Communicating in the modern world. Can we stop it please?

Every company must have an “About us” or “Who we are” section. And in there they have to put empty words from the HBR. The easiest way to do this is list values. Deutsche Bank set a good example by having 31 dense pages describing their code of conduct. The Deutsche Bank who in 2017 was fined for assisting Russian money laundering, who in 2017 agreed a settlement for their key involvement in selling mortgage back securities, who in 2015 were fined for involvement in the Libor rate scam. I’m not anti-capitalism, its the open lies that are so irritating.

Running ROS in LXD containers

I’d been following ROS tutorials and wanted to try out moveit but found it wasn’t ready for ros-noetic yet. I found linux containers as a convinient way to run different versions operating systems that the different libraries need.

Quick setup for Neovim and C++

For some reason, setting up Neovim and adding C++ support took me ages, so I decided to write it down.

A (soon to be) Great Open Source Solar Investing Platform

I complained before that sustainable finance is too much hard work. I think Yale may be building something that could fix it.

Radical Markets Proposal for Gitcoin Hackathon

I wrote my first ignorant thoughts on Open Source financing here but still gave the Gitcoin hackathon a try because coming up with some more practical suggestions is perhaps better than the idea that Open Source can’t be free AND profitable.