Wandering Thoughts archives

2021-05-31:	It'd be useful if TLS libraries had better and more detailed error messages I've come to like date-based names for log rotation
2021-05-30:	Go 1.17 will still support the old GOPATH mode (as well as modules)
2021-05-28:	Less can filter what it shows to you (a thing I recently learned)
2021-05-27:	Some thoughts on having set up a personal Alertmanager instance Being able to see links I've visited in Firefox is startlingly better
2021-05-26:	Working around an AMDGPU automatic fan control problem on my Radeon RX 550
2021-05-24:	Rust is a wave of the future Why we don't have management connections to our switches (an old story)
2021-05-23:	Our three generations of network implementations (over the time I've been here)
2021-05-22:	I don't know how much memory our Prometheus setup needs
2021-05-20:	The temptation to start using some Python type hints
2021-05-19:	Fedora has significantly fumbled DKMS handling for Linux kernel modules Speculating on why DKMS and other Linux things are large shell scripts
2021-05-17:	Unix job control has some dark corners and challenging cases, illustrated
2021-05-16:	Unix job control and its interactions with TTYs (and shells)
2021-05-15:	Downsampling your metrics data is a compromise (what we could call a 'hack') The size of our Prometheus setup as of May 2021
2021-05-14:	The Bourne shell and Bash aren't the right languages for larger programs
2021-05-12:	The Bourne shell lets you set variables in `if` expressions Firefox and the challenge of trying to make visited links clearly visible
2021-05-10:	Errors during SMTP conversations aren't trustworthy, illustrated
2021-05-09:	DKMS built one of my kernel modules for the wrong kernel Storing ZFS send streams is not a good backup method
2021-05-08:	It's pleasantly easy to install PyPy yourself (from their binaries)
2021-05-07:	Understanding OpenSSH's various options around keys and key algorithms
2021-05-06:	The different types of modern (2021) SSH keys (and some opinions)
2021-05-05:	It's possible for Firefox to forget about:config preferences you've set
2021-05-03:	Our future upgrade wave of Ubuntu 18.04 machines Understanding OpenSSH's future deprecation of the 'ssh-rsa' signature scheme
2021-05-02:	Realizing one general way to construct symmetric ciphers

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