As you know, my main role is an Embedded Software Developer. This requires a certain skillset. These skills include different operating systems, different programing languages and some environments. Rust is a new language that can be used in embedded systems, and it has been on my TODO list for a while. I think the time […]
Category: Engineering
A temporary e-mail from your terminal: tmpmail
tmpmail is a command-line program that can create temporary email addresses for you to hand over places in order to avoid spams and protect your identity. The tool uses 1secmail’s API, with the help of curl, jq, and w3m.Once it is installed, the tool has options to generate a new temporary mail address for you […]
How to Work from Home Effectively?
Remote working is a brand new concept for most of us. At start, we were all mumbled and dazzled adjusting ourselves to it. Now, we are kind of succeeding it. But, how to be more effective working from home? It’s hard to keep your focus on, but here are some tips to help you: Draw […]
How to Remote Develop or Debug over SSH Connection?
While developing code for a different machine, either a huge server or a tiny embedded host, you’ll need to develop on a remote environment. Your connection of choice probably will be SSH, and here is how to develop in that setup. You have two different choices in this setup. First, you can develop locally and […]
How to Pipe to or from Clipboard in a Bash Script?
Using a clipboard is a habit of graphical user interfaces. Although it is possible to do anything you want in a text-based terminal, old habits die hard. So is there a way to use your clipboard, by either filling or emptying it, in the terminal in a FIFO? xclip There is a way to achieve […]
How to Install Packages to Offline Ubuntu or Debian Machines
We all face this problem time to time and it becomes time consuming for the packages that have lots of dependencies. Downloading, copying and installing one-by-one, and by hand is nearly impossible for these packages. So, here’s what you need to do for installing packages offline to your Debian or Ubuntu machine. In a Machine […]
What is DMA?
Direct Memory Access is an infrsatructure used for communications between CPU memory and hardware. The advantage of it over regular IO is, while using DMA, CPU is mostly not a part of the communication and thus the transfer is not consuming much CPU cycles. That changes focus of the CPU cycles away from IO operations, […]
Remote Host Identification Has Changed Warning – how to solve
When you’re trying to connect a remote machine via ssh, if you’re getting the Warning: Remote Host Identification Has Changed, here is why and how to solve it. Seeing this error for the first time may be pretty frustrating. However, do not panic and try to connect again because you will fail miserably! See the […]
Few Python Interview Questions for the Ones Looking For a Job
Hey! I am Onur. Sorry, I was away for a while, but I’ll make it up to you with a pragmatic post that may help you to lend a better job. So, here’s a few Python interview questions for the ones looking for a job! By the way, I’m warning you, they are just junior […]
13 Programming Habits You Need to Pick Up for Being a Better Developer
Programming is not that hard. Unless it is a pioneering area, almost every engineer can code solutions to a given situtation, but in different qualities or timings. Your performance depends on picking up the best habits you can as soon as possible. So, I’m giving a list of good habits for a programmer that I […]