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.

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Generate permutation shell aliases

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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...

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restic backups scheduled with native OS tools

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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...

Projects Page

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NestedText Implementation in Ruby

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With this post I’m declaring my latest project nestedtext-ruby more or less done (for now)! It’s a library for a new exciting data format designed to address...