https://mwitkow.me/tags/untagged/Recent content in Untagged on mwitkow@'s cornerHugo -- gohugo.ioen-UKSat, 24 Aug 2024 13:29:04 +0100https://mwitkow.me/posts/chrome-flags-mac-os/Sat, 24 Aug 2024 13:29:04 +0100https://mwitkow.me/posts/chrome-flags-mac-os/I think I finally cracked what was causing my work Macbook Pro (M2 chip) as well as my personal Macbook Air (Intel chip) to crawl to a halt when using Chrome or VSCode… Turns out GPU rendering was off. To be frank, I’m not 100% sure what effect these flags have, but they definitely fixed the Chrome Helper process killing my CPU. Chrome Go to chrome://flags and set Enable to the following experimental flags:https://mwitkow.me/posts/2020-04-07_wiregate/Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:29:04 +0100https://mwitkow.me/posts/2020-04-07_wiregate/This post goes into the details of how to make websites you run in your home, such as Home Assistant, exposed to the public securely and (almost) for free. The post details how to set up a free GCE instance, TLS certificates via LetsEncrypt, a Treafik proxy with Google authentication, and automatic VPNs built using Wireguard. For brevity, I called this setup Wiregate, i.e. a wire-guard gateway. Overal diagram giving an idea of how Wiregate works.https://mwitkow.me/posts/2020-04-06_first_post/Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:29:04 +0100https://mwitkow.me/posts/2020-04-06_first_post/Right… So it’s been a while since I last had a personal website, back in Geocities times. This current Coronavirus crisis means I have significant time on my hands, as I’m stuck in London instead of traveling the world as we planned. Expectations setting As such, I decided to built a place where I could dump my random notes: things I research for myself in a form semi-digestable for others. Please don’t expect much, this will be fairly rarely updated.