Details on running various tools to collect photos and videos from the command line running on a Raspberry Pi.

Yet another beginner explanation of git!

A multi part series on the so called LiteStack. People seem to be coming back around to using SQLite for their production databases. This was the way it was a few years ago but then everyone decided that SQLite was a toy and we should use Postgres. Yes, it was a little more complicated and could cost a little more but we were clever enough to figure it out. Well I like this trend to ditching unnecessary complexity (“you are not Facebook”)

Useful information for building clever robots that can locate boxes to stack up!

A thorough review of event driven architectures. Lots of actionable ideas and rules of thumb. Even thought this is from a vendor plugging their wares, there is a lot to learn here!

We use slack a lot at work. These are some helpful tips to reduce noise and increase communication. When there are four different ways to communicate (email, slack, sms, and posting to a forum) you have a lot of wasted time. Yes each way has a slightly different purpose and effect, but four are too many!

I am looking for a substitute for fideucials with ROS. I have used raspicam_node from Ubiquity Robotics and it does work but it took a lot of playing. I wonder if opencv would work better.

A great explanation of various ways to handle asynchrony in python. Basic stuff that we all should know about.

A great explanation of a fairly arcane bit of ruby.

Interesting quasi replacement for pandas (?). Worth looking into.

Another great article with ideas for using chatGPT in the classroom.

Really good idea. Try this prompt from this article: ““I am having a bit of a hard time with concepts related to early-stage financing. Please test me on the following: pre-money valuation, post-money valuation, investment size, and ownership stakes. I’d like you to ask me three questions in succession. Wait for my answer on each, and then assess my answer. Do not give me the answer, even if I ask. Instead, if I am struggling or get the wrong answer, please give me a hint. Start now with the first question.”

This looks quite interesting. I’ve been using calendly extensively for a few years. But it is kind of expensive. Is this a viable alternative?

I’ve used this before, it’s very good. But there are limits, I mean, at a certain point it is weird to reproduce in the shell all the stuff that guis were invented for. Reminds me of the stone ages before guis and windows. We used to make quite elaborate text based user interfaces, but that was because there was no other choice!

This is really interesting experiment conducted to detect cheating in interviewing. It also has a lot of thoughts about how to do a good technical interview. Worth reading.

Honestly this looks pretty awesome! Haven’t tried it yet.

I know it seems that all I am doing these days is noting servo easing equations!

Tour the force review of strings in python

One of the best explanations I’ve seen about servo hardware and firmware.