- A new open-source CLI tool, clipcli (https://github.com/abetusk/clipcli), was announced; it performs polygon operations with clipperlib and now outputs inner holes before boundaries to simplify laser-cutting workflows.  
- ImplicitCAD’s minimum feature size was dramatically improved from an ill-defined 0.0001 mm to ~2 × 10⁻¹⁴ mm by eliminating floating-point limitations, a change suggested to be made even more robust by banning floats entirely.  
- Discussion explored lightweight git workflows: how to fetch only commit metadata (tree hash, etc.) without downloading full objects, enabling “orphan” merges of many repositories into a single branch; git-annex was noted as a tool that already supports such lazy merging.  
- A PLOS ONE paper on scanning ultrasound (SUS) was shared, showing that the technique preserves hippocampal CA1 dendrite structure and neuronal excitability in aging mice without adverse effects (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0164278).  
- A query was posted asking for transhumanism- or biohacker-related events happening in Paris within the next five days.