<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>hitgavin — long-form</title><description>Essays only. No notes, no link shares.</description><link>https://hitgavin.dev/</link><item><title>Gravity doesn&apos;t matter for joint PID tuning</title><link>https://hitgavin.dev/posts/gravity-and-joint-pid/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hitgavin.dev/posts/gravity-and-joint-pid/</guid><description>Posture changes the gravity torque on a humanoid shoulder by 16 N·m and the stability margin by 0.018°. Here is why that is exact rather than approximate — and the one place gravity does bite.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>