Convention for compile time configuration of PlatformIO projects

Convention for compile time configuration of PlatformIO projects
Separation between code and data (specifically configuration data) is a critical concept in any development environment. Having worked a lot with the nodejs stack I found the way configuration is handled in embedded Arduino/PlatformIO projects surprisingly messy. I decided to come up with a convention to simplify this and I will describe it below. tl;dr, ...

My favorite node.js packages 1

My favorite node.js packages
I have spent the last year programming almost exclusively in javascript using the node.js framework. Previously, my client side code was written in javascript (of course) and the server side code in C#. Having different languages and frameworks on both ends required more “plumbing” in the form of code that connects the two parts together. ...