Blog

Blog posts, articles, and notes I've written over the past few years.

2026

Home-cooked software Feb 17

2025

Looking Back at 2025 Dec 31

Reviving a Dead Pet Project Dec 12

Introducing “Moments” Oct 8

This Blog Will Make You a Better Programmer Aug 19

The Important Things in Life Aug 17

A Fresh Coat of Paint Apr 6

A 16-Color Vim Color Scheme Feb 24

Making Ham, 2025 Edition Feb 2

Gloomy Season Jan 21

Kind Engineering Jan 17

The Joy of Under-Engineering Jan 3

2024

Looking Back at 2024 Dec 31

Need an Air Horn? Say No More. Dec 30

"I'm so happy" Oct 16

This Little Piggie Went to the Pub Jul 28

Let's Create a Terminal Color Scheme Jun 16

A Short Trip to Athens Mar 28

You Might Be Better Off Without Pull Requests Jan 27

How I Made My Own Ham Jan 17

2023

A Year in Review: 2023 Dec 31

It's Time to Get Personal! Dec 21

The Hyperion Cantos Dec 13

Book Review: “Tidy First?” Dec 12

Path to Production Mapping Mar 8

2022

Browser Bookmarks on the Command Line Oct 31

2021

Book Review: “Learning Test-Driven Development” Dec 15

2020

How Remote Work Changed my Life Dec 21

Doppelkopf — 3 Years Later Nov 11

Distraction-free writing with vim Feb 2

2019

Ham Apr 5

Moving On Apr 5

2018

Testing Ansible Provisioning Locally Sep 14

2017

A "Doppelkopf" Browser Game Nov 26

E-book Release of Testing Microservices Sep 28

Testing Microservices - Java & Spring Boot Sep 19

Testing Microservices Sep 18

2015

Remote Pair Programming With SSH & tmux Nov 3

Fun and Useless Tools for Your Command Line Oct 25

Make tmux Pretty and Usable Aug 17

A Quick and Easy Guide to tmux Aug 16

The 'Moving Apartments' Retrospective Jun 20

The Tweetrospective - spice up your next Agile Retrospective May 10

Import your DKB account into Homebank Apr 7

2014

Working at ThoughtWorks, a three month retrospective Nov 22

Goodbye Gütersloh, Hello Hamburg! Aug 19