Wandering Thoughts archives

2019-04-30:	My problem with YAML's use of whitespace
2019-04-29:	Notifications and interruptions, and my view on them
2019-04-28:	A gotcha with stale metrics and *_over_time() in Prometheus
2019-04-27:	Some useful features of (GNU) `date` for things like time conversion
2019-04-26:	Brief notes on making Prometheus instant queries with `curl` Various aspects of Python made debugging my `tarfile` problem unusual
2019-04-24:	How we're making updated versions of a file rapidly visible on our Linux NFS clients The appeal of using plain HTML pages
2019-04-22:	Go 2 Generics: The usefulness of requiring minimal contracts You might as well get an x86 CPU now, despite Meltdown and its friends
2019-04-21:	My view on upgrading Prometheus (and Grafana) on an ongoing basis
2019-04-19:	V7 Unix programs are often not written the way you would expect Links: A Practitioner's Guide to System Dashboard Design (with a bonus)
2019-04-18:	One reason `ed(1)` was a good editor back in the days of V7 Unix A pattern for dealing with missing metrics in Prometheus in simple cases
2019-04-17:	Private browsing mode versus a browser set to keep nothing on exit
2019-04-15:	How Linux starts non-system software RAID arrays during boot under systemd
2019-04-14:	A VPN for me but not you: a surprise when tethering to my phone
2019-04-13:	Remembering that Prometheus expressions act as filters WireGuard was pleasantly easy to get working behind a NAT (or several)
2019-04-12:	Getting (and capturing) spam can sometimes be useful to see what's in it
2019-04-10:	The `tarfile` module is too generous about what is considered a tar file A Git tool that I'd like and how I probably use Git differently from most people
2019-04-08:	An example of a situation where Go interfaces can't substitute for generics
2019-04-07:	Why selecting times is still useful even for dashboards that are about right now A ZFS resilver can be almost as good as a scrub, but not quite
2019-04-05:	I won't be trying out ZFS's new TRIM support for a while It's always DNS (a story of our circular dependency)
2019-04-03:	A sign of people's fading belief in RSS syndication NVMe and an interesting technology change
2019-04-01:	Our plan for handling TRIM'ing our ZFS fileserver SSDs

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