Wandering Thoughts archives

2019-03-31: Our likely ZFS fileserver upgrade plans (as of March 2019)
Erasing SSDs with blkdiscard (on Linux)
2019-03-29: Our current approach for significantly upgrading or modifying servers
My NVMe versus SSD uncertainty (and hesitation)
2019-03-27: A new and exciting failure mode for Linux UEFI booting
2019-03-26: Drifting away from OmniOS (CE)
2019-03-25: The mystery of my desktop that locks up when it gets too cold
2019-03-24: Prometheus's delta() function can be inferior to subtraction with offset
Link: What has your microcode done for you lately?
A bit more on ZFS's per-pool performance statistics
2019-03-22: Sometimes the simplest version of a graph is a text table
2019-03-21: What sorts of good email attachments our users get (March 2019 edition)
2019-03-20: The types of attachments we see in malware email (March 2019 edition)
2019-03-19: ZFS Encryption is still under development (as of March 2019)
2019-03-18: Prometheus subqueries pick time points in a surprising way
2019-03-17: Going from a bound instance method to its class instance in Python
2019-03-16: Callable class instances versus closures in Python
Staying away from Google Chrome after six months or so
2019-03-14: The plague of 'you've logged in to our site again' notification emails
2019-03-13: Peculiarities about Unix's statfs() or statvfs() API
2019-03-12: An easy optimization for restricted multi-metric queries in Prometheus
2019-03-11: Testing Prometheus alert conditions through subqueries
2019-03-10: What the default query step is for Prometheus subqueries
Turning something into a script encourages improving it
2019-03-08: Exploring how and why interior pointers in Go keep entire objects alive
2019-03-07: Exploring the mild oddity that Unix pipes are buffered
Our problem with Netplan and routes on Ubuntu 18.04
2019-03-06: Using Prometheus subqueries to look for spikes in rates
2019-03-04: A surprisingly arcane little Unix shell pipeline example
2019-03-03: Understanding a change often requires understanding how the code behaves
Really understanding diffs requires knowing their context too
2019-03-01: What you get when you do a DNS A record lookup for a CNAME'd name

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