Wandering Thoughts archives

2016-08-31:	Python 3 module APIs and the question of Unicode conversion errors The various IDs of disks, filesystems, software RAID, LVM, et al in Linux
2016-08-30:	Bourne's `getopts` sadly makes simple shell scripts more cluttered and verbose
2016-08-29:	Phones and tablets are going to change what sort of passwords I use
2016-08-28:	My logic of blocking certain sorts of attachments outright
2016-08-26:	Why ZFS L2ARC is probably not a good fit for our setup
2016-08-25:	The single editor myth(ology)
2016-08-24:	Blindly trying to copy a web site these days is hazardous `more`, `less`, and a story of typical Unix fossilization
2016-08-23:	Link: File crash consistency and filesystems are hard Link: Git from the inside out
2016-08-22:	A belated realization about 'TLS suicide' and user CGIs et al An interesting case of NFS traffic (probably) holding a ZFS snapshot busy
2016-08-21:	My pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus vim for my programming
2016-08-19:	My current Go autocompletion setup in GNU Emacs Localhost is (sometimes) a network
2016-08-17:	A surprising missing Unix command: waiting until a time is reached
2016-08-16:	How you tell what signals a Linux process is ignoring
2016-08-15:	My ambivalent view on Vim superintelligence, contrasted with GNU Emacs Some options for reindenting (some of) my existing Python code
2016-08-14:	Code alone can tell you the what but it cannot tell you why
2016-08-13:	What I did to set up a wireless network and what I have left to do
2016-08-12:	I think I'm going to shift my style of Python indentation
2016-08-10:	Systemd has a problem with SATA disks behind port multipliers A look into a future where things assume you have a smartphone
2016-08-08:	I need more than one way to get on the Internet from home
2016-08-07:	Why I like the sam editor The harm that comes from ZFS not being GPL-compatible
2016-08-05:	Free software licenses are social things, not just legal ones It's likely worth re-detecting your system's sensor chips every so often
2016-08-03:	Some malware that sends interesting fake mailing list messages Containerization as the necessary end point of deployment automation
2016-08-01:	My new key binding hack for `xcape` and dmenu

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