My Place Is Never Cleaner Than When I Have Coding To Do That I Really Do Not Want To Do

My place is never cleaner than when I have coding to do that I really do not want to do

THIS IS THE BEST THING! Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Ouch (At 2023-May-19)

Immediate shutdown

So I had my first post become a bit popular... and so my brain decided to do the dumb thing it does, and stop me from even opening Tumblr for a week. yay!

Sometimes you just accept a flaw and move along

So I am building a robot from scratch. It just needs to be a platform for my other projects. It takes Twist commands (Basically, orders how fast to move in what directions) and return odometry (Basically, where the robot thinks it is), both over wifi via the HTTP protocol. Because the odometry math is a lot easier with stepper motors(motors that moves in tiny discreet steps. Usually several hundreds for a single rotation), these are what I am using: I am using 2 TMC2100 boards to drive them. These have 2 pins that you can set to Ground, supply or let them float, and they are used to configure what amount of micro-stepping you want to do (If a stepper motor have 200 steps for a rotation, micro stepping 4 means it takes 4 smaller steps to do one of those 200 "real" steps, and so takes 800 steps for a full rotation) All great... eeeeexept... for some reason the configuration pins just does... nothing, no matter what I set them to. The boards are just stuck at 16 micro-steps, as if both pins where set to supply. This limits the robots speed to 0.3 meters per second... which is... fine. The amount of work and money it would take to fix this(Likely I would have to buy new boards) is not worth a speed boost that is not needed for the first 2-3 projects I want to test on top of it... so I am just leaving it. "Perfect is the enemy of good" and all that... but it still feels unsatisfying... blaaa

GREAT job!!! It is... SO shit that how companies hire people is so very toxic. From all aspects. It SUCKS for the one applying, like you. But frankly, also it is bad for the companies. When I hear someone going "I did not quite know how to do a thing, and did not want to. But I knew it was important and the best way to learn is to just do it. So I did. I then learned from that experience, and have already optimized a bit, and will do more, for next time we do this", and my IMMEDIATE thought is "I want to work with that person. Hire them" Because yes, getting someone with experience in the technologies that a company uses is a nice perk. But the MAIN thing you want from a developer is how good they WILL become, and how quickly they can become good. Every job requires different tech, and even within that job, the tech will change. So it is much more valuable to get someone who can (and will) learn the new technology and how they best work it. And yet, people who have these good qualities, like you, are hidden or even sorted away via these idiotic systems so many companies use to hire people

Just did my first internship interview. I was completely undeprepared. It was rought, I stuttered and gave very vague and repetitive answers when I didn't know how to answer a question. Didn't have a cv to show the recruiter. It was a mess!! But at least i now have experience, and a renewed want to study and prepare myself better. AND MAKE A LINKEDIN. Oh god, make a linkedin. I absolutely started crying out of nervousness the second the call ended, but Im better now. I think. I hope so.