S4A, or Scratch for Arduino, is an app that you can use to program Arduino boards using Scratch. You can program robots and LED’s without writing any code: all you need to do is drag and drop instructions in the visual programming environment.

The container ecosystem is moving rapidly. A lot happened in 2019! It seems the container ecosystem has arrived at the “consolidation” stage of the hype cycle:

So, I’m having a problem with my laptop. When I’m using the “TelenetWiFree” connection, I get disconnected after a certain amount of time, and for some reason I cannot reconnect until I restart my computer. Toggling the hardware Wifi kill-switch, which lets you disable and enable the power to the wifi hardware, does not resolve the problem. After re-enabling the hardware, the wifi doesn’t seem to come back again. Only a reboot makes the Wifi work again…

I got a ticket to the Pragmatic Docker Day meetup in Ghent in exchange for writing a blogpost about it. Free food, drinks & awesome talks for a whole day, who would want to miss that? Not me!

Let’s rid the world of one of the most prominent Linux myths: “Desktop Linux sucks. It’s just not there yet”.