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…
So tired, so what?
It's day nine since I've been waking up at 0400 and I yet to be able to function at a full capacity. I get the feeling like I'm only half awake most of the time. On the bright side I've been able…
Missing the path for the pinnacle
Almost did not stream today, and I know why. I'm understanding myself better. It was because I was doing something I always have been doing, to stare at the mountain and miss the path in front. It's important to have a sense of where you are…
Off by 7
Was trying to figure out why only four lines were printed on the display as I was writing the driver this morning, took me a whole hour, re-read the datasheet like ten times only to realize that I made the hexadecimal rookie mistake. I was printing 0x01instead of 0xFF and…
Drivers are easy but they are a lot of fun to write
It's been about five days since I've started working on the display driver for the SSD1306 and I'm quite happy with the progress so far, I have to say. Today I finally managed to write pixels to the screen, although the output was not…
Got to display to turn on!
Finally, I've managed to get the display to turn on. Only took about five days. I would have never imagined that just to turn the display on, you'd need to know so much. Then again, it's my first ever driver for hardware. I'…