It is hard for less experienced developers to appreciate how rarely architecting for future requirements / applications turns out net-positive.

My annual letter (sorry it's a bit late this year): danwang.co/2022-letter/ This year I discuss the mountains; Jesuit dramas; a twisted logic; ideological revelry; rude nicknames; protests; becoming a barbarian; sweetgrass and banana leafs; Shanghai; and the matsutake mushroom.

Pretty crazy how the original cast of The Matrix trilogy got back together for this. youtube.com/watch?v=gnEIeV…

You should be working on hardware! caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/08/25/you…

2022: "1 TW of solar to be deployed annually by 2030". 2023: "Major Chinese manufacturers will achieve a global solar module manufacturing capacity of 1 TW by the end of 2024". pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/05/16/a-f…, pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/09/13/a-t….

I don’t often brag about what’s going in my life, but I defended my thesis today (successfully) and I’m really proud of what I accomplished

I’m really excited to announce Monumental today–our startup that was initially known as Terraform: monumental.co/posts/introduc…

Over the last 2 years, we’ve built a state-of-the-art autonomous, on-site construction stack and deployed it with real customers on the ground.

Why did we decide to work on construction? Because it’s an underrated, extremely important, and huge part of the economy. One of the few industries left that has been completely stagnant for over a century now. Lack of construction automation will become the major bottleneck to

We’ve built a platform on autonomous ground vehicles that can traverse construction sites, move around construction material and robots that can do specific construction work Our initial product is autonomous bricklaying. Bricklaying is one of the hardest trades to fill in

Behind all the hardware that makes this possible is Atrium: an incredible software and machine vision stack that fast forwards a construction site to the 21st century.

We're is at a massive inflection point today. We’re hiring across the board, looking for people for our machine shop, mechanical and software engineers, construction robot operators and various operations roles.

This is an exceptional time to join our mission to bring automation to the construction industry to create affordable, beautiful, high quality housing for everyone: monumental.co/jobs

Going to be at FOSDEM for the first time in two weeks, mostly interested in Nix and maybe some Rust!

New blogpost! "Getting into robotics as a software engineer" bou.ke/blog/robotics/

I’m really proud to announce that we've raised $25 million today, led by Plural and Hummingbird Ventures, with participation from Northzone, Foundamental, and nphard. Thanks to FORTUNE and Jeremy Kahn for covering our journey so far: fortune.com/2024/02/15/bri…

Monumental is automating housing construction with smart robotics. To all the software devs out there: joining a hardware company is extremely exciting! Join us and help making construction software defined. Looking for UX/Controls/CV, Rust/C++/TS monumental.co/jobs

Exceptionally proud of this major milestone: we built the first water retaining quay wall with robots in the world. (The sand between the buildings is going to be dug out and become a canal in the coming weeks.) I'm particularly proud that Monumental is able to contribute

Thanks to the EU 🇪🇺 for making sure I don't need to upgrade my iPhone