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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