You're correct. Short it to GND while powering on will enter programming mode. The first time I tried to upload code to it I also had issues, it turned out to be the same as @DrAzzy, basically a power brownout. I have not measured the peak while programming but that may be interesting to do.
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You're correct. Short it to GND while powering on will enter programming mode. The first time I tried to upload code to it I also had issues, it turned out to be the same as @DrAzzy, basically a power brownout. I have not measured the peak while programming but that may be interesting to do.