Today I’ve learned that the MAME emulator project did a cooperation with the Internet Archive, Texas Instruments and HP to create software replicas of historic pocket calculators. The result is the Calculator Drawer.

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Recently, I noticed an increasing frequency in which I get presented with Captcha requests. In part, this might have been caused by me switching browsers or reinstalling my laptop. But still, thanks to their annoyance factor, it felt like I was getting more of them than in the past.

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When someone on Mastodon asked for help with a Ruby question, my friend and business partner Markus kindly referred them to me, knowing that I’m always happy to help other Ruby developers. Their question was about executing Mastodon code from a custom script. In this post, I describe how I solved this problem using the Rails console and a custom subclass.

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It’s been a while since my last weeknote. This is a good sign that not only I have better control of my tasks again, but also that there’s been events and insights worth writing about in the first place.

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Following up on my recent post on ngrok, I found an interesting alternative via @shakalandy’s newsletter. Bore presents itself as “a modern, simple TCP tunnel that exposes local ports to a remote server, bypassing standard NAT connection firewalls.”

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This month, a new intern from Spain started at my company. While we used to use Macbooks for our interns, he was the first to get a Linux laptop. Nothing fits the DevOps use case better, after all.

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I just finished the first round of my weekly Linux Shell Workshop which I’m teaching live on my Twitch channel. It’s been a lot of fun, and getting direct feedback from people who are new to the topic and find value in it felt great.

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I don’t think I ever copied more vim or zsh configuration from anyone than from ChrisAtMachine. Looks like I found a soulmate. 😊 His YouTube channel is well worth watching!

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Not counting IoT devices and the Raspberry Pi in my PiDP-11, I haven’t had a Linux machine at home for more than 10 years. End of last year, I decided to get a dedicated Linux box under my desk again so I can enjoy the full Linux experience when I do software and infrastructure engineering.

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Well-structured status lines in vim and shell prompts with version control symbols are a nice quality-of-life improvement. Unfortunately, not all monospace fonts come with the necessary PowerLine glyphs. For example, my favourite font is Operator Mono, and it too doesn’t have PowerLine symbols built in.

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