Fixing my Bicycle

While riding my bike a while ago, the bottom bracket gear cable guide broke. I got a generic replacement which looked similar enough. Made by Shimano. For about 350 Yen. Awesome! What could go wrong? Turns out a lot: the diameter it’s made for is smaller than the one needed for my bicycle. And the

vmware Horizon Client on Ubuntu with Firefox

Sometimes things “just” work on Linux, and sometimes it’s a bit more fiddling. It’s the latter when running vmware Horizon client with Firefox. But as so often, there’s a fix here. Copy&pasted the answer here: Download the client from the VMWare Horizon Client for 64-bit Linux In Firefox, open about:config and click through the warning.

Making JetBrain’s IDEs less sluggish

WebStorm works on my Chromebook in Crostini. I’m happy it works. It’s a bit sluggish, but I attributed this to the CPU (m3), the many pixels on the screen (2400×1600) and/or Crostini itself. It’s fine as I won’t run thousands of lines of code here. On my home Linux desktop (i7-4510U) it’s much better. Not

Citrix Workspace and Linux

Installing the Citrix Workspace (formerly Receiver) on a Linux machine should be simple. After all, installing it on a Chromebook worked just fine (after enabling High DPI since my Chromebook has such a display). But on Linux all I got was: You have not chosen to trust “Entrust Root Certification Authority – G2”, the issuer

Get your https:// back in Chrome

Google changed the Address bar in Chrome to remove https:// and the leading www. I am fine with the closed lock for https:// and an open lock for http://, but I do not like the mangled DNS name. So it looks like this as per the new default: If you are like me and prefer

The Inner Workings Of SSDs

Found a most interesting article series about how SSD internally work: http://codecapsule.com/2014/02/12/coding-for-ssds-part-1-introduction-and-table-of-contents/ It goes quite deep, e.g. explains the internal structure of FLASH memory as well as how the Flash-Translation-Layer (FTL) works. I have not see any such detailed description yet. A Bit Related hdparm works well doe SCSI disks (or disks which behave like

Moving DNS

Part 1: Moving DNS Registrar I bought my domains quite a while ago via GoDaddy, but I had my DNS servers at Linode as that’s where the VMs were I used. Linode have an easy-to-use GUI and a well-working API (important for Let’s Encrypt certificates via acme.sh). Life was good. when it was renewal time

OKR – I like it!

Objective – Key Results (OKR) is a way to align teams to move towards a common goal. OKRs are result-oriented: It’s not prescriptive how to do something as that’s left to the implementing team. There’s a clear connection between objective and key results. KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and goals which come down from management on

Moving Blog – Again

I started to host my own WordPress blog since January 2008. First as a stand-alone installation on a cloud server, then as containers on a cloud server. December 2017 I moved this to an AWS hosted serverless blog (see here for the source code). Technically interesting, but harder to use unfortunately. Now I’m back on