Wandering Thoughts archives

2020-06-30:	The unfortunate limitation in ZFS filesystem quotas and refquota
2020-06-29:	How Prometheus Blackbox's TLS certificate metrics would have reacted to AddTrust's root expiry Adapting our Django web app to changing requirements by not doing much
2020-06-28:	Understanding why Django's goals are not our goals for our web application
2020-06-26:	NetworkManager and (not) dealing with conflicting network connections
2020-06-25:	What Prometheus Blackbox's TLS certificate expiry metrics are checking
2020-06-24:	Unix's design issue of device numbers being in stat() results for files
2020-06-23:	Sometimes it takes other people to show you some of your site's design flaws
2020-06-22:	Today I learned that HTML <abbr> may not do much on mobile browsers
2020-06-21:	In Go, the compiler needs to know the types of things when copying values
2020-06-20:	The additional complications in DNS updates that secondary DNS servers add
2020-06-19:	Removing unmaintained packages from your Fedora machine should require explicitly opting in People's efficiency expectations for generics in 'Go 2' and patterns of use
2020-06-17:	How applications autostart on modern Linux desktops A scrolling puzzle involving GTK+, XInput, and alternate desktops (on Fedora)
2020-06-15:	Input events on X have an old world and a new world
2020-06-14:	Product code and utility code
2020-06-13:	An interesting combination of flaws in some `/etc/mailcap` handling
2020-06-12:	The safety of GMail's POP server TLS certificate verification (or lack of it) Dual displays contrasting with virtual screens (aka multiple desktops)
2020-06-10:	A dual display setup creates a natural split between things
2020-06-09:	The practical people problem with instance diversity in the Fediverse My mixed feelings about 'swap on zram' for Linux
2020-06-07:	A Go time package gotcha with parsing time strings that use named time zones
2020-06-06:	Why sysadmins don't like changing things, illustrated
2020-06-05:	Why we put alert start and end times in our Prometheus alert messages
2020-06-04:	Formatting alert start and end times in Prometheus Alertmanager messages
2020-06-03:	In theory you (we) should have SPF records for HELO hostnames too
2020-06-02:	A subtle trap when formatting Go `time.Time` values
2020-06-01:	Watching the recent AddTrust root CA certificate expiry has been humbling

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