Wandering Thoughts archives

2022-02-28:	Firefox (Nightly) and the case of the fading scrollbars on Unix
2022-02-27:	Python's `os.environ` is surprisingly liberal in some ways
2022-02-26:	Unix environment variables (and the environment) are a fuzzy thing
2022-02-25:	The varying sizes of images on the web today, and remembering that
2022-02-24:	I've come to think that the Git index is a good thing
2022-02-23:	Some early notes on Dovecot namespaces (in Dovecot 2.2.33, currently)
2022-02-22:	A realization about using DNS sub-names in modern protocols like DMARC
2022-02-21:	Python's Global Interpreter Lock is not there for Python programmers
2022-02-20:	The history (sort of) of service management in Unix
2022-02-19:	The important things about Unix init systems aren't booting the system
2022-02-18:	Ubuntu limits the console kernel log level even on servers
2022-02-17:	The Linux kernel's message log levels are relatively meaningless
2022-02-16:	Lurking complexities in a web server that just serves static files
2022-02-15:	A major caution when using '`rsync -a`' to copy or move directory trees
2022-02-14:	Beware of trying to compare the size of subtrees with `du`
2022-02-13:	Go generics: the question of types made from generic types and type sets
2022-02-12:	The 'any' confusion in Go generics between type constraints and interfaces
2022-02-11:	Some things on strict and relaxed DKIM alignment in DMARC
2022-02-10:	Notes on using DKIM in a DMARC world
2022-02-09:	ZFS performance and modern solid state disk systems
2022-02-08:	Some SSD write volumes from my machines
2022-02-07:	What does it mean for a filesystem to perform well on modern hardware?
2022-02-06:	Checking out a Git branch further back than the head
2022-02-05:	Go 1.18 won't have a '`constraints`' package of generics helpers
2022-02-04:	Some notes on Grafana relative time ranges
2022-02-03:	The hassles today of having servers with disks that can't be hot-swapped
2022-02-02:	Disk drives can have weird SMART values for their power on hours
2022-02-01:	The likely long-term result of good on-host (host-based) firewalls

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