- kanzure floated the tongue-in-cheek idea of seeking NRA sponsorship for “gene guns,” framing them as an educational extension of firearm technology (“you can also shoot bacterium!”).  
- Tachyon` reported current use of ZX-Spectrum-specific assemblers (Basin, Devpac) and interest in the cross-platform z88dk toolchain for Z80 development.  
- kanzure shared the fully reverse-engineered Pokémon Crystal source (https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal) and complained that the rgbds assembler “really blows” and often fails to build it.  
- sandsquid.com was noted as a new service that ingests CAD BOMs and sources parts, though fenn observed it ignores shipping costs, limiting its optimization value.  
- OctoPrint (http://octoprint.org) and PrintToPeer were highlighted as web-based 3-D-printer front-ends; sbaugh and kanzure debated whether 3-D printers should ever be forced into the CUPS printing-system model.  
- kanzure vented about the difficulty of writing cross-platform Python bindings for BRL-CAD owing to its inconsistent default installation paths on Linux, macOS, and Windows.  
- Lemminkainen used paperbot to retrieve the Nature Reviews Immunology paper “doi:10.1038/nri3520” via LibGen, illustrating the channel’s routine use of automated paywall evasion.