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

One of the most common questions we get at Monumental is "how do I get into a robotics as a software engineer"? Inspired by our time at Palantir, we decided to open up a new role for Forward Deployed Robotics Engineers. The typical Silicon Valley startup advice to become an

Looking for a Christmas holiday side-project in the next couple of weeks? It's probably the best time ever to get into robotics as a software engineer. ⬇️ read on for some inspiration from our amazing team this year

New blogpost! About some of my favorite books this year bou.ke/blog/books-202… Merry Christmas!

The Economist 1843 magazine does a profile of me: economist.com/1843/2025/02/2…

What should I blog about? Robotics, Nix, random hobbies, something else?

I found a bug in Chromium this week and wrote a little post explaining it and how I found it bou.ke/blog/chromium-…

turbopuffer is generally available. petabytes in prod. turbopuffer.com

Meet Atrium, Monumental's Operating System for Software-Defined Construction! We use it to model construction sites, design walls, operate our robots, manage our deployments, and much more. 🧱 monumental.co/atrium 🧱

One question we keep getting when interviewing software engineers at Monumental is "will I be able to contribute without a background in robotics?"

So incredibly proud of the work our team has done rebuilding Amsterdam's canal walls, together with our partners at Dura Vermeer.

Why isn't there something like docs.rs or pkg.go.dev for JavaScript/TypeScript

My annual letter: danwang.co/2025-letter/ This year I discuss corgis, compute, and Cold War; the Texas State Fair; DSA; Neue Sachlichkeit; disfiguring the physical past and the end of history; Germanic obedience; Antichrist; wisecracks; Pascal’s Wager; romantasy; and croissants.

Wrote about what I read in 2025 and some random thoughts! bou.ke/blog/books-202…

Minimal NixOS systemd-nspawn containers bou.ke/blog/nixos-con…