N_A of Moles

Quadratic Form of a Skew Symmetric Matrix

While reading some control theory books or papers you may stumble onto expressions like the following:

$S$ is a skew-symmetric matrix (i.e. $S = -S^T$ ) so we have $X^T S X = 0 \space \space \forall X$

With no demonstrations whatsoever.

Automating your Now page with Hugo

A week ago on Hacker News someone shared their setup for an automated /now page. Their idea was nice but I felt like they didn’t take full advantage of Hugo. This is how I reimplemented some of that functionality in an alternative way.

Hugo rendering 2024: Github Pages vs Netlify vs Cloudflare Pages vs Render vs Vercel

Given the various choices of hosting for your static files you may be unsure which one to pick. These are the features and performances of the top four services with their free tier.

How to setup ROS Noetic in WSL through Ubuntu 20.04 Focal

Guide for Matteo Matteucci’s Robotics class at PoliMi

Scope: to install the environment needed for the labs without having to deal with Docker or dual booting in Ubuntu.

Target: PCs running Windows 10 or up supporting virtualization.

The dire state of MathML support

What is the state of MathML in 2023? Can we finally use it and forget about MathJax or Katex for the time being?

Static Preload

A simple method to calculate the static preload in a lumped body multi Degrees of Freedom system

The unrequested GIF

While developing my GIF shortcode for Hugo I stumbled upon a weird behaviour from various browsers.

Enable DoH when Chrome is managed

For whatever reason your browser is locked out from changing the DoH settings? Here is how to change the settings if you have admin permissions.

Hugo rendering: Github Pages vs Netlify vs Cloudflare Pages

Given the various choices of hosting for your static files you may be unsure which one to pick. These are the features and performances of the top three services with their free tier.