Wandering Thoughts archives

2024-01-31:	Using IPv6 has quietly become reliable (for me)
2024-01-30:	Putting a Python executable in venvs is probably a necessary thing
2024-01-29:	What I think goes wrong periodically with our Grafana Loki on restarts Servers are (probably) starting to drop serial ports
2024-01-27:	Getting the Python LSP server working with venvs the brute force way
2024-01-26:	Histogram data is most useful when they also provide true totals
2024-01-25:	In Go, I'm going to avoid using '`any`' as an actual type
2024-01-24:	The cooling advantage that CPU integrated graphics has
2024-01-23:	CGI programs have an attractive one step deployment model
2024-01-22:	Desktop PC motherboards and the costs of extra features
2024-01-21:	The expected size of a gap in a Prometheus range vector (sometimes)
2024-01-20:	An example of how Prometheus's delta() function will extrapolate time ranges
2024-01-19:	A Django gotcha with Python 3 and the encoding of CharFields
2024-01-18:	Notes on the Linux kernel's 'irq' pressure stall information and meaning
2024-01-17:	Some interesting metrics you can get from cgroup V2 systems
2024-01-16:	What Prometheus exporters we use (as of the end of 2023)
2024-01-15:	How we monitor that our wireless network is still there in places
2024-01-14:	Git branches as a social construct
2024-01-13:	Indexed archive formats and selective restores
2024-01-12:	What we use ZFS on Linux's ZED 'zedlets' for
2024-01-11:	An old Unix mistake you could make when signaling `init` (PID 1)
2024-01-10:	MFA today is both 'simple' and non-trivial work
2024-01-09:	How far back we want our metrics to go depends on what they're for
2024-01-08:	One of the things limiting the evolution of WebPKI is web servers
2024-01-07:	TLS certificate expiry times are fundamentally a hack
2024-01-06:	Some ballpark numbers for fun on filling filesystem cache with NFS traffic
2024-01-05:	Having a virtual machine host server has been quite useful
2024-01-04:	'Unmaintained' (open source) code represents a huge amount of value
2024-01-03:	Ten years isn't long enough for maximum age settings
2024-01-02:	Why Unix's `lseek()` has that name instead of '`seek()`'
2024-01-01:	Alerting on our NTP servers having a high NTP stratum hasn't been useful

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