Nicholas Bering

Staff Engineer with @MedStack. Open Source Contributor. Blogging at building a rover at

[Nicholas Bering @nickbering]

Test drive successful! @SawppyRover has a sister, Star!

⭐️ 🤖

[John Resig @jeresig]

In 2013 or so I realized that my Twitter experience was an echo chamber and I went out of my way to find people who weren't like me. Artists, historians, scholars. People who are LGBTQIA+, folks from other walks of life. It completely changed my world view.

[Nicholas Bering @nickbering]

Motor mounts assembled. The tricky bits are coming up, now. I didn’t get the electronics set up yet, but need to get the motors engaged to center them.

[Nicholas Bering @nickbering]

Working on the snap-fit eyeball mold kit designed my Will Cogley (Nilheim Mechatronics).

Prints are complete!

Blue: Snap-fit holder for casting.
Red: Holder for painting (fits in a drill chuck).
White: Eyeballs. Will be painted.
Black: Blank for the eye-lens mold.

[Nicholas Bering @nickbering]

Starting work on assembling the actual animatronics mechanism, now. Assembly of the push roads that actual the eye rotations complete.

These specialty gabby servo tie rods ends are kinda neat.

[Nicholas Bering @nickbering]

@cornazano It was honestly not the developer’s fault. People tend to get confused easily for code that involves a lot of dates.

Date/Time is a complex domain all by itself.

[Nicholas Bering @nickbering]

@cornazano So the test case was passing, but based on out-of-spec values. And since it was implemented test-first, the feature ended up with a bug.

What I took from all this: Refactor the design to make the tests easy to follow.

[Nicholas Bering @nickbering]

@cornazano “Handbook” is a deceptive title. It should be the “Cambridge Compendium of Meeting Science.” Or “The Mighty Tome of All Things Meetings.”

[Nicholas Bering @nickbering]

@cornazano It turned out to be a bit thicker than I expected. At first I thought, “Typical academic book price.” But when I got it, I was like, “😲Ok. That’s actually a bargain.”

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

In my travels, what I see is that AWS and GCP customers are largely selling things to companies that sell things to other people. More customers == more usage.

(Though really, it's more a function of "how many engineers did they hire" that drives the cloud bill. Shhh!)

[Nicholas Bering @nickbering]

My 8yo is a genius. I couldn’t find my screwdriver anywhere!

She suggested, “Did you try retracing your steps? That works for me sometimes.”

Turns out my screwdriver was sitting in the box with my tap set, which I was using at the same time, and they got put away together! 😲

[Nicholas Bering @nickbering]

@cornazano Do you have the name of this paper?