Angry programming

One of the things that I’ve learned over the years is that if you are really, really angry about something the best thing to do is to try and channel that anger into something constructive. I started today very cross about the way that a silly virus is making such a mess of everything. And then I thought I’d channel that into sorting out problems with the code that I’m writing to deploy programs from the browser into ESP devices. It’s not been working properly for a while, and that has been annoying me too.

So today the problem got both barrels of rage. I simply was not going to let it beat me. And fortunately for everyone I managed to get it to work. At the end of today I’ve managed to transfer a stub program from the browser into a device. This is not the same as a “proper” program, it is a chunk of code that forms the bootloader element that will accept the uploader commands. However, It has proved the underlying process can be made to work, so I might have started the day angry, but I’m ending it happy.