Wandering Thoughts archives

2019-11-30:	Operating spam and malware filtering is ultimately a social problem Counting the number of distinct labels in a Prometheus metric
2019-11-29:	The problem of multiple NVMe drives in a PC desktop today
2019-11-27:	Selecting metrics to gather mostly based on what we can use Capturing command output in a Bourne shell variable as a brute force option
2019-11-25:	In Prometheus, don't be afraid of high cardinality metrics if they're valuable enough
2019-11-24:	I use unit tests partly to verify that something works in the first place Timing durations better in Python (most of the time)
2019-11-23:	Thinking about timeouts and exceptions in Python
2019-11-22:	Our problem of checking if our L2TP VPN servers are actually working
2019-11-20:	In the old days, we didn't use multiple Unixes by choice (mostly) The fading out of multi-'architecture' Unix environments
2019-11-18:	LiveJournal and the path to NoSQL
2019-11-17:	It's good to make sure you have notifications of things The operational differences between notifications and logs
2019-11-15:	How we structure our Django web application's configuration settings
2019-11-14:	TCP/IP and a consequence of reliable delivery guarantees
2019-11-13:	How to make a rather obnoxiously bad web spider the easy way My mistake in forgetting how Apache `.htaccess` files are checked
2019-11-11:	An apparent hazard of removing Linux software RAID mirror devices
2019-11-10:	Putting a footer on automated email that says what generated it The problems with piping curl to a shell are system management ones
2019-11-08:	I have to assume that people here can be successfully phished
2019-11-07:	Some notes on getting email when your systemd timer services fail Realizing that Go constants are always materialized into values
2019-11-06:	Systemd needs official documentation on best practices
2019-11-04:	Systemd timer units have the unfortunate practical effect of hiding errors Many of our 'worklog' messages currently assume a lot of context
2019-11-02:	Using personal ruleset recipes in uMatrix in Firefox
2019-11-01:	The appeal of text templating systems for generating HTML

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