Hi, author here. I can honestly say that I’m definitely not an expert. I tried to systematically write down questions on a text file and solve them one after the other. Solving one usually added a few other ones. “What chip is this?”, “how to program this chip?”, “do I need a development board?”, “what’s SWD?”, “how to pull an output high?” Etc. Lots of these are specific to this chip, too, so a lot of it is just reading the documentations and drilling down on libraries.
It’s something I find refreshing to read and like to state when I can: none of this was easy for me. But it was definitely fun. Having no deadlines helps. Having no practical goal and just enjoying the process was also refreshingly nice.
Hi author, nice hacking and writeup!. Nordic employee here. Note that if instead of the SoftDevice and the SDK you would've used Zephyr then you'd be able to do the same you did but with a fully open source software stack, including all layers of the BLE protocol stack. More here https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Hi. I use Jekyll and a Makefile that pushes the generated html to S3. I also needed to set up a cloudfront distribution instead of using a bare web-enable S3 bucket so I could use aws’s https certificate automation. Let me know if you need more details.
I had a similar experience with python 3's asyncio. I have worked with gevent, which has an arguably less "elegant" interface (with monkey patching, for instance), but with which it is so much easier to be productive. I was frustated for having dificulties understanding and using asyncio. The author is a better python programmer than I am, so I supposed there is really a problem there.
Thanks for the insight. It's a relatively fragile negotiation, since we're just little guys who received an opportunity to do business with a big corp.
As with the API, we implemented some integration with Salesforce and it was relatively easy. SAP, on the other hand, seems to be a different kind of beast. There's a huge amount of moving parts, which seems a little enterprise-y and complex for a tiny startup to work with.
It seems like Zapier is some sort of task automation service, which works with SAP Anywhere™ (which _seems_ to be yet another product from SAP). I'll look further into it. Thanks!
Two years ago I took a trip to the Atacama desert. My luggage was lost in the flight and the hotel manager was nice enough to let me use their washing machine.
I saw a few of the most beatiful natural landscapes I've ever seen down there, but nothing so far has compared to the feeling I had looking up to the sky while picking up my clothes from drying at night. I don't get emotional very easily, but my eyes filled up with water and I had multiple shivers at that moment. I woke up my girlfriend and we stood there like two kids for a long time looking at our galaxy.
I'm so glad the company lost my luggage.
I think there's a lot to be admired with experiences like these and can't help but feel a sense of tragedy when I know I'll never have these experiences because of my modern lifestyle choices or where I live. I often think I may be missing countless similar experiences because of my rushed city lifestyle. Interesting and something I'd like to try now.
Recently experienced the green northern lights and nothing I say will describe a beautiful and almost spiritual experience. I only suggest you try and see for yourselves.
It's always great to see these notebooks from Peter Norvig. There's also some really interesting implementations (in several languages) of probabilistic algorithms on the website [0] of the book he co-wrote on artificial intelligence. Great book and great material.
Nicely done! I wrote a small app to connect phone <-> computer and use it to control your mouse and keyboard. I've been having an extremely hard time getting users. It might be asking too much, but I would really love if you guys could share some numbers :)
