Wandering Thoughts archives

2017-06-30:	Our current generation fileservers have turned out to be too big Why big Exim queues are a problem for us in practice
2017-06-29:	The TLDs of sender addresses for a week of our spam (June 2017 edition)
2017-06-28:	I don't think you should increase ZFS on Linux's write buffering
2017-06-26:	Our MTAs should probably be able to create backpressure
2017-06-25:	Thinking through issues a mail client may have with SMTP-time rejections One tradeoff in email system design is who holds problematic email
2017-06-23:	In praise of uBlock Origin's new 'element zapper' feature Links: Git remote branches and Git's missing terminology (and more) My situation with Twitter and my Firefox setup (in which I blame pseudo-XHTML)
2017-06-22:	Why we're not running the current version of Django
2017-06-21:	The oddity of CVE-2014-9940 and the problem of recognizing kernel security patches
2017-06-19:	Plan for manual emergency blocks for your overall mail system How I'm currently handling the mailing lists I read
2017-06-17:	One reason you have a mysterious Unix file called `2` (or `1`)
2017-06-16:	Go interfaces and automatically generated functions The (current) state of Firefox Nightly and old extensions
2017-06-15:	Why I am not installing your app on my phone
2017-06-14:	The difference between ZFS scrubs and resilvers
2017-06-12:	Resilvering multiple disks at once in a ZFS pool adds no real extra overhead
2017-06-11:	Why filing away mailing lists for a while has improved my life How to see raw USB events on Linux via usbmon
2017-06-10:	One downside of the traditional style of writing Unix manpages
2017-06-09:	My `.procmailrc` has quietly sort of turned into a swamp
2017-06-08:	In practice, putting SSDs into 3.5" drive bays is a big hassle
2017-06-06:	A humbling experience of misreading some simple (Go) code The IPv6 address lookup problem (and brute force solution)
2017-06-05:	Another case of someone being too clever in their `User-Agent` field
2017-06-04:	Link: The evolution of Unix's overall architecture Why the `popen()` API works but more complex versions blow up
2017-06-03:	The Python Gilectomy project's performance problem
2017-06-02:	My views on the JSON Feed syndication feed format

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