Wandering Thoughts archives

2022-01-31:	Git 2.34 has changed how you configure fast-forward only pulls and rebasing
2022-01-30:	A thesis: most websites are implicitly designed with a short lifetime
2022-01-29:	The reason Unix has the argv[0] issue (and API)
2022-01-28:	Some things on Django's CSRF protection, sessions, and `REMOTE_USER`
2022-01-27:	The Linux kernel, simultaneous multithreading, and process scheduling Django and Apache HTTP Basic Authentication (and `REMOTE_USER`)
2022-01-25:	Giving things an IP address is dangerous (to them) Go generics are going to be both simple and complex (as of Go 1.18)
2022-01-23:	DNS queries to external sources do fail every so often out of the blue
2022-01-22:	Modern public TLS is a quite different thing than it used to be
2022-01-21:	Sorting out the situation with Intel desktop CPUs and hyper-threading
2022-01-20:	I'm using journalctl's --since option now to speed up checking logs
2022-01-19:	When I might expect simultaneous multithreading to help
2022-01-18:	Logs are invisible (at least most of the time and by default)
2022-01-17:	Pipx and a problem with changing the system Python version
2022-01-16:	HTTPS is still optional, at least sort of
2022-01-15:	You should do lint checks on your Prometheus alert (and recording) rules
2022-01-14:	Link: Histograms in Grafana (a howto) Understanding what a DKIM (spam) replay attack is
2022-01-13:	In practice, there are two types of window managers in modern X
2022-01-12:	My sunk cost fallacy relationship with my home desktop
2022-01-11:	Some things about Prometheus Alertmanager's notification metrics
2022-01-10:	The complexity of seeing if your Prometheus Alertmanager is truly healthy
2022-01-09:	I have mixed feelings about the Go `time` package's time formatting strings
2022-01-08:	Good web scraping is not just about avoiding load
2022-01-07:	In practice, Debian (and Ubuntu) have fixed minimum system UIDs and GIDs
2022-01-06:	An annoyance with Debian postinstall scripts during package upgrades
2022-01-05:	Some things about Dovecot, its index files, and the IMAP SELECT command
2022-01-04:	Some ways to implement `/dev/fd` in Unix kernels
2022-01-03:	The important Unix idea of the "virtual filesystem switch"
2022-01-02:	Why "process substitution" is a late feature in Unix shells Why I'm not interested in rolling back to snapshots of Linux root filesystems

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