Learn how to type!

With the end of 2021 just around the corner, I took the time to reflect about some of the things I’ve deliberately practiced in the last couple of years and one of them definitely stands out: Learning how to touch type properly. Although I’ve played around with computers pretty much my entire life, my typing skills were not really great (about 40 WPM at best) back in 2019. It was during a Computer Architecture class where I observed a colleague with really great typing skills and asked him about it. He mentioned that he practiced using a website called TypingClub and by looking at him typing the results really showed. ...

December 29, 2021 · 2 min · Flavio Miyamoto

Embedded Systems are awesome!

I’ve just finished my class of Embedded Systems in my university and I have to say, it was an awesome experience. As a guy that really likes low level stuff, understanding how a micro controller works internally to get to the point of running an actual Real Time Operating System (RTOS) was really enjoyable. Let’s go through some of things you can learn while studying Embedded Systems :D Bare Metal? We all have to start somewhere and that’s bare metal, running code without an actual operating system behind it. ...

September 4, 2021 · 8 min · Flavio Miyamoto