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Brandon Rohrer
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Robotics and Reinforcement Learning tinkerer.
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Wrangler of algorithms for Confluence @ Atlassian.
Eater of bread. Sipper of whisky.
Reports to a Shih Tzu.
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Update from my long-running #ReinforcementLearning side project.

It uses a combination of new tools to control a simulated pendulum.
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I've been writing a weekly essay for a while now. Tech, culture, the stuff that keeps me up at night.

People seem to like it.

It's free to subscribe:

www.joanwestenberg.com
Westenberg.
Where Builders Come to Think.
www.joanwestenberg.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
* googling six seven *
How do you do, fellow kids?
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Post: Autoblocking bots and scrapers in your server
brandonrohrer.com/hosting6.html

This one also comes with code:
codeberg.org/brohrer/webs...
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
the gift for the one who has everything
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Little known fact. This is how @johnathan.bsky.social and I write our newsletter every two weeks.
November 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
#NaNoWriMo tip for breaking writers block - write the most profane version you possibly can. F-bombs every other word. Make it filthy. If you run out of content, just string together swears.
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The Offal Office
You can pay for school but you can't buy class
New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Those of you who've followed me long enough may know that I don't keep my birds in cages. And at some point I start to let them out. They may choose not to come back, but that's a risk I am willing to take if they're ready to live "on their own".

This one came back today.
November 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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that's why i made this script to automatically let me know when things break. but of course that could fail too, so there's another system that notifies me if *that* breaks. but of course that could fail, so...
November 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Automation doesn’t guarantee that the thing won’t break. Automation only guarantees that when the thing does break you won’t be watching.
November 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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a like on a skeet about a green checkmark must be INTENSE
October 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I thought a social media like was a good dopamine hit but goddamn a green checkmark on a pipeline build step is the real shit
October 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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On the one hand, I often feel like I'm just writing the same blog post over and over again. On the other hand, I feel like the resilience engineering concepts I'm writing about still have yet to be widely disseminated in our industry.
October 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
A deeply insightful post in which Lorin reprises his role as Cassandra. The curse of the systems thinker.
October 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
#stats poll
a. Bonferroni
b. Holm
c. Hommel
d. Benjamini-Hochberg
e. YOLO
October 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A friend of a friend made this and the aesthetics are deliciously DIY. If you like it, please "LIKE" it and help them win a SfN competition.

youtu.be/RCjua7f2v9U?...
Something to Savor: The Neuroscience of Flavor
YouTube video by BrainFacts.org
youtu.be
October 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
If you had told me six months ago that the tv episodes I would be sitting around waiting for each week was Peacemaker I wouldn’t have believed you 
October 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
In our house, we have a 10 ounce jar of Herrell’s hot fudge that is about to go out of date. Tensions are high. I have, heroically, picked up a spoon.
October 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
New post: Controlling IP traffic on your webserver

A cool part about having your own webserver is that you get to choose who can visit. When IP addresses try to access sensitive files or aggressively scrape, you can just block them.

Here's how.

brandonrohrer.com/hosting5.html
October 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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October 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
October 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
They don’t tell you an engineering school how much of your job will be telling the future.
September 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM