Reusing paralel port cables

Posted on October 8, 2016

Not so long ago I ordered preassembled ESP8266 based Wifi module, it is of ESP-01 form factor with a male pitch connector that can be readily used with Dupont wires. This board exposes serial communication pins, the minimal 4 control pins, GPIO0, GPIO2, CH_PD and ReSeT and VCC, GND of... [Read More]

Git branch in your bash prompt

Posted on September 30, 2016

Today while googling for answers to question ‘How to check if Git is installed from bash’ stumbled upon this stackoverflow question How to check if Git is installed from .bashrc. Having branch name in your bash prompt seems like a great idea especially if you are using git... [Read More]

Of course it can be written in Kotlin

Posted on May 14, 2016

… so I was recently revisiting websites related to UNIX-like operation systems that contain information about various BSD OS-es, what cought my attention is that I have almost forgotten that NetBSD project has this screaming motto “Of course it runs NetBSD”, but not without reason ;) . NetBSD... [Read More]