Notes

ESP8266, MQTT & Home Assistant

State: Completed

The journey to coupling an ESP8266 to Home Assistant, via MQTT, with custom firmware built with the help of the Arduino IDE.

On Doing The Dumbest Thing First

State: Completed

How doing the dumbest thing first (and playing in the embedded world) helped me succeed in a backend development interview, and why I think it's the right thing to do when you actually get the job too.

Don't Be An Iter Hater!

State: In Progress

Provides a standard pattern for writing iterators in Go and tries to motivate some of the cases where we might choose to use an iterator in Go in place of a for loop.