Anthony Cowley
acowley.bsky.social
Anthony Cowley
@acowley.bsky.social
Functional roboticist. Robots, Haskell, Rust, nix, emacs, FPV… and the rest of life, too.
This raises the question of if the writing can be too good.
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
That `const` performance cliff is brutal!
October 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Reposted by Anthony Cowley
Tested various version in my shader, interesting how it becomes fully pathological when simply adding a `const`: gist.github.com/vassvik/621c...
October 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It often feels like the hole software is digging for itself is inescapable as security concerns keeping offering shovels with which to dig deeper. It's surprising (to me at least) that sandboxing is so hard!
October 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Yeah, I agree. I do sympathize with the desire to have visibility into what’s going on to help with estimates and availability, but I also think ever increasing visibility goes from diminishing returns to bureaucratic quicksand while tricking managers into thinking things are steadily improving.
October 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Related, Boston Dynamics released a nice video on their current gripper design. Great to see folks challenging the reign of vacuum grippers! youtu.be/gS4rOqNDTBk?...
What's in a humanoid hand? | Boston Dynamics
YouTube video by Boston Dynamics
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October 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A corollary that plays a large role in my life philosophy is that a lot of successful papers are successful because of good engineering. People looking for silver bullets will be disappointed.
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I’m referring to the initial rollout when my impression was that export of passkeys from one manager to another was not complete.
September 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Congratulations, what an amazing fit!
September 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM