Own it by wanting it

The Joe Rogan podcast with Guy Ritchie for me is one of the best conversations I've had the pleasure of coming across, which I've listened to a couple of times now. Its strange how you can read a entire book, yet miss the essence of it.…

The positives of putting yourself out there

It's strange how much I tend to focus on the negative aspects of a scary thing, maybe in the hopes that I can scare myself out of doing it. I'm alway pleasantly surprised by the positives that I never consider. Why spring this out of the…

Finding joy in the seemingly mundane

Firstly, thank you for the inspiration Kupajo | A premiere internet dorkboard. I'd highly recommend this site; it's got tons of gems, like this one. This last week I caught myself saying, this work is so boring. It is true, most of the work had become easy…

The joys of despair

This is so strange, and it's happened to me three times this week. First, when I was working on making interfaces work in Zig, then while I was trying to test a complex piece of Go code for a client, and then today when I was trying to…

Invisibility is freeing

Most of the work I do goes unnoticed. For the longest time, I took it personally. At the same time, whenever I looked back at the work I put out there, most of it was just garbage. It's not a bad thing. It allowed me to evolve my…

My past does not matter

There is a kind of freedom in knowing that. I, like everyone else, have a past. If you're breathing and alive, you have a past. I've been holding on to these stories for too long, in the hope that maybe they make me special. All they…

Never thought I'd say this, but I miss errors

For the last month on stream I've been working on an embedded program. The first part of writing a display driver went down pretty smoothly, call it beginners luck or whatever but I was like, this is a lot of fun. Until I stumbled upon the ESP-01S, which…