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I've been DM'ing randos on LinkedIn for lightweight consults and found that offering to pay up front and asking strangers to price their own time can help to show seriousness and o…

I'm making drones from scratch with a buddy, each one costs ~$2000+ to build and they incur damage from test flights. I hold down a 9-6 software gig to cover our costs, while my ma…

I'm new to embedded systems programming and looked into ROS recently, without using it, while figuring out a minimal software stack for a UAV project (px4 over ArduPilot for the fl…

I read this at a poetry evening recently, to much laughter. From Titus Plautus, a comic playwright, we have an early example of a rant about disruptive technology or - possibly - a…

After uni I joined a FinTech with ~200 engineers and strong employee reviews. Like many grads, it's my first full time job in software, which makes it hard to gauge how good or bad…

I think the alternative to having a social life "dictated by a machine" (a machine which, in this case, encodes the intentions of its programmer) is to have a social life dictated …

I'm preparing a ≈20min talk about opportunities in software to give at a London school with students aged 14-18. I want to give insights into the software industry which are releva…

I was on a gap year after an MEng in Computing when covid lockdown v1 hit the UK. Unsure what to do with my life I watched Downton Abbey with my parents and baked lots of banana br…

> If you like doing it, you do it. This attitude seems to overlook that there can be a tension between present and future fulfilment. There are things you can do (or avoid doing) n…

Which MAA book are you referring to?