Intro The last post has been a while back. Sorry for that. I was busy with daily business and also the implementation of the terminal got a bit stuck. Now I’m back on track and can feed you with the latest development news. The backend is only half way towards a complete...
How Terminals work Maybe not all of you know what goes on behind the scenes when you launch your Terminal. The term “terminal” is from the 1970s (or even earlier) Wikipedia: Computer terminal. At this time you had a real terminal device that was built in a way so that the...
History From time to time I have to maintain servers, connect to Raspberries or access my Synology Diskstation. All this is done via SSH connections. On Windows I loved to use an app called MobaXTerm for this. It has some really convenient features. From getting a glimpse...
History In the past, when the hardware was much more limited than today, the software for that hardware was a monolithic binary containing everything. The (embedded) OS, the drivers and the application itself. The embedded operating systems evolved and introduced things like...
As the decision to buy a MacBook has settled the next step was to select what MacBook to buy. Normally I like to have a notebook in the 13” range as it is portable and when used at home I always connect an external monitor to it. My previous device was a Microsoft Surface Pro...
Having the perfect machine for development and also for stuff I’m doing besides development (Web browsing, online banking, Netflix, …) is always a thing I strive for. As most of you will do. A special thing about the “dev machine” (and also about my mobile phone) is something...
This is my nth attempt to start something like a blog. The last attempts all ended with me not writing anything. This time I try to force myself to do so every week. Regarding topics here I think you can expect mainly software development related stuff. Embedded SW...