Wandering Thoughts archives

2023-08-31:	The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant
2023-08-30:	Email anti-spam (and really all anti-spam) is all heuristics now
2023-08-29:	Experiencing the increase in web bandwidth usage for myself
2023-08-28:	Go 1.22's (likely) new `reflect.TypeFor()` generic function Link: quoting strings and breaking strings across multiple lines in YAML
2023-08-27:	YAML is an okay enough configuration file format
2023-08-26:	Linux NFS v4 idmapd domain handling and server/client agreement
2023-08-25:	Enabling NFS v4 on an Ubuntu 22.04 fileserver (instead of just NFS v3)
2023-08-24:	One challenge in reducing TLS certificate lifetimes down to 90 days
2023-08-23:	Giving Linux mountd a '--no-nfs-version 4' argument does nothing
2023-08-22:	We have a NFS v3 locking problem on our Ubuntu 22.04 servers
2023-08-21:	Packaging software is something that takes work
2023-08-20:	Unix is both a technology and an idea
2023-08-19:	CLAs create different issues than making (small) open source contributions
2023-08-18:	Contributor License Agreements (CLAs) impede modest contributions
2023-08-17:	What I need to SSH to old hosts on Fedora 37 (and probably later)
2023-08-16:	A pointless review of my (current) favorite mouse, the Contour optical mouse
2023-08-15:	Maybe we shouldn't default to allowing logins on machines
2023-08-14:	A brief brush with writing and using Python type hints
2023-08-13:	The tangled problems of asking for people's '(full) legal name'
2023-08-12:	Getting my backup Internet connection through BlueTooth on Linux
2023-08-11:	Some problems with 'first name' and 'last name' fields in data
2023-08-10:	Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages are served with
2023-08-09:	A program's (effective) log messages can have many sources
2023-08-08:	Programs shouldn't commit to fixed and predictable log messages
2023-08-07:	Good RPC systems versus basic 'RPC systems'
2023-08-06:	Monitoring your logs is mostly a tarpit
2023-08-05:	How the rc shell handles whitespace in various contexts
2023-08-04:	On Linux, NFS v4 mounts are a different filesystem type than NFS (v3) mounts
2023-08-03:	Prometheus scrape failures can cause alerts to be 'resolved'
2023-08-02:	The Prometheus host agent's metrics for systemd unit restarts
2023-08-01:	Turning off the sidebar of Firefox's built in PDF viewer

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