Tag Archives: software

Archiving Sites

One job that I have been taking on over the last few weeks is archiving some old project sites using a CMS. We tend to render a copy into static HTML to keep them alive, but no longer updateable. Normally, I would use wget -r <site here> to flatten the site. Occasionally the –no-check-certificate option […]

April 11, 2025 – 11:33 am | By iain_emsley | Posted in algorithms, Information Retrieval | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Go at Your Own Pace and Be Social?

I was recently re-reading Paula Bialski’s Middle Tech (Bialski, 2024), an ethnographic account of her time at a German software company that explores culture of Good Enough in software. It is an engaging book that seemingly moves against the Move Fast and Break Things culture, but I am wondering if it holds water there as […]

January 9, 2025 – 5:37 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in algorithms, Software Engineering | Tagged , | Comments (0)