Wandering Thoughts archives

2019-05-31:	Some things on how ZFS dnode object IDs are allocated (which is not sequentially) Some things about where icons for modern X applications come from
2019-05-30:	Conditional expressions in any form are an attractive thing
2019-05-28:	Distribution packaging of software needs to be informed (and useful) An interesting report on newly used domain names and their usage in spam
2019-05-27:	Something that Linux distributions should not do when packaging things
2019-05-26:	Why I no longer have strong feelings about changes to Python
2019-05-25:	Blocking JavaScript by default is not an easy path
2019-05-24:	The problem of paying too much attention to our dashboards
2019-05-23:	I will probably never give my shell dotfiles the major reform they could use On programming languages belonging (or not) to their community
2019-05-22:	Go is Google's language, not ours
2019-05-20:	Understanding how to pull in labels from other metrics in Prometheus
2019-05-19:	DKIM signed email as a signal (of something)
2019-05-18:	Binding keys to actions in xterm, and my bindings as an example
2019-05-17:	My new favorite tool for looking at TLS things is `certigo` One of our costs of using OmniOS was not having 10G networking
2019-05-16:	Go has no type for types in the language
2019-05-15:	An infrequent odd kernel panic on our Ubuntu 18.04 fileservers
2019-05-13:	Fixing Alpine to work over NFS on Ubuntu 18.04 (and probably other modern Linuxes)
2019-05-12:	What we'll want in a new Let's Encrypt client Committed address space versus active anonymous pages in Linux: a mystery
2019-05-10:	Some thoughts on Red Hat Enterprise 8 including Python 2 and what it means Firefox versus Chrome (my 2019 view)
2019-05-08:	Some general things and views on DNS over HTTPS A Linux machine with a strict overcommit limit can still trigger the OOM killer
2019-05-07:	Some weird and dubious syndication feed fetching from SBL-listed IPs
2019-05-05:	TLS certificate rollover outside of the web is complex and tangled What usually identifies an intermediate or root TLS certificate
2019-05-03:	In Go, unsafe type conversions are still garbage collection safe Some implications of using `offset` instead of `delta()` in Prometheus
2019-05-01:	One of my problems with YAML is its sheer complexity

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