life

NOTE Am I a tech nerd who blogs about technical stuff? YES! But do I have a life? yes. This post is not technical, and I will only continue writing this format when I feel like it. Scroll down if you wish. A long time ago… When I was 11 or 12 or so (back in 6th grade), I had one of the most amazing math teachers ever. She was great at her job, but most importantly, every time the class and her had an interaction everybody would burst out in happy laughter; there was never one negative moment in that room....

Foreword Yes, this will take you very long to read because this really should have been 5 parts. These reading time calculations are also quite messed up. Not my fault, click away if you don’t have patience :p Recap As of the last post, I was on day 2, right before the lunch break. I had just (almost) finished writing my article display, and I am now ready to start connecting the API....

Intro & Recap As of August 1st, I have been quite busy over the past few days. I went out with friends, and a lot of new hardware parts arrived, such as SOIC-8 clips (that I had to assemble), my T440p keyboard (finally!!), and other such things. This explains why I haven’t uploaded part 3 yet, but here it finally is! Some source code examples might deviate from the actual source code at https://github....

Recap If you haven’t checked the first article out, please do here. This article will cover mainly the events on day one, along other appropriate stories fit for this article. Source code shown is in the state that it is in right now (i.e. the complete app). I only set up git later on in the development process due to time reasons. Some components may not be explained, that is to be expected....

Why? In the student homebase representative group chat, there arrived a message. A certain message leading people to visit a certain site. That would be this. This would be a hackathon. An event where programmers (or non programmers) (foreshadowing) would come together and code in teams while competing with other teams to win prizes and recognition from other programmers in the event. Usually, one would have to pay for these kinds of events, but this one was actually free....