Writing on software design, company building, and the aerospace industry.
All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
Exporting Delicious Bookmarks anno 2017
The Export tab in your Delicious bookmarks account shows it has been disabled due to heavy load on the database. Too bad, but that doesn't prevent me from using the web scraping trick to download all my bookmarks.
Git, source code, spaces or tabs?
In a previous article, I talked about converting from TFS to Git and documented the normalization of the line endings in the converted Git repository. Another aspect of source code is whether spaces or tabs should be used.
Backporting Debian/Ubuntu packages the easy way.
There is a lot of documentation on the use of Debian/Ubuntu packaging tools, but most of these pages just list the options of each of these tools.