Robotics Software Engineer who loves to play with expensive toys. PhD finished, yay! Python rules! And ROS is awesome!
London, England
Joined October 2011
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Yesterday I gave a Deep Dive session on my Cppyy_kit (awesomebytes.github.io/cppyy…) project at #ROSCONUK . It was a great fun session where we spent a while going beyond the topic and we discussed what the future of software, libraries and frameworks may look like now with AI
I gave a lightning talk in #ROSCON 2025 showing a cool shebang trick to use #pixi and Cppyy to run self contained python scripts that call C++ code. Find the examples in that I called Pixibang:
github.com/awesomebytes/pixi…
The only reason vibe coding exists and works (up to where it works) is thanks to the high quality (and quantity!) open source projects in the world. Just a little reminder to love open source (and if you can give back or contribute) :)
I made a thingo, frustrated by downloading images and being in webp format which can't be processed by a lot of programs, I made a little JS client-side image converter (to/from WEBP/JPG/PNG). Maybe someone else finds it useful awesomebytes.github.io/webp_…
youtu.be/0SRVJaOg9Co
The new Figure 02 robot looks super cool (interesting neck cloth cover), but it still has the typical ZMP (Zero Mess in my Pants) walk. I had high hopes for a more dynamic cool looking walk!
Very complex hands also.
@facontidavide any expert comment?
Have you seen and do you believe this? @facontidavide m.youtube.com/watch?v=AePEcH…
Sad to see Foxglove stopping their Open Sourcing. I understand, but I had hope on their technical approach and the community it was building (even though I still use Rviz for many visualization duties), becoming the default visualizer for a lot of people. foxglove.dev/blog/foxglove-2…
Interesting link/read that follows up: github.com/orgs/foxglove/dis…
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See this post. Summer internships in GPT and OpenCV and in NeRF. Must register with Google (no obligations) by this Monday, by 9pm Pacific time. See the linked in post.
linkedin.com/posts/activity-…
Awaiting for @facontidavide to be awake to maybe see my PRs (github.com/facontidavide/Plo…) for #PlotJuggler to allow starting it skipping dialogs and plot live straightaway from the command line or a launchfile. Sorry for the hack!
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Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time — introducing QOI, the Quite OK Image Format. 300 lines of C, single header library: phoboslab.org/log/2021/11/qo…
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This is so f*cking cool!
xitter.cf/Elzo_/status/145594993…
UTS has some interesting PhD scholarships in quantum computing: uts.edu.au/research-and-teac… accessible for local and international students! (Until 26 August only!)
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Alberto Gines Lopez of #ESP is the first ever #SportClimbing Olympic champion!
He takes #gold in the men’s combined final!
#StrongerTogether | #Tokyo2020 | @ifsclimbing
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Activision lawyers going to the doorstep of cheat makers and providers is super cool
Activision lawyers going after SBMM Warzone is eh
Activision lawyers suing a Warzone which was out before their own is gross
It's too bad Activision lawyers can't figure out anti cheat
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"cat", short for "C++ Analysis Tool", is a command line utility designed for analyzing a C++ program and displaying which lines of code are potentially unsafe
Example:
![>>> cat main.cpp
int buf[10];
buf[12] = 0;](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyyXAX7WUAcFDB8.png?name=orig)
ALT >>> cat main.cpp int buf[10]; buf[12] = 0;
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I am looking for a PhD student (UK/EU resident) at UCL, Department of Computer Science, to work on "Legged Robot Locomotion for Monitoring of Hazardous Environments". Email me for details ([email protected])!
Details in the pdf: rpl-as-ucl.github.io/opening…
