Bahman's Musings

I used to have a relatively derelict blog (the one you're on now) where I would jot down some of my thoughts and ex…

I've been a software engineer for long enough to have seen our workflows evolve dramatically.Waiting for the Toolch…

I’ve written a ton of Bash scripts over the years - haven't we all?
To be honest, for a long time I handled command…

Two equally notorious ways to guarantee failure in any software project:Ship too soonNever shipThis is the story I use …

There are two major flavours of variables in GNU Make: "simple" and "recursive". While simple…

Early in my career, I learned an expensive lesson (fortunately by observation, not by failure) and it has had a profoun…

I'll confess: for years, I was an adamant believer.
I was convinced that achieving "zero incidents" was ju…