Bad inputs

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…

Should I write a Wifi driver?

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.…

Streaming; I'm loving it

I'm quite surprised with this myself. This is not what I thought streaming would feel like for me. Before I started, it was only meant to be as an experiment to see if I would like this thing. Turns out I'm loving it. My side projects…

I wrote a display driver from scratch

Finally after ten clueless days and meandering around the Internet, reading and re-reading the datasheet for the umpteenth time I'm happy to announce that I have written a display driver from scratch. The SSD1306 in particular. Most of my days were filled with doubt and angst but at…

Patience; a secret sauce

There is a difference between hearing something and knowing something. First I thought there was only one secret sauce to the game of life. To work harder. Turns out there is a second one, which I've totally overlooked. Patience. It's obvious and also not so obvious…

This shit is painful

I'm quite new to this whole complete honesty with myself. Accepting truth as it arises forcing myself to face it. I can see why I've decided to look the other way for a lot of things. This shit is painful. It's generating a lot…

The struggle is real

You know that awful feeling you get when you are learning something new and you are trying to do the most basic shit? At some point in the last few months I decided to face them more often. It felt like a wise decision at the time, it still does,…

I've wasted quite a bit of my life

Couldn't sleep last night, which is quite unusual as usually I'm fall asleep a few minutes after my head hits the pillow. After an hour of twisting and turning, I got up and went to the couch. As soon as I got to the couch, a…