When I first created my dynamic Github Profile I was using a third party API for getting random messages, aka fortune cookies, but this API suddenly stopped working, breaking the profile. So I decided to write one!

The idea

For this API I got back to the source of it, the Fortune Unix program.

The strategy was create an endpoint that would execute Fortune and give it’s output as a response. Simple enough.

New year, new hobby!

For 2021 I decided to start a new hobby, electronics, and, while learning, build something that I can use within one of the other hobbies. It’s planned to be an year-long project and I expect coming back here to write a couple of lines as it progresses. I’ll bring more details into the project in a next post.

But, before actually start the main project, I needed something that could help me with the prototypes, so I started building a prototyping tool: a bench power supply capable to provide different tensions, easily accessible within the protoboards.