For the past 20 years or so, my Super Nintendo has been sitting in storage in my parents basement in the US. This is a standard original US version of the Super Nintendo. I finally brought it back to Denmark a few months ago. When importing a console from one region to another, there are two big considerations: power and video. Power The power system in North America is 120v at 60 Hz.

When it comes to validation, I don’t like to re-invent the wheel. Many programming languages have built-in modules for common types of data, such as a URL. In Ruby, we have the URI module which is often used to generate, parse, and manipulate a URI. It has a method URI.parse which accepts a string and creates an instance of a URI. For a time, I thought this was a decent approach to use.

A month ago I received my Framework Laptop DIY Edition. Since I first heard about this laptop, I was eager to try it out as a Linux daily driver and to support the Framework effort to create a repairable and upgradable laptop. I know buying into the first generation of a new product is a gamble and there could be issues, but I dived in nonetheless.

I bought a Brother MFC-L2710DW multi-function laser printer and scanner. I bought it in Germany. When I turned on the machine for the first time it asked me to pick my country. The only options were Germany and Austria.

For the 5th generation of consoles, our mum surprised us for Christmas. I still remember the feeling of shock and amazement as we unwrapped something we couldn’t have even asked for: a Sony PlayStation. What an amazing console! We had such a blast playing that. Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Warhawk, Metal Gear Solid, and dozens more. Having a PlayStation meant that there was one downside, if you can even call it that: I didn’t experience Nintendo 64 in its heyday.

Why a brancake? For as long as I can remember I’ve been the “always hungry” type. I could eat a meal, have seconds, have a food coma, and then be hungry again. I wanted to break out of this pattern for the primary reasons of: Keeping my waistline in check. Avoiding the afternoon slump i.e. food comas. Not being a hangry monster. I watched some good videos with titles like Why diets fail and Eliminating stubborn belly fat.

Include the current application environment in your prompts.

Give yourself an alert about the current Kubernetes namespace when launching a Bash shell or Rails console.

Running Python, Ruby, and Perl from one Bash script to detect the CD-ROM drive tray status using Linux ioctl.

The Sun Ultra 24 is objectively one of the most beautiful enterprise workstations ever created. I picked one up last year but its hardware is rather dated and needs an upgrade to keep it as a daily driver. Let’s do it. Background The Sun Ultra 24 was one of the last workstations from Sun Microsystems. In their final years of making workstations they started offering x86-based systems with AMD Opteron or Intel Core 2 64-bit CPUs.