• **Ganzflicker visual entrainment tool** – maaku shared a web-based stroboscopic flicker generator (kerblooee.github.io/ganzflicker) that induces altered visual states; carries an epilepsy warning for photosensitive users.

• **Open-source CAD in the browser** – kanzure posted two links: gabrielcuvillier/opencascade-emscripten-port (Open CASCADE compiled to WebAssembly) and cadhub.xyz/dev-ide/cadQuery (in-browser CAD IDE using CadQuery), illustrating the push toward fully web-native parametric design.

• **Commercial fork of browser-CAD** – lsneff noted that VCs they previously spoke with have spun out “KittyCAD” (kittycad.io) to commercialize a similar browser-based CAD platform, highlighting tension between open-source efforts and venture-backed clones.

• **Evolutionary genetics paper on insect reproduction** – kanzure linked a Royal Society paper (doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.0729) on thelytokous parthenogenesis in haplodiploid social insects; fenn summarized that workers reproduce asexually (losing heterozygosity) while queens reproduce sexually, with recombination reduced only in workers—an example of division-of-labor at the genomic level.