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Cornell University researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal “metasheet” but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawl. The robot’s versatility is due to a novel design based on kirigami, a cousin of origami, in which slices in the […]
11 Sep 2024 • 1 min read After pairing with Tony Robalik on a recent weird behavior I was seeing in Gradle, we encountered a deliciously evil bug in Gradle. It’s documented a little in Gradle 8.7’s release notes (see Better API for updating collection properties), but the basic premise is below. abstract class MyTask […]
In 1927, Belgian physicist Georges Lemaitre had arrived at a startling realisation about the Universe. Using Einstein’s then cutting-edge theory of General Relativity, Lemaitre was able to work out that the farther a galaxy is in the Universe, the faster it will recede i.e. distant galaxies would appear to be moving away faster than their […]
For a very long time, the Establishment (civil and military and mostly non-Baloch) has looked at Balochistan as a monolith. Balochistan is not a social, sociological, religious and political monolith, and hence needs different and nuanced policy formulation, calibration and implementation. Sociologically, the northern Balochistan including Quetta and surrounding areas including Kuchlak, Ziarat, Gulistan, Chaman, […]
The recent announcement of the CM Honahar Scholarship Programme 2024 for undergraduate students in Punjab marks a significant step towards promoting accessibility to higher education. Valued at Rs7 billion this year and backed by a substantial seven-year budget of Rs131 billion, the initiative aims to help 30,000 deserving students in the region during the life […]
It’s capitulation, to say the least. The government’s tendency to repeatedly cave in to the IMF’s pressure is now costing it its sovereignty. The decision to accept the Fund’s condition – that no new special economic zones or export processing zones will be established, and tax incentives already availed by the existing zones will not […]
This year, we had the exciting opportunity to participate in Google’s Season of Docs (GSOD) 2024. GSOD is a funding program designed to support open source projects to allocate technical writing resources to improve the documentation for their project. One of our key goals as part of this program is to drive an increase in […]
I plan on reworking one or more of my portfolio projects. What I have in it now are projects I made in a certificate course and now that I've learned a lot more about WCAG and have learned of more common design practices I want at least one project that showcases that more. Would creating […]
Over this summer we worked with the nice folks at Scott Logic to test drive their new Tech Carbon Standard framework for helping organisations make sense of the environmental impact of their digital estate. We’ve contributed a case study to their open source website, detailing our experiences and workings, and in this post we share […]
ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Wednesday withdrew its decision to give a quarter of a billion rupees to a private foundation for an infrastructure project, which it had earlier allocated in a non-transparent manner while using the inflation-bitten taxpayers’ money. The government had allocated funds for The Noorani Foundation (TNF) without setting any criteria and […]