new IFC compatibility policy — three signals that turn openBIM into infrastructure.
