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In recent years, there has been huge progress in AI for robotic manipulation.

How a LinkedIn Post Led Me to a Munich Basement with Millions of Euros Worth of Robotics Equipment My LinkedIn feed has become a stream of robotics content over the past few months.

Part 2 of a series on practical robotics experimentation.

Part 1 of a series on practical robotics experimentation As part of my journey into robotics, I found myself facing a classic problem: I wanted to experiment with different learning approaches for robotic manipulation, but I needed a flexible playground w…

This post is the first in a series documenting my journey into robotics.

A deep dive into building an automated illustration pipeline for storytelling applications Introduction AI image generation has revolutionized creative workflows, but there’s a significant difference between generating a single stunning image and producing

In this post I’ll walk through how I upgraded a set of tangled Python notebooks—responsible for thousands of LLM calls—into a robust content-adaptation studio powered by: an async FastAPI pipeline, a disk-first Next.js frontend, and a small suite of custom

I have a secret for you: the first version of storylearner.app looked pretty different!

I’ve always been drawn to self-directed learning.

I quit Google at the end of July 2024 and I took a work break until mid-January 2025 (when I joined a startup accelerator full time).

In this post I will give you code that you can run yourself in Colab (or on your own machine with a GPU), that will allow you to very quickly transcribe long audios in many languages.

I have recently shut down the indie products I’ve been accumulating over the years, RIP: redeal.app - real estate investment calculator - inspired by bigger pockets, initially scraping daft (irish real estate listing website) invertimo.com - investment tr…

I am a big fan of self-directed learning, but I have never before spent almost 2 thousands of dollars on a single course.

I started writing this retrospective during my last week at Google, I have already wrapped up everything, had my goodbyes.

Okay, it wasn’t really caused by the Comic Sans.

I recently attended a startup weekend and was surprised by the backgrounds of the other attendees.

I wrote in November that I’m taking a break from indie hacking, well, the break didn’t take long (2-3 months).

I left my Site Reliability Engineering job after almost seven years.I didn’t leave Google though, just changed to another role within Software Engineering in the Cloud Infrastructure.

I’m taking a break from indie-hacking Will I never write a line of indie code again?

My micro-side project Netflix Calculator trended on Hacker News for a couple of hours and: received 8K+ page visits brought hundreds of visitors to watchlimits (my main project) caused many new downloads of watchlimits got me the first paid customer for w…

You can still use side projects to grow as an engineer without sacrificing the business success of your product.

Many products can be updated very quickly.

A friend recently asked me: “How do you find time for all your projects while working full time?”

If you’ve been in the Indie Hackers circles for a while you probably heard about people like dvassallo@ who made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling simple digital products on gumroad.

I created a digital product out of my family’s favorite tuna salad recipe and in this article I will tell you why I thought it was a good idea.

Table of contents Why use decimals?

You can now import your binance Crypto related transactions to invertimo.com (open source investment tracking app).

As far as building in public goes, it’s hard to go more public than making all the code public too!

Table of contents What is browser caching and why is it useful?

When I start new projects I try to build them with boring technologies that I used before and I try to limit picking up new libraries, tools and technologies to a minimum.

Learning and studying isn’t universally a good thing.

Table of contents Introduction Piece of API used for examples Recipes structure Only show entities related to the current user Different serializers for different methods within a viewset Add fields on the fly that aren’t present on the model Based on que…

Django by default comes with SQLite as a database.It’s a great choice for initial development and for testing,but not if you want to run multiple app servers, e.g. in a SaaS project.

I have recently built an API (for my side project Redeal) that turned out extremely slow.

I got too busy with a new job and living in a different country.