Fixing things the smart way

Posted on 7th December 20237th December 2023 by Sebastian

During development I’m constantly applying small fixes to my code. It could be anything from improving some comments, simplifying some conditional statements, or doing a small refactoring like extracting some lines into a simple method. Most of the time these small fixes end up either in small commits that dilute the git history or in commits that have a completely different focus and thus dilute the change set of those commits. But there is a better way to incorporate those kind of changes into your codebase.

The Power of Planning: Elevating Software Quality

Posted on 1st September 20236th December 2023 by Sebastian

The topic of planning in software development is a contentious one. Some argue that software is inherently too intricate to plan accurately, prompting the question of whether planning is even worthwhile. It’s not uncommon to see Agile methodologies being used as a shield to avoid planning. For instance, teams claim, “We focus only on the[…]

Rewriting history with git filter-branch

Posted on 21st November 201921st November 2019 by Sebastian

Welcome to my second post in the series of lesser-known git commands. If you have missed last week’s post about git worktree you can find it here. This week we will look at git filter-branch. Hopefully, you will not need it that often but if you do git filter-branch is extremely powerful in rewriting your[…]

Make use of multiple working trees in git

Posted on 14th November 201914th November 2019 by Sebastian

I thought I would start a blog post series about some lesser-known git features. So here we go! With no further ado let’s kick things off with git worktree. Normally if you clone a repository you are switching branches in your working directory. But let’s imagine you don’t want to or are not able to[…]

FrOSCon 14

Posted on 12th August 201912th August 2019 by Sebastian

Last weekend I visited the FrOSCon 14 in Sankt Augustin. The FrOSCon is a two day conference that’s completely free for visitors and focuses, as the name indicates, on free and open source software. On Sunday a gave a talk about git “Git Fu Developing”. You can watch the recording either on the CCC website[…]

Sebastian on Voices

Posted on 25th June 201910th July 2019 by Sebastian

A while ago Cal Evans interviewed me for the Voices of the ElePHPant podcast. Today he released the episode. You can tune in if you want to know about my “Hero Back Story”.

Messages to your future self

Posted on 25th April 201910th July 2019 by Sebastian

Most parts of the libraries I maintain are written by me. So why is it, that I try to write good comments and good commit messages, even if I might be the only one ever reading them again.

IPC Munich 2018

Posted on 29th October 201829th October 2018 by Sebastian

Holy crap, last post was a 2017 wrap up and it is October already. So a lot has happened over the last couple of month that I did not blog about but hopefully will in the near future. But I gave two talks at this years IPC in Munich and thought this is a good[…]

Talk at Tech’n Drinks

Posted on 28th August 201810th July 2019 by Sebastian

Today I gave a talk at MyPoster’s Tech’n Drinks meetup in Munich. Before the talk I was interviewed by Vanessa from MyPoster and we talked a bit about legacy code.

Thank you 2017

Posted on 20th December 201720th December 2017 by Sebastian

Inspired by Holger Woltersdorf and his post on the 24 days of December website I thought I could write a little thank you note. At least it is the time of the year to get all warm and fuzzy, so let’s do this.