"So I Packed All The Cables I Tested Back In Their Places, After Marking Them So I Will(hoefully) Not

"So I packed all the cables I tested back in their places, after marking them so I will(hoefully) not have to do this again." WHERE??? WHERE PAST MOOSE? WHERE DID YOU PUT THEM??? I AM TOO GOD DAMN STUPID SOMETIMES!!!

Frustrations

Following other developers, learners and makers are great. It facilitates learning and gives inspiration

But one thing that is often missing from people telling about how it is going, is the failures, frustrations and problems any developer will run into.

For this reason, two of my favorite maker youtube channels are Extractions&Ire (Chemistry) and Code Bullet (machine learning). Because these madlads are brave enough to not just show their process and result, but also their failures, mistakes and errors. And how they overcome them. Not always by learning (Sometimes making a dumb mistake is not really something you can learn from...)

It's good, because it's real.

Code tutorials and guides can give the impression that the normal process of development is "Open IDE, code, fix tiny typo error, compile, success". They don't do it out of malice, but out of a want to be concise. Which is fair.

So I also want to share when things do not go so well. I have programmed Atmel's AVR Chips for quite a while now. But I have done it mostly in microchip studio(former Atmel studio) and a bit in the arduino IDE. A job I am currently applying for, uses visual studio code. Which is fair enough. So to prepare for this specific job, and to acquire this quite good-to-have skill, I want to set that up for myself First things first, since I have not done this before, I cannot know if my code would have a weird error so I want to know everything else is working first. So I write a tiny program which simply have the microcontroller increase a number every 2 seconds and write it to my PC over UART. Takes 2 minutes.... I grab one of my Arduino Nano boards and a USB cable for it. And then... I cannot flash it... Its communication protocol have troubles.

I have seen this before. It is to do with the cables not being correct. If they are USB 2.0, very little magnetic noise can cause trouble. (And you cannot tell if a cable runs USB 2.0 or 3.0 by looking at it... because the universal serial bus is not universal... Insert grump rant here) I then spend an hour finding and trying different USB A to USB B-mini cables. Give up, notes down to buy (and MARK) some USB 3.0 versions for the future. I then grab a Arduino Uni instead, as they use USB B, which is much more resistant to noise... And then spend half an hour trying to find a the cable, as I do not have a lot of them, since... nearly nothing uses them. Finally find it, and yes, the program can now be flashed. So I packed all the cables I tested back in their places, after marking them so I will(hoefully) not have to do this again. Had to take several breaks feeling depressed and grumpy, and all in all, this adventure took 4-5 hours. And now I can START on this... And this is how work sometimes is. And that is ok. It is still... VERY frustrating ...

I look up the stupid printf argument format dozens a dozens of times every year, despite having coded C for almost a decade now...

me: has been coding for 6.5 years

also me:

So I made a GUI for my parents Campsite. They wanted a GUI on tablets, or maybe a PC where they could have costumers input the needed info from them.

I can make native GUI's on WIndows, Linux, Android but… this is not the smartest way to make 95% of programs.

You just write a website in HTML, CSS and Javascript, and have all the code in 1 file (You can easily write your own "compiler" that simply copies CSS or Javascript from many files into one file if you want to work with multiple files… And yes, you can write that in HTML and Javascript too)

Here I simply take in the values as strings, sanitize and treat them, and then save them in LocalStorage on the browser.

When you type "Excel" into the first textbox, it reveals 2 extra buttons to download all the data as a CVS file that my parents can open in Excel, and to clear the local storage so the GUI is ready for the next day.

Simple, safe, easy, and will work on any machine that have a browser… meaning them all.

Forget chefs kiss. Programmers KISS is what you want :p

I was at a job interview... And the HR lady said "You are very... intense..."

I was making extra sure to do eye contact and could think of nothing to say...

So I just maintained my smile and eye contact and did a quick nod while saying "Yep"

Audhd time!

If you have adhd or autism (or both) you either have serial killer energy or easily murderable energy (This is just from personal experience from the people i know and i just immediately know which one they are)

Which one are you?

Just... Yeah...

Listen, it is not nice to call people out. Now stop blabbering and help me out. I need wheels with axils already attached so I can mount them on my robot. The software on him is a thing of beauty but apparently you need "Hard ware" to get the software to move around in meatspace and it is all sorts of bothers. /s

ok ive found some coding hashtags and they're way too wholesome. love yalls hustle but where is the chaos? the engineers that hate coding. but need it to continue going cause i have no other purpose. my blood stream is actually just bits. i want to die but not without my github on my tombstone.