Choices

Today I spent the morning and a good part of the afternoon trying to develop a web interface to communicate with my home built hardware.  This was a neat new challenge where I started to teach myself a couple new programming languages (HTML and JavaScript).  I actually started on this problem yesterday afternoon and was already having some limited success using WebSocket to bridge my web page to the TCP socket connected into the main processor of my device.  Ultimately I learned that my apparent success was a farce and that I was back at square one.  However, before diving further into the problem, I had a think about the cost/benefit of the task at hand.  While this would be a nice feature to have and a cool proof of concept to demonstrate future strategies for instrument control, I concluded that there are more important ways to spend my time.  After a quick coffee break I returned to my desk to discover that my latest PCB had arrived and I spent the rest of the day populating the board.  As it was late by the time I finished soldering all the components, I decided to wait until tomorrow to fire up and test the circuits.