The experience with my MacBook Pro late 2016 have been mostly positive. There is an annoying thing going on with third party apps, including Firefox and KeepassX, crashing. The crashes always report themselves when I unlock my laptop. So I suspect it occurs during sleep or wake of the laptop …

I run multiple vagrant setups on my laptop. Sometimes when switching from one setup to another, vagrant complains it cannot find a certain node that is actually part of the other enviroment.

As a quick fix I just run :

rm ~/.vagrant.d/data/machine-index/index

During my freelancing time over the last couple of years, I’ve been trying different setups that would satisfy my wish to use a single laptop for different clients whilst maintaining proper security.

After all, I do not want to explain my client that their servers got infected with Crapware …

The old trusty MacBook white was getting slower and slower. I upgraded it to new OS X releases when they came available over the years. As my kids became the primary user, the complaints started to pile up. I tried moving to Windows 7 and to Ubuntu. But the machine …

After some troubles with my OS X install on my Retina Macbook, I thought it would be a good time to revisit Linux on the Desktop. Although I have desktop Linuxes running all the time, the last time I ran Linux as a desktop native on hardware was years ago …