{"id":106400,"date":"2026-03-18T13:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=f70aa2fc750b69bf6541e05275849338"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:19:14","slug":"forgetfulino-2-0-1-never-lose-your-arduino-sketch-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106400","title":{"rendered":"Forgetfulino 2.0.1 \u2013 never lose your Arduino sketch again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2026\/03\/18\/forgetfulino-2-0-1-never-lose-your-arduino-sketch-again\/\">adafruit industries blog<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: This is kind of absurd and wasteful but ... also, would have come in handy several times.<\/div><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20250929ohm-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20250929ohm-18.jpg 623w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20250929ohm-18-300x117.jpg 300w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20250929ohm-18-600x235.jpg 600w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20250929ohm-18-150x59.jpg 150w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20250929ohm-18.jpg 623w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20250929ohm-18-300x117.jpg 300w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20250929ohm-18-600x235.jpg 600w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20250929ohm-18-150x59.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Forgetfulino is an Arduino library + Arduino IDE 2.x extension by Nader Al Khatib that turns every upload into a <strong>self&#8209;contained backup<\/strong>&nbsp;of your sketch.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The repository contains the <strong>Arduino library<\/strong> (this is what goes into the <code>Arduino\/libraries<\/code> folder or is picked by the Arduino Library Manager). The&nbsp;<strong>IDE extension development project<\/strong>&nbsp;lives in a separate repository:<br \/>\n<code>https:\/\/github.com\/IamTheVector\/Forgetfulino-Extension<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Your source code is:<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"auto\">\n<li><strong>stored in flash (PROGMEM)<\/strong>&nbsp;alongside the firmware,<\/li>\n<li><strong>compressed<\/strong>&nbsp;(deflate + Base64) to save flash space,<\/li>\n<li><strong>recoverable at any time<\/strong>&nbsp;via Serial, even if the&nbsp;<code>.ino<\/code>&nbsp;files are gone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Install it once, forget about it &ndash; and still be able to recover your code months later.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">See more on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/IamTheVector\/Forgetfulino\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><em>Editor&rsquo;s note: this would be a good feature to add to Arduino. And with <a href=\"https:\/\/days.arduino.cc\/about\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arduino Days 2026<\/a> coming up soon (March 27-28), this would be good to have for everyday developers. Perhaps we could lobby Andrea Richetta (Principal Product Evangelist) and Leonardo Cavagnis (Developer Advocate)?<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a-17.jpg 400w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a-17-300x234.jpg 300w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a-17-150x117.jpg 150w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a-17.jpg 400w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a-17-300x234.jpg 300w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a-17-150x117.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgetfulino is an Arduino library + Arduino IDE 2.x extension by Nader Al Khatib that turns every &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}