Migrating a shell to JOS
When I published my work around my own operating system JOS many moths back, my former colleague and friend Alexander suggest that in order to make my OS useful, it…
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The best mail filter rule in the world
As someone who is using many web services and also contributing there, many automated notifications accumulate over time. Jira Ticket updates, newly created Confluence pages in a folder I observe,…
Aligning Test Ecosystems
(Disclaimer: As usual, I am writing here from the perspective of my personal, automotive embedded sw perspective. Below are my thoughts based on everyday-experience as an engineering manager and sw…
JOS Updates: Filesystem, Disk Driver, 4KB pages, Automated Testing
I am happy to announce that my own operating system written from scratch JOS got some updates in recent months. Since the last update I was able to extend two…
Corporate SW Engineering Aphorisms
During my recent vacation I was reflecting on patterns I observe in my 15+ tenure in a corporate SW engineering environment. My friends and colleagues know me to be very…
Business Trip to Egypt
Few weeks back my colleagues Kemal Hajvazovic, Seif Abdelmegeed and me had the chance to visit our partners from Luxoft Egypt in Cairo. It was great to meet the team…
JOS is on fire 🔥
During a long weekend my own operating system has made some progress: – JOS is now able to read data from ext2 filesystem images– Via a new serial interface, automated…
Technology Radar #32: Automotive SW perspective
Few days ago version #32 of Thoughtworks‘ (TW) Technology Radar has been published. As in earlier blog posts, I want to review the topics in there from the perspective of…
Business Trip to India
It was a blast at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India with my team colleagues from Platform Software Integration Testing, Virtual ECU and Adaptive Integration! Thanks for hosting us, the great…
German Government Spending Data
These days you can read a lot on DOGE in the US. Without wanting to start a flamewar on the approach and controversies, I can say it sparked my interest…