Due to me having some time and my old OnePlus One Smartphone, I decided to have a look and find (stock) Android alternatives – something that exists without that rather enclosed Google-Environment. I mean, there surely has to be some guys trying to, right? A quick google search showed some old Android 5 ROMs, Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish […]
Why Facebook is evil
Now that’s a strong title here guys, but let’s have a look for its reasons and start out with some simple math and the way things used to be before most people run into the golden cage of Facebook. We all agree, Facebook itself is mostly a website from the end users point of view. A huge website, […]
etckeeper vs git push and branches
It may sound weird to save /etc in some software like git, but let’s have a look why it does make sense: git is a revision control system that tracks changes and in case is able to revert them. Basically perfect for keeping track of our configuration files. You may not want to publish them on github as […]
A bit of sugar
My trusty and ol’ VMware server was serving me well since quite some time by now, but to be honest, RAM was always an issue on those boxes. 32 GB namely aren’t much. This time I got myself a late xmas present pushing some more RAM in. Quite cool to experience the boost due to less memory-over-commitment.
Dev Diary – The new CRM – Ideas and concepts
As I work at a brand new company which is currently being founded, we found out that the common CRM systems available don’t match our needs and due to the fact that I am able to code, I decided to hack it myself. I know, that’s big words, but to be honest, a system that fits our needs […]
Skip the Google Setup Wizard
When playing around with android phones it may happen that the setup wizard crashes and refuses to work. Not nice per se and quite annoying as it prevents us from testing and developing. As I always forget how to get around that issue, here’s how it’s done: adb shell settings put global setup_wizard_has_run 1 adb shell settings put […]