Tuesday August 11th, 2026 NCLUG Meeting

[Steve Wolf]

Bob is temporarily staying in Kansas City for healing and followup
appointments.  He'll be back home eventually. :-)

On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 5:53 PM Phil Marsh via NCLUG <nclug at nclug.org>
wrote:

> Hi Aaron, all,
> I was wondering if there are any updates regarding Bob Proulx? I hope he's
> recovering well.
> I was working in Irvine CA the last couple weeks, back now, but a very
> recent recovery from a cold means regrettably, I cannot attend tonight
> because nobody wants my cold.
> Claude is proving to be quite exciting for Qt GUI software development.
> I'm using it for developing code (Python and C++) to control test
> instruments, tube furnaces, and next data analysis via database. I strongly
> prefer to emit GUI software because I think it's far easier for the users
> who need to dedicate their time to coming up with experiments. However,
> GUIs are proving to be very complex relative to my old method of driving
> software using the command line and loading files. More complex but much
> more gratifying and fun. Also, I'm wondering about the potential of AI to
> supercharge development for open-source engineering software? I'm betting
> it could even help with coming up with algorithms to fit, for instance, a
> 2-D surface 3rd order spline to derivatives at each point, instead of the
> more common fit to actual values. That would be useful for modeling
> transistors.
> AI is fundamentally altering the methods used for software engineering and
> we live in a very exciting time!
> Best, Phil
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM Aaron D. Johnson via NCLUG <
> nclug at nclug.org> wrote:
>
>> Filling in for rwp tonight...
>>
>> Who, as David is reporting as this is typed, is currently convalescing
>> in Kansas City.  And is dearly missed.  Warm wishes and hopes for
>> speedy recovery sent toward Kansas City from everyone at NCLUG
>> tonight.
>>
>> Evelyn starts off tonight with a presentation about ATproto, a "big
>> world open social" protocol:
>>   - Identity at://DID/somethinggoeshere
>>   - Personal Data Store (PDS)
>>   - Relay
>>   - AppView
>>   - Clients
>> ATproto might be a way for interested parties to widely distribute
>> data without a centralized social network.  Much of the discussion
>> focused on the personal data store component.  Sort of an "we want to
>> publish our data to an open, Zuckerberg-free, Musk-free social network
>> information sharing system.  I am probably not doing the topic justice
>> at all, but there was some interesting discussion during the
>> presentation.
>>
>> Project is homed at https://atproto.com/ for anyone interested in
>> learning lots more.
>>
>> Did I mention it was warm in the meeting space tonight?  Citizen
>> Warren reports the room is 87degF!  (Naturlization brings conversion
>> to freedom units?)
>>
>> Stephen is sharing some real world experience with ZFS bookmarks in
>> his remote backup facility running the target server out of space.
>>
>> At this point, we are going around the room with introductions.  And
>> have a promise for a AT protocol personal data store container spec
>> file demonstration for next month.
>>
>> We are adjourning to Slyce pizza for dinner at this time.  Thanks to
>> all who attended!
>>
>> - Aaron
>>
>
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