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Josh Pieper
Personal blog · jpieper.comhardwareprogramming
Josh Pieper writes A Modicum of Fun, a personal blog at jpieper.com about hardware and programming. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Debugging bare-metal STM32 from the seventh level of hell”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Josh Pieper's blog for robotics project updates from mjbots and for posts on compiler codegen and debugging. One comment points readers to his work for building a bipedal robot.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Josh Pieper's personal blog: robots, electronics, and assorted projects
Most-linked posts?
- Debugging bare-metal STM32 from the seventh level of hell2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-08
What Hacker News says?
If we understand "straightforward" in the sense that small changes in the input lead to predictable and small changes in the output, then I can't see how this is reasonably true for pretty much any optimizing compiler. Just today we had this nice example on the front page where initializing a variable differently completely changed the codegen for large parts of the program: https://jpieper.com/2022/08/05/debugging-…
Comment linking /2022/08/05/debugging-bare-metal-stm32-from-the-seventh-level-of-hell/
on “MiniRust”Submitted Debugging bare-metal STM32 from the seventh level of hell as a story · 166 points
HN discussionHere are some that I've been following why working on my newsletter ( https://weeklyrobotics.com/ ). These will be mostly robotics oriented, and some of them might be inactive: * [Robots&Chisel]( http://www.robotandchisel.com/blog/ ) - a blog by Michael Ferguson, he did a very nice series of posts on restoring a UBR-1 robot and implementing ROS-2 on it * [Mike Isted]( https://mikeisted.wordpress.com/ ) - at one poin…
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on “Ask HN: What are some great engineering blogs?”Submitted Mjbots quad A0: October 2019 Roadmap (open source quadruped robot platform) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you're interested in making one by yourself, you should check out Josh Piper[1] [1] https://jpieper.com/2020/11/09/mjbots-november-2020-update/
Comment linking /2020/11/09/mjbots-november-2020-update/
on “Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning”