Wandering Thoughts archives

2020-01-31:	Finding out what directories exist with only basic shell builtins (a Unix shell trick)
2020-01-30:	Some notes on Python's `email.header.decode_header()`
2020-01-29:	Some effects of the ZFS DVA format on data layout and growing ZFS pools Why ZFS is not good at growing and reshaping pools (or shrinking them)
2020-01-28:	More badly encoded MIME Content-Disposition headers
2020-01-26:	The real world is mutable (and consequences for system design) How big our Prometheus setup is (as of January 2020)
2020-01-25:	A network interface losing and regaining signal can have additional effects (in Linux)
2020-01-24:	Go compared to Python for small scale system administration scripts and tools
2020-01-23:	What we've written in Go at work and how it came about (as of January 2020)
2020-01-22:	Why I've come to like that Go's type inference is limited
2020-01-20:	The value of automation having ways to shut it off (a small story)
2020-01-19:	Python 2, Apache's mod_wsgi, and its future in Linux distributions Why a network connection becoming writable when it succeeds makes sense
2020-01-18:	CUPS's page log, its use of SNMP, and (probably) why CUPS PPDs turn that off
2020-01-17:	The question of how long Python 2 will be available in Linux distributions
2020-01-15:	How Go's `net.DialContext()` stops things when the context is cancelled Stopping udev from renaming your VLAN interfaces to bad names
2020-01-13:	We may not want to use OCSP stapling in our web servers Link: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3
2020-01-12:	Sorting out the dates of Python 2's 'end of life' How I now think you want to configure Apache for OCSP stapling
2020-01-10:	OCSP stapling and what web servers and browsers do in the face of errors Fedora 31 has decided to allow (and have) giant process IDs (PIDs)
2020-01-08:	Why I use both uBlock Origin and uMatrix My Firefox addons as of Firefox '74' (the current development version)
2020-01-07:	eBPF based tools are still a work in progress on common Linuxes
2020-01-06:	How I move files between iOS devices and Unix machines (using SSH)
2020-01-05:	Why I prefer the script exporter for exposing script metrics to Prometheus
2020-01-04:	Three ways to expose script-created metrics in Prometheus
2020-01-03:	How job control made the `SIGCHLD` signal useful for (BSD) Unix
2020-01-01:	The good and bad of `errno` in a traditional Unix environment

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