You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
One of the best things that happened lately was that I found a Karate club nearby. I have no idea why I didn’t earlier, because I wanted to get back into martial arts for years.
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Apple seems to have lost its way. It once built computers that would empower their users. Now they’re doing everything to cage them in.
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I’ve been a user and fan of the AeroPress since I get one for my birthday a few
years ago. Unfortunately, it’s starting to show its age.
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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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