Wandering Thoughts archives

2017-05-31:	How a lot of specifications are often read Why one `git fetch` default configuration bit is probably okay
2017-05-29:	Configuring Git worktrees to limit what's fetched on pulls
2017-05-28:	My thoughts on git worktrees for me (and some notes on things I tried) Specifications are ultimately defined by their implementations
2017-05-26:	Why globally unique IDs are useful for syndication feed entries
2017-05-25:	Using Linux's Magic Sysrq on modern keyboards without a dedicated Syrq key URLs are terrible permanent identifiers for things
2017-05-24:	Exploiting Python's Global Interpreter Lock for atomic operations is fun
2017-05-22:	Safely using Python's Global Interpreter Lock is quite tricky and subtle
2017-05-21:	We use jQuery and I've stopped feeling ashamed about it A 'null MX' is also useful for blocking forged senders from non-email domains
2017-05-20:	We now have an officially standardized 'null MX' record
2017-05-19:	I'm not sure what I feel about this web spider's User-Agent value
2017-05-18:	A shift in the proper sizes of images on web pages
2017-05-17:	Unfortunately I don't feel personally passionate about OmniOS
2017-05-15:	Thinking about how much asynchronous disk write buffering you want How we failed at making all our servers have SSD system disks
2017-05-14:	People don't like changes (in computer stuff)
2017-05-13:	People don't patch systems and that's all there is to it
2017-05-12:	Where bootstrapping Go with a modern version of Go has gotten faster
2017-05-11:	The challenges of recovering when unpacking archives with damage
2017-05-10:	Building the Go compiler from source from scratch (on Unix)
2017-05-08:	Some things I've decided to do to improve my breaks and vacations
2017-05-07:	ZFS's `zfs receive` has no error recovery and what that implies A mistake I made when setting up my ZFS SSD pool on my home machine
2017-05-05:	The temptation of a Ryzen-based machine for my next office workstation Digging into BSD's choice of Unix group for new directories and files
2017-05-04:	My views on using LVM for your system disk and root filesystem
2017-05-03:	Sometimes, `chmod` can fail for interesting reasons
2017-05-01:	When a TLS client's certificate is offered to the TLS server

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