nick cline

Robotics, Linux, C and Sim, building automation one skill at a time

[nick cline @ifnickthenrobot]

holy cannoli

[nick cline @ifnickthenrobot]

@burgeoisiee I love my amazing mk3 supra even though it has its own fixable issues, I don't have the wing tho (yet)

[NASA @NASA]

Moon joy [noun]

the feeling of intense happiness and excitement that only comes from a mission to the Moon

The Artemis II crew bring us endless Moon joy.

[nick cline @ifnickthenrobot]

@TroutTeeth YES I wanna buy the splashdown print!

[nick cline @ifnickthenrobot]

@ninajirachi WOOHOO

[nick cline @ifnickthenrobot]

boston robotics is back??

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We worked with @Ginkgo to connect GPT-5 to an autonomous lab, so it could propose experiments, run them at scale, learn from the results, and decide what to try next. That closed loop brought protein production cost down by 40%.

[nick cline @ifnickthenrobot]

@NoaDalzell that was such a crazy game

[Jake Nations @nayshins]

everyone showing off their crazy vibe coded claude orchestrators

[nick cline @ifnickthenrobot]

I do 2-3 hours of deep work but instead it's just reading the classics

[Abhishek Singh @0xlelouch_]

If you:

1. Do 2-3 hours of deep work with notifications off and one clear outcome (ship a feature, fix a perf issue, close a bug cluster)

2. Write code daily, but also read code daily (your codebase, open source, PRs) and learn how good engineers structure systems

3. Get strong at debugging: logs, metrics, traces, reproducing locally, bisecting, writing the smallest failing test, then fixing root cause

4. Learn one core backend topic every month and apply it at work (SQL indexes, query plans, caching, queues, concurrency, rate limits, idempotency, timeouts)

5. Write design notes before big changes (tradeoffs, failure modes, rollout plan, observability) instead of rushing into implementation

6. Improve one system every quarter (reduce p99 latency, lower error rate, cut cloud cost, simplify a service, remove a cron hack)

7. Communicate like an adult: crisp updates, clear PR descriptions, asking good questions, and documenting decisions so others do not suffer later

8. Build a small project on the side that teaches you real things (auth, payments, rate limiting, background jobs, CI, deployments)

9. Protect your health because this job is long-term: 8k-10k steps, strength training, and sleep so your brain stays sharp

10. Save and invest consistently, because financial stress makes you a worse engineer and a worse decision maker

Believe me, you are ahead of most of the software engineers!

[Low Level @LowLevelTweets]

🚨BREAKING 🚨

📷 Zohran Mamdani will FORCE all New Yorkers to learn the Rust Programming Language

"The days of memory corruption vulnerabilities are behind us, and we as New Yorkers must unite to push into the future of software"

[nick cline @ifnickthenrobot]

if someone sponsors a month of Claude code for me, I'll spend the big snow weekend creating the finest slop ever seen on this app

[nick cline @ifnickthenrobot]

Tesla is a pretty weak robotics company compared to the competition, if we're making comparisons then they're a motor company

[DVB @DeepValueBagger]

I love the concept of "Find a a company that is miscategorized".

$TSLA is not an EV company, it's a robotic company.
$IREN is not a Bitcoin mining company, it's AI infra.
$RKLB is not a space launch company, it's space end-to-end company.
$INTC is not a PC chip company, it's a fab/design/chip company.

[nick cline @ifnickthenrobot]

vnav is great!! took this a few years ago

[Ilir Aliu @IlirAliu_]

A full MIT course on visual autonomous navigation.

If you work on robotics, drones, or self-driving systems, this one is worth bookmarking‼️

MIT’s Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles course covers the full perception-to-control stack, not just isolated algorithms.

What it focuses on:

• 2D and 3D vision for navigation
• Visual and visual-inertial odometry for state estimation
• Place recognition and SLAM for localization and mapping
• Trajectory optimization for motion planning
• Learning-based perception in geometric settings

All material is available publicly, including slides and notes.

📍https://t.co/HxdJKYIgsf

If you know other solid resources on vision-based autonomy, feel free to share them.

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[nick cline @ifnickthenrobot]

@NoaDalzell wow what a historic day

[roon @tszzl]

Ender, that’s wasn’t just data labelling. that was a real Waymo fleet you were driving!!!

[nick cline @ifnickthenrobot]

accepting name recs for my new machine

[nick cline @ifnickthenrobot]

furutua pendulum on main!!!!

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

Engineers created this robotic arm to balance the wand no matter what

[nick cline @ifnickthenrobot]

@hthieblot @fdotinc small-scale robotic arm: bldc actuators, positional encoders, and modular motor drivers and controllers in a small side-of-desk form factor. ideal for low-power, compact research and development work.

[nick cline @ifnickthenrobot]

@vaxryy we love hyprland