A desire to work harder

About six or so months ago I was totally stuck in life and work without knowing what the next step forward was. Everything that needed to be done looked like mountains. So I had a realization to do the bare minimum. The easiest thing I could do. To my absolute…

Getting out of my own way

Not proof read. Written two minutes before going out for a couple of beers with a friend. Not sure if I have written about this before, but this morning during the workout with my friend, she mentioned how a simple switch in mindset over the course of the last few…

Encoding for fun

This morning I finally finished the encoding part of the base 64 encoder that I was writing just for fun. It was a lot of fun, it was the first time since I have been programming that I got to do some bit manipulations like shifts and working with hexadecimals.…

Never been so excited to see blinking LED's

Took a bit of time to setup but I've successfully run my first embedded program in Zig. It's a simple program that blinks the LED's but I was pumping my fists in the air for a good five seconds. The smallest things can give…

Embedded programming time

This is something I've always wanted to do, but never did anything about. Probably because did not know where to start. Recently I came across Micro Zig which was the push I needed to finally commit to it. Mainly because it narrowed the hardware for me. I'…

Not all features are like the others

Just finished building the document view for my product. This one took about a couple of working days but I'm quite proud of the end result. The requirement was to allow for a folder structure just like on desktop. At first I wasn't sure how I…

Lost

I can't be the only one but I kinda dislike this time in limbo, where I don't exactly know what to do with my mornings. Every morning I like to pursue something that I haven't before, it's also a reason to get…

Chop wood, carry water

Occasionally some gems show up in hacker news, ones that make you want to read it more than once. Today I found this one. It was nice to see a stranger on the Internet who things the same way as you do. The reason I write is for me, it&…