Carpentopod: A walking table project

some software for fun to generate various optimized walking mechanisms. And when I also picked up some electronics and wood working skills in more recent years, I was able to turn one of these mechanisms into an actual wireless walking wooden coffee table: the Carpentopod. Source: Carpentopod: A walking table project 木   牛流马

How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same Machine – blag

direnv is one nifty tool which lets you have different environment variables based on directories/path. The best part is, as soon as you enter into a directory, direnv does it’s magic, so you don’t have to remember that you have to run direnv Source: How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same […]

Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk | Jascha’s blog

My top fears include targeted manipulation of humans, autonomous weapons, massive job loss, AI-enabled surveillance and subjugation, widespread failure of societal mechanisms, extreme concentration of power, and loss of human control. Source: Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk | Jascha’s blog

Mental health in software engineering | Hacker News

In almost 30 years of software engineering, I came to the conclusion years ago that most deadlines were entirely arbitrary. The business isn’t going to fail if you slip a week, or frequently even six months and if it does its probably not the fault of engineering unless its so dysfunctional as to repeatably blow […]