I have recently been writing and updating various bits of code recently. Through working on a Google Summer of Code project as a mentor, I have found that I am updating how I use repositories. Like many developers, I use varying git repositories such as Gitlab and Github among others. My first year on the […]
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 […]
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 […]
