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

Installing the Garmin ConnectIQ SDK

Yesterday I ordered a Garmin vívoactive 3. At ¥15200 it was hard to not get one. As Garmin has an app store for their watches and there’s also a developer forum and of course an SDK, the next obvious step was to install that SDK. Installing the ConnectIQ SDK Get it from here. It seems

ELK with HTTPS

The previous blog entry lacked using https so all communication is in plain text, which makes using passwords less than ideal. This blog entry fixes this. The full source code for the docker-compose.yml and haproxy.cfg file is available here. docker-compose.yml What’s this docker-compose file doing? It starts 2 containers: the ELK container and the HAProxy

Logging via ElasticSearch

The Elastic Stack is a simple way to log “things” into ElasticSearch and make them nicely visible via Kibana. Since ELK can handle logs as well as time series data, I’ll use it for my own logging incl. performance logging. For pure time series data I’d use the TIG stack: Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana. Installing

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