Nail's Tech Notes

Single Person vs Team

Tue, 26 May 2026 00:33:22 +0100

Why Projects managed by small team succed

Project managed by a single person succeed whereas project managed by big team fails example Unix vs Multics.
Project managed by a single person fits in one person’s head, there is no lost in translation that occurs in big team.
This is the same dilemma as in monolithic vs micro-services. Monolithic solutions are efficient in contrast to micro-services.
Joel Spolsky law “it’s harder to read code than to write it,” means that the writer of a software must explains his code to other if he wanted to avoid frictions and to be understood.
But as the code base gets big, it cannot be managed by a single person. It must be managed by a team. This team must be kept small as possible!

Installing Nginx With Certbot

Sun, 24 May 2026 01:38:26 +0100

What is nginx

Nginx is a high-performance, open-source web server and reverse proxy. It is a viable alternative to apache web server.

Installing nginx in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

First issue the following command:

$ sudo apt update

then install the package by running:

$ sudo apt install nginx -y

Now check the status of nginx service by entering the following command:

$ sudo systemctl status nginx

If the response is the following:

Setting up hugo

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:06:26 +0100

What is hugo

hugo is a static website generator. It build website from content written in Markdown to static HTML. Also it can be easily themed by themes from https://themes.gohugo.io/.

Installing hugo in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

There is three different methods for installing hugo in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS:

apt repository.
github repo .deb package.
snap package.

I opted for snap package because it will be updated regularly. All we have to do is to issue the following command: