Console experience for Winchester Games

Dec 17, 2023

An experiment to bring consoles’ Ready-to-Play experience for retro 9x gaming, effectively transforming Winchester data into a game cartridge for DOSBox Pure.

SM37 as ALV

Dec 2, 2023

SMX transaction displays your own jobs in a pretty ALV, filterable and all the good gimmicks, but SM37 is stuck in the past. Well, it was, but long time ago it evolved and no fanfare nor red carpet was available for announcement. Yet you probably didn’t knew until now because it is a rather non-trivial way to enable it and the only official documentation is scattered through Notes 589568 and 730451.

Spring Tech Cleaning: The (not so) epic of Talos

Nov 7, 2023

This year’s tech spring cleaning I did a very needed software upgrade on a private server, due its installed OS (RancherOS) reached its End of Life two years ago (2021). Time to move on to a new container-centric OS. After some fine-print reading, I chose Talos for the task.

It's a dynamite: PNPM

Oct 9, 2021

NPM drains storage space rather quickly when installing dependencies. It may not be a concern for you but is a thing that bothers and busted me once while working on a remote workspace with storage quota.

Short Circuit Fiori Launchpad bits: Turn it into a daft WebApp

Mar 23, 2021

Fiori Client removal from app stores was a buzz few months ago, big enough to make SAP rethink about its phasing out plan: postpone removal date, change distribution channel from (manual) ONE Support Downloads into a Managed distribution through stores (some business steps involved, but easier easier for common employees install on device).