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

Finger of god: using sudo with TouchID on macOS

4 minute read

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...

Git Hacks

6 minute read

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...

Impermanent Programming

10 minute read

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...

Managing large amounts of VCS repos locally

2 minute read

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...

Recent posts

HTML Proof Your Site in a CI Build Pipeline

2 minute read

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...

Advent of Code Tricks

11 minute read

Update I shared this post on Reddit and there’s some nice discussions in the comments section for more tips!

Finger of god: using sudo with TouchID on macOS

4 minute read

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...