Timo Weingärtner

Timo Weingärtner

contact

email
timo@tiwe.de
OpenPGP
0xB66B10F0
XMPP
timo@tiwe.de
PSTN
+49 1577 5353235

interests

Free Software

… is more fun and less annoying, especially with Debian.

Free Software is take and give, thus I contribute my part.

bug reports and patches

Software is used in diverse ways, so authors of software sometimes don't realize bugs by themselves. Most authors of Free Software appreciate bug reports. You can make them even happier by sending them patches like I did for e. g. apt, wakeonlan, vdr-plugin-live and dak.

Sometimes the author ceases to use the own software. Then you might take over maintainership like I did for libpam-pwdfile in Debian as well as upstream.

my own software

hadori
a tool for hardlinking identical files, that uses sensible data structures to be efficient and thus avoid problems with large directory trees.
openssh-known-hosts
downloads known_hosts files for OpenSSH, verifies their authenticy, filters contained hostnames and IP-addresses, then merges them into one file for use by ssh.
ssh-agent-filter
a filtering proxy for ssh-agent. Circumvents the all-or-nothing descision regarding forwarding the agent connection to another host.

programming languages

I prefer assembling existing programs using (ba)sh scripts to reinventing the wheel. If that gets too inefficient or fiddling with bits is needed, C++11 is my language of choice. I always design in- and output of a program in a way that it can seemlessly work together with existing ones, closely following the Unix Philosophy.

If the language of a project is already set, I sometimes write code in C, Perl, PHP, Python, …