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