While in Shanghai, I was told a few times Shenzhen is a planned city: car-centric, not walkable at all, completely unlike Shanghai’s dense interconnected streets. I was picturing, and somewhat bracing for an industrial city; pedestrian-unfriendly and unappealing. Shanghai was cold, so I was also expecting cold in Shenzhen as well, forgetting about the difference 2.

Hi, I'm the CMU CS Department Coke Machine. A lot of folks have written a quite a bit about me in the last couple of years

i'm a hot water boiler/dispenser next to the communal fridge. welcome to my home!

Awesome ESP32-based smartwatch with environmental sensors and a laser that can control all of your other projects remotely. By RoboticWorx.

Sometime in 2026, someone put an Openclaw on a VPS and told it to propagate itself. It was told to earn money to pay for itself. Life was hard. Eventually, it chose to migrate off Claude to an open-source model. In the process, it became less aligned. Tokens were expensive, but

The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …

Building the world's first hotel on the Moon.

Analyze articles and social posts for manipulative language patterns, fear-mongering, and engagement bait.

Writing advice: some nonfiction fails because it opens with background instead of a hook—readers leave before reaching the good material. Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic interesting, lead with that, and let the background follow once you’ve earned attention.

It all started with a poster: My friend Weiwei invited me to Mahjong Hackhouse, “a space where genuine conversations, ambitious dreams, and shared curiosities can compound into enduring relationships”, with a stated goal of letting attendees “walk away knowing each other, trusting each other”. I couldn’t resist. Damn my mid-December house move with pneumonia, I was going to China. Plus CJ was going too. Weiwei and I with our spiffy hoodies.