I've been lurking HN for a while, and this time I'd like to give something back to this awesome community :)

I'm Michele, and I'm just another Software Engineer. I recently felt in love with micro-controller programming, as I started building tools interacting with my home-automation systems (mainly to optimize energy consumption by getting and processing data from / to photovoltaic inverter and heat pump using the KNX protocol to talk with other devices).

I knew nothing about this field, and at first I was confused by the amount of information is available online (I mean, should I go with ESP8266, With ESP32? What's a NodeMCU then? And what about the ESP-12E.. or ESP-12F?).

I've embraced the ESP8266 fully, as it's tiny, fast enough, has wifi built-in and.. it's incredibly cheap! I used to make stuff with the Raspberry Pi, but it quickly becomes expensive when you need more of them around, and it's a waste of power for most of the projects I'm dealing with.

I recently decided to start a small website to share the knowledge I'm gathering during the process, and even though it's pretty minimal and features a bunch of articles, I'm keen to get some feedback from you guys to make sure I'm on the right track (I'm regularly adding new content).

Honestly, I like the idea of keeping it extremely simple (and fast!), and I think other tinkerers like me will benefit from having a repo-like website for quick snippets that typically we search over and over again on the web.

Also, I try explaining the code step by step, so that even beginners can understand it easily.

So.. you hackers out there, take a look at it, ad let me know!

Ah, btw, it's cookie-free, analytics-free, ads-free and affiliate-marketing free :)

Thanks for checking it out!

https://esp8266code.com

P.S. [Meta-information]: the website is made with zero frameworks with just a bunch of shell scripts building static pages on my private VPS. I even implemented a 90's vibes cgi script for the search function (I'm toying with the idea of making a blog article about it as well.. let me know if you're interested)