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The squash and merge button is convenient, but not the only way. As you mentioned, sometimes I do squashing locally into multiple meaningful commits. It's important that my mess doesn't end up in the main branch. Also, another approach would be creating smaller pull requests.

In my workflow, I typically commit often and use the commits as personal checkpoints. Once a pull request is ready I simply squash the commits and merge. That way, the history in the main branch is clean and I have my checkpoints. I assume that is a typical workflow for many teams.

Professionally, I do embedded and robotics, but once a year I find an excuse to create a simple web application (to stay updated). Every time, I get impressed by power and simplicity of the web technologies in general. In JavaScript those are things mentioned in the article + WebComponents. For CSS those are flexboxes, grids, and animations. In my opinion, React made a revolution with hooks and contexts. I love the direction in which the web world has been going!

This a great observation. Robotics requires a strong foundation in mathematics, control, embedded and similar, something that is unheard in typical software engineering roles. Plus, there is a "real-world effect" - if something works in simulation there is no guarantee it will work in the real-world (especially if the simulation is not properly designed). The software has to written in multiple programming languages, often minimum is C, C++ and Python. And everything stated here are software challenges, there are also mechanics, electronics and expensive equipment.

In summary, it requires more than a few tutorials to get started, it is multidisciplinary, and you have to deal with the unpredictable real-world.

Webots is an open-source robot simulator: https://github.com/cyberbotics/webots

Webots R2021a has arrived and it brings camera image segmentation among the other features: https://cyberbotics.com/doc/blog/Webots-2021-a-release

Download it now and start building deep learning applications! https://cyberbotics.com/

If you want to use Webots and ROS2 check out the following wiki page: https://github.com/cyberbotics/webots_ros2/wiki

Can we use it as an actual keyboard (plug it into our PC)?

There is OpenAI gym interface for Webots: https://github.com/aidudezzz/deepbots

The interface simplifies usage of Reinforcement Learning algorithms with Webots.

There is an article about performance comparison and Webots is way ahead of the competition: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.04627.pdf

There is a Wikipedia article comparing different robotics simulators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics_simulator

You may find a podcast with Olivier (CEO of Cyberbotics) interesting as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy75VfUg9II

The script is heavily based on the article. Full credit to the article!

For everybody interested in details, the article gives useful insights on configuration automated by the script.

I suspected that the network wasn't ready, so I configured the service start after network without much luck. I didn't go further than that.

No idea! I spent some time debugging it, but it just does't make sense it works with cron and not with systemd. Let me know if you have any idea where to look!