That's what this morning felt like, hitting brick wall after brick wall and getting nowhere. To be fair to myself, I did not get frustrated; I understand that I'm lacking key skills that are needed to solve or even understand the problem. I've been…
Since I started streaming almost a month ago, today was by far the best day so far. I had forgotten how good it feels to have conversations with people interested in similar things as you. The last few minutes of the stream were spent just chatting with a couple of…
The last few days, the serenity prayer has been coming up a lot in my day-to-day observations. It started out with me realizing that I've put quite a lot of my time into wondering why people do things the way they do. This keeps bringing me back to…
I've been thinking about this for the last couple of days. In the last five or six months, I've written about a hundred and sixty blog posts, just me writing about my ideas, opinions, or something that I read that inspired me to write about it.…
The last couple of days I've noticed something interesting. There were three separate occasions where I thought I was completely stuck and would probably stay in that state for a lot longer. The first one was when I decided to write a display driver from scratch by relying…
It's a rough figure of how long I have been programming for. It's a very conservative number but one that feels accurate in comparison to my current capabilities. If I'm honest with myself, I'd say it's about right. There is…
It's not rocket science and quite a well known fact that what you eat can impact you on many levels. Yesterday I witnessed this first hand. I knew about this, but making the connection is totally a different story. I was having a great day yesterday, the stream…
You know how when you don't know how to do something, then you figure it out but you are not really convinced if you have really groked it. Which makes sense and is completely valid. So I guess I'm writing a wifi driver for the ESP8266.…