Thanks gentlemen... after soldering the GPIO0 jumper back and forth about 50 times in 2 days trying to awaken the ESP8266 with the 0v50 firmware in all its variations, I tried the 0v25 version as you suggested. It's counter-intuitive but it worked immediately! Now I can finally turn off the solder station and write some JavaScript :)
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Thanks gentlemen... after soldering the GPIO0 jumper back and forth about 50 times in 2 days trying to awaken the ESP8266 with the 0v50 firmware in all its variations, I tried the 0v25 version as you suggested. It's counter-intuitive but it worked immediately! Now I can finally turn off the solder station and write some JavaScript :)