Sam Pfeiffer

Robotics Software Engineer who loves to play with expensive toys. PhD finished, yay! Python rules! And ROS is awesome!

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@Fmrico Let's... Not design many frameworks and stick to a couple of good opinionated options? Haha (more than one, competition is good, but not dozens please!)

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@facontidavide I so agree. I think, and I actually do like it (while I have a job lol), that roles in engineering will just be more multidisciplinary and more focused on delivery

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@facontidavide Now PlotJuggler is X-Dimensional? XD

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@facontidavide MemePlotter4000

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@facontidavide OcePlot?

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@facontidavide 3D and 4D! XD actually! (The favorite non-emoji from Spaniards). Great cooking @facontidavide !

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@_TheConstruct_ This is so cool!

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@facontidavide My code is better than ever, has more thinking cycles, has more implementation cycles & people spend their time in more valuable ways reviewing it focusing on what the code achieves instead of what the code is. I love this. But I guess I never was in the 1st group (I tried!)

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@facontidavide @esteve It's so funny how Rviz was the real GOAT for so long, but it got very little love, and now other tools have appeared but still lack great functionality from Rviz (like interactive markers)

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@facontidavide I mean, that's the beauty of it too, isn't it? A low hanging fruit that's been there for so many years and you addressed it elegantly!

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@roboticseabass Did you ask a LLM? That looks like the kind of thing they get immediately

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@facontidavide New convo, ask to analyze that work from your goal perspective. Maybe it made the new sqlite!

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@facontidavide Right, but there's less contrast at the same time, so I do struggle to read it a bit more

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@facontidavide Want some help adding some tests? Point to the project and the theme/area that needs them

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@facontidavide I like to think about these and other programming mantras (like about optimization) thinking about iterations. One should be able to iterate incrementally and interpret these "rules" as part of that process. If the rules slow down your iterations unnecessarily, rethink the flow

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@facontidavide Oh I'm first! With @rolandmeertens

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@facontidavide See you there too!
(I have no tweet to reference, but also got a talk accepted!)

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@facontidavide I really hope that if you need to release a next version it's 3.14.15....

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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:
https://t.co/lPPClAcvAY