Tools Jekyll vs postach.io vs ghost As I wrote in my last post (and my first for a long time), I realized that I didn't write for almost 2 years. Reflecting on how it happened, I of course found
Tools What changed since 2012? - Things are simpler now! (in 2018) Yesterday, I realized, that it's been almost 2 long years since my last post. A lot has happened in that time and while migrating this blog to ghost, I reflected on some older
Tools Vagrant on Windows with gulp-watch and similar file watching tools As you might have guessed from my previous posts I love Vagrant and Gulp. I think those tools are awesome. They make my life much easier by either packing everything into a VM
Tools Vagrant + Docker = Rainbows + Unicorns Be honest with yourself, how many applications and services do you have running on your machine right now? And how many do you really need? Step 0 - rant 2 weeks ago, when
Tools Ignore node_modules in Dropbox Actually this problem isn't only about NodeJS development and the node_modules folders, but this is where it's the most pain. It's more about having any kind of way to download and generate
Tools Update your BIOS from Linux I just struggled for quite some time to update my laptops BIOS (DELL Latitude). I am running only Linux (Ubuntu) as my main OS and didn't want to install Windows just for the
Performance The Difference in (Un)Zip-Performance I got a nice present for Christmas, last year - a Windows 8 Tablet/Notebook convertible. With the extra battery in the keyboard and an Intel-Atom SoC the power lasts easily for 12h
Hyper-V How to Forward HTTP Requests in Windows 8 to a Hyper-V VM Complicated title - that's pretty much, what I was looking for on Google, yet with only little success. At first, I found some instructions for Windows Server 2008R2 and 2012. After modifying the