Open Sourcing my Second Jekyll Plugin - Glossary Tooltip
Stay DRY - Don’t Repeat Yourself This site is built using the SSG (A Static Site Generator compiles the website before deployment. Then the generated web ...
Hi, I’m Erik Westrup, a software engineer based in Berlin.
This site is where I share writing on software engineering, developer tooling, and the systems behind modern web apps, including CI/CD, Linux, and static sites.
I also write occasionally about Buddhism, reflecting on how practice and ideas like impermanence relate to life and work as a software engineer.
You’ll also find selected personal projects, a small art gallery, and ways to get in touch.
Highlighted Posts
restic backups scheduled with native OS tools
Remote Backups - Just Do It I wanted to share here a project that I did a few years ago but that is still very relevant. What is very relevant? To have off-s...
A Manager’s Secret for Engineers to Advancement and Promotion
TL;DR Managers are busy and can not see everything even if they try, thus… Shape and also complete your own personal goals to make it easier for your ma...
HTML Proof Your Site in a CI Build Pipeline
Following up on my blog post Removing Exif Data from Images in Your Website With Rake and CI Build Pipeline, I have a another nice feature that I added to th...
Recent posts
Impermanent Programming
Blog Enters a New Domain Whoops here we go, time to test the deep waters 1: writing about Tech +/with/other-way-around-maybe Buddhism (Buddhism is definit...
Generate permutation shell aliases
Diggin’ Dotfiles Collection It’s time to dig the dotfiles, and to dig in to them! This post is a part of a blog post collection called Diggin’ Dotfiles where...
Managing large amounts of VCS repos locally
How to Organize Local Git Clones Where to put your local git repos so that they are easy to find? How do you avoid name clashes maybe two repos have the...