Wandering Thoughts archives

2019-08-31:	The sorts of email attachments that we get these days have become boring
2019-08-30:	ZFS is not a universal filesystem that is always good for all workloads How I'm dealing with my Python indentation problem in GNU Emacs
2019-08-28:	A wifi MAC address randomization surprise in a new Android gadget Allowing some Alias directives to override global Redirects in Apache
2019-08-26:	A lesson of (alert) scale we learned from a power failure
2019-08-25:	Text UIs and the problem of discoverability
2019-08-24:	Apache, Let's Encrypt, and site-wide reverse proxies and HTTP redirections
2019-08-23:	What happens in ZFS when you have 4K sector disks in an `ashift=9` vdev Link: GNOME Terminal Cursor Blinking Saga
2019-08-22:	Pruning deleted remote Git branches (manually or automatically)
2019-08-21:	Making sense of OpenBSD '`pfctl -ss`' output for firewall state tables
2019-08-20:	Saying goodbye to Flash (in Firefox, and in my web experience)
2019-08-19:	Go 2 Generics: contracts are now boring (and that's good)
2019-08-18:	Early notes on using LSP-based editing in GNU Emacs for Python
2019-08-17:	A situation where Python has undefined values
2019-08-16:	A gotcha with Fedora 30's switch of Grub to BootLoaderSpec based configuration Systemd and waiting until network interfaces or addresses are configured
2019-08-15:	Getting LSP-based editing working for Go in GNU Emacs
2019-08-13:	Changes to Go and the appearance of finality
2019-08-12:	Linux can run out of memory without triggering the Out-Of-Memory killer
2019-08-11:	Roughly when the Linux Out-Of-Memory killer triggers (as of mid-2019)
2019-08-10:	One core problem with DNSSEC
2019-08-09:	Turning off DNSSEC in my Unbound instances Non-uniform caches are harder to make work well
2019-08-07:	What has to happen with Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space Rewriting my iptables rules using ipsets
2019-08-05:	`dup(2)` and shared file descriptors
2019-08-04:	Some notes on understanding how to use `flock(1)`
2019-08-03:	Sharing file descriptors with child processes is a clever Unix decision Link: ASCII table and history (Or, why does Ctrl+i insert a Tab in my terminal?)
2019-08-02:	If you can, you should use `flock(1)` for shell script locking Getting NetworkManager to probably verify TLS certificates for 802.1x networks
2019-08-01:	How not to set up your DNS (part 24)

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