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.…
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…
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…