Wandering Thoughts archives

2017-01-31:	Email attachments of singleton nested zipfiles are suspicious
2017-01-30:	Why having CR LF as your line ending is a mistake How you can abruptly lose your filesystem on a software RAID mirror
2017-01-29:	How Unix erases things when you type a backspace while entering text
2017-01-28:	What we still use ASCII CR for today (on Unix)
2017-01-27:	Conversations, conversational units, and Twitter
2017-01-26:	Things that make Go channels expensive to implement
2017-01-25:	I think docstrings in Python are for everything, not just public things
2017-01-23:	Linux desktops and pre-packaged machines from big vendors My still-mixed feelings about Python's docstrings
2017-01-22:	An Ubuntu default Bash setup that irritates me, especially for `root`
2017-01-20:	Why tiling window managers are not really for me (on the desktop) Spam and virus filtering on email is a risk (although likely not a big one)
2017-01-19:	Thinking about how to add some SSDs on my home machine
2017-01-18:	Exim, IPv6, and hosts that MX to localhost
2017-01-17:	Making my machine stay responsive when writing to USB drives
2017-01-16:	Linux is terrible at handling IO to USB drives on my machine
2017-01-15:	Link: Let's Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code Points Some notes on 4K monitors and connecting to them
2017-01-14:	My picks for mind-blowing Git features
2017-01-13:	The ZFS pool history log that's used by '`zpool history`' has a size limit
2017-01-12:	Modern ad networks are why adblockers are so effective
2017-01-11:	ZFS's potentially very useful '`zpool history -i`' option
2017-01-10:	Picking FreeType CJK fonts for `xterm` on a modern Linux system
2017-01-09:	Making modern FreeType-using versions of `xterm` display CJK characters
2017-01-08:	One downside of a queued IO model is memory consumption for idle connections
2017-01-07:	How ready my Firefox extensions are for Firefox Electrolysis
2017-01-06:	Web adblockers and the potential for recreating the Usenet killfile problem
2017-01-05:	Mail submission by users versus by your machines
2017-01-04:	Make sure that (system) email works on every machine
2017-01-02:	Software should support configuring overall time limits ZFS may panic your system if you have an exceptionally slow IO

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