This is part three of a series on display consistency in embedded systems. The first two parts were technical. This one is about why the technical parts worked. The picture: ATtiny85 thermometer. Neural network inference. QUAD7SHIFT display. Built from datasheets. He had datasheets. No Stack Overflow. No libraries to install. No AI to generate boilerplate. No tutorials that abstracted away the in
I like servers. Not in a "let me spend Saturday hand-tuning nginx" way. More in a "this $6 VPS is sitting right here and could probably run half my side projects" way. The weird part is that deploying to one still feels more complicated than it should. For a lot of small and medium web apps, the app itself is not the hard part. The annoying part is everything around it: building the app getting it