Wandering Thoughts archives

2024-12-31:	My unusual X desktop wasn't made 'from scratch' in a conventional sense
2024-12-30:	I'm firmly attached to a mouse and (overlapping) windows
2024-12-29:	My screens now have areas that are 'good' and 'bad' for me
2024-12-28:	In an unconfigured Vim, I want to do '`:set paste`' right away
2024-12-27:	Cgroup V2 memory limits and their potential for thrashing
2024-12-26:	WireGuard on OpenBSD just works (at least as a VPN server)
2024-12-25:	x86 servers, ATX power supply control, and reboots, resets, and power cycles
2024-12-24:	The TLS certificate multi-file problem (for automatic updates)
2024-12-23:	A gotcha with importing ZFS pools and NFS exports on Linux (as of ZFS 2.3.0)
2024-12-22:	Two views of Python type hints and catching bugs
2024-12-21:	When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it
2024-12-20:	Remembering to make my local changes emit log messages when they act
2024-12-19:	Short lived TLS certificates and graceful rollover in web servers
2024-12-18:	Browser feed reader addons don't seem to do very well on caching
2024-12-17:	We have an unusual concern when we use Let's Encrypt
2024-12-16:	Some notes on "closed interfaces" in Go
2024-12-15:	I think Go union type proposals should start with their objectives
2024-12-14:	ZFS on Linux and block IO limits show some limits of being out of the kernel
2024-12-13:	Cgroup V2's cpu.idle setting versus process niceness
2024-12-12:	Improving my desktop's responsiveness with the cgroup V2 'cpu.idle' setting
2024-12-11:	The long (after)life of some of our old fileserver hardware
2024-12-10:	My wish for VFS or filesystem level cgroup (v2) IO limits
2024-12-09:	Maybe we should explicitly schedule rebooting our fleet every so often
2024-12-08:	Unix's buffered IO in assembly and in C
2024-12-07:	PCIe cards we use and have used in our servers
2024-12-06:	Common motherboards are supporting more and more M.2 NVMe drive slots
2024-12-05:	Buffered IO in Unix before V7 introduced stdio
2024-12-04:	Sorting out 'PCIe bifurcation' and how it interacts with NVMe drives
2024-12-03:	The modern world of server serial ports, BMCs, and IPMI Serial over LAN
2024-12-02:	Good union types in Go would probably need types without a zero value
2024-12-01:	Union types ('enum types') would be complicated in Go

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