Wandering Thoughts archives

2021-01-31:	The limitations on `find`'s `-exec` option and implementation convenience
2021-01-30:	I wish every program that wanted 'a SQL database' would let me use SQLite
2021-01-29:	Illustrating the importance of fully multi-core program building today Forecasting drive failures is not always as useful as it sounds
2021-01-27:	Making tracking upstream Git repositories a bit quieter `find` mostly doesn't need `xargs` today on modern Unixes
2021-01-25:	Time for Python 2 users to make sure we have a copy of Pip and other pieces
2021-01-24:	Your monitoring and alerts remember things for you Thinking through what can go badly with databases on ZFS
2021-01-22:	SMART Threshold numbers turn out to not be useful for us in practice
2021-01-21:	A lingering sign of old hopes for ZFS deduplication Real email has MIME attachments that are HTML
2021-01-20:	A realization about the Linux CPU pressure stall information
2021-01-18:	Where Firefox's text encoding menus are
2021-01-17:	Password managers automate checking the website address for you One reason to not trust SMART attribute data for consumer drives
2021-01-15:	SMART attributes can predict SSD failures under the right circumstances
2021-01-14:	Understanding WireGuard's `AllowedIPs` setting (and a bit of tcpdump)
2021-01-13:	Installing Pip in Python 2 environments that don't provide it already What you can and can't build in Go's module mode
2021-01-11:	How to make Bash fail badly on Ubuntu 16.04 by typo'ing a command name
2021-01-10:	Thinking through why you shouldn't use plaintext passwords in authentication, even inside TLS What timestamps you get back along with Prometheus query results
2021-01-08:	How to extract raw time series data from Prometheus
2021-01-07:	I got to experience the march of storage technology today
2021-01-06:	In modern email, it's easy for plaintext and HTML parts to drift apart Link: ARM support in Linux distributions demystified Unix shell pipelines have two usage patterns
2021-01-05:	TLS Certificate Authority root certificate expiry dates are not how trust in them is managed
2021-01-03:	TLS Certificate Authority root certificates and their dates The modern web and (alleged) software stagnation in the past few decades
2021-01-01:	An interesting and puzzling bit of Linux server utilization

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