This is a bit different from what I indented original to write in this blog, but I think you will enjoy it. I always enjoyed to go in places which are not necessarily popular or in tourist guides (although this one is easily accessible). This tunnel is carved in the mountain and leads to a…
Experiments with ASCII and ANSI art
If you are a bit geeky you probably already know what ASCII art means. In its simplest form it’s artwork created by using only characters. A very simple example could be the ubiquitous emoji :-). Usually those artwork will use specific Monospace fonts to make sure all characters are properly aligned. What is even more…
Creating our own status page to monitor the local network
Nothing is more annoying than having to deal with outages, and while we like to blame it on outside forces often the culprit is, sadly our own network. Troubleshooting will always follow the same steps: First by pinging the gateway router. Then if it works we ping some public IP address like 8.8.8.8. Finally checking…
Picking a random recipe for your cooking inspiration
If, like us, you enjoy cooking and you have collected hoarded hundreds (if not thousands) of various delicious recipes over the years, choosing what to eat for the week can be overwhelming. Of course, you could go ahead and classify everything nicely. But that would be a tremendous task and, here at urbanhacker.net , we…