Hello. My name is Benjamin Richner and I'm a software engineer from Switzerland. I'm interested in video game design, music, philosophy, computer science and maths. This website serves as a blog, a contact platform and a little hub for my projects and things I care about.
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I am responsible for the reliability of the firmware updates on our devices and this work never gets boring. The thing about firmware updates is that by definition, every bug is caused by the updater because before installing the affected version, the bug was not present. You could say that updates are the cause and…
Right after getting my degree, I was lucky to be hired into a small but decent R&D department as an embedded software engineer. My first task was to create a Unit Test project and have it run in our build pipeline after compilation. I was not particularly excited about this task, it seemed like busywork to me. I…