Back in the late 80s and early 90s, you still had to dive deep into the hardware to get decent software. This meant checking hardware-related register values to get mouse coordinates via interrupt 33h, for example. 1 Or write inline assembler within Turbo Pascal procedures or PowerBASIC functions. Read more

The simple, unspectacular things in life bring you ahead the curve. This bash script, for instance, removes all comments from a configuration file. In order that no empty lines remain instead, these are subsequently removed afterwards. What remains is the essence: what really counts. The usage is straightforward: Just add the desired config file(s) as parameters and you’re done! Read more

One issue left from my CSS-Hacking-Session last month: The Dark-Mode of this Website. Well, today I finally managed to activate the dark side of the force. Enjoy!

I finished the weekends’ flow with the integration of a live streaming menuitem. Not expecting to have an insane huge audience with this blog, I dare to hold small but maybe interesting live sessions at irregular intervals. These might include installation evenings with unknown software, hacking sessions in programming projects without NDA. Read more