Category: General

Next version of VSCP & Friends will be Sodium 1.1.0. A reactive son of a bitch.  Yes rock’n roll even. Soon in a computer near you.

Source: Announcing Ionic Lab for Windows! | The Official Ionic Blog

CLOUD-ST25TA – Evaluation board for ST25TA series, STMicroelectronics, CLOUDST25TA02K-P

Source: CLOUD-ST25TA Evaluation board for ST25TA series – STMicroelectronics

And I like very much what I seen so far.

I am a programmer. Yes a musician to.  But most of all a programmer. Yes for sure. No question about that.

At Friday last week I started to do a reversion of the REST interface of the VSCP daemon.  Nothing strange. I do that all the time.  A fast reversion. A day to fix.

Today, Tuesday,  after working on this, including the  weekend,  since then, I am still at it.  And I will be the rest of the day. At least.

Oh well. Nothing strange. Life of a programmer. In this project I have been at it for fifteen years.

The question is why? The fix I spent so much effort on the last couple of days will hardly be noted by anyone.  Is it worth it?  Is it worth the time I could have spent on other things? Is it worth the money I spend to keep this going, money that I probably never will get back?

I don’t know. But I will continue. Life of an open source programmer. Stupid people.

Ask questions, share knowledge, explore ideas, and help solve problems with fellow engineers and TI experts.

Source: How to get started with current sense amplifiers – part 1 – Analog Wire – Blogs – TI E2E Community

Source: The Official Contiki OS Blog: Contiki 3.0 Released, New Hardware from Texas Instruments, Zolertia

In another blow to achieving diversity in tech, Chinese startups have started hiring “programming cheerleaders” to spur on their mostly-male developers.

Source: “Programming cheerleaders” hired in China to motivate male developers – JAXenter

Comment from the Frog:

Well I don’t know what to say…