Writing

Long-form pieces on software, cloud, and the first-principles series on engineering practice. Newest first.

2026

• Apr 13 Dependency cooldowns considered harmful: a first-principles analysis
• Apr 09 First Principles: Distributed Systems (Most of Yours Should Not Exist)
• Apr 08 First Principles: Data Engineering and ETLs
• Mär 30 First Principles: DevOps
• Mär 21 First Principles: Software Design
• Mär 19 First Principles: Software Observability
• Jan 18 Taming Your Dev Chaos with direnv, .env, and .envrc (Plus a Sneak Peek at mise-en-place)

2020

• Jun 11 Git usage guidelines for team collaboration

2017

• Dez 30 Remove big files from a git repository

2015

• Mai 14 Access Google Spreadsheets using gspread and OAuth2Client

2014

• Nov 11 Install Bokeh from sources
• Jul 06 How to use Byobu
• Jun 03 How to set up different versions of GCC
• Apr 26 Installing common Python data analysis tools in virtualenv
• Apr 08 Compile Numpy and Scipy against Intel MKL
• Feb 27 Using BibLatex with Lyx and JabRef
• Feb 08 How to create virtualenvs with Virtualenvwrapper