Wandering Thoughts archives

2025-01-31:	Modern languages and bad packaging outcomes at scale
2025-01-30:	The tradeoffs of having an internal unauthenticated SMTP server
2025-01-29:	Our well-prepared phish spammer may have been chasing lucrative prey
2025-01-28:	We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer
2025-01-27:	How to accidentally get yourself with '`find ... -name something*`'
2025-01-26:	Some learning experiences with HTTP cookies in practice
2025-01-25:	Syndication feeds here are now rate-limited on a per-IP basis
2025-01-24:	Languages don't version themselves using semantic versioning
2025-01-23:	Sometimes you need to (or have to) run old binaries of programs
2025-01-22:	More features for web page generation systems doing URL remapping
2025-01-21:	A change in the handling of PYTHONPATH between Python 3.10 and 3.12
2025-01-20:	The (potential) complexity of good runqueue latency measurement in Linux
2025-01-19:	Sometimes print-based debugging is your only choice
2025-01-18:	Some ways to restrict who can log in via OpenSSH and how they authenticate
2025-01-17:	Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet
2025-01-16:	Some stuff about how Apache's mod_wsgi runs your Python apps (as of 5.0)
2025-01-15:	(Multiple) inheritance in Python and implicit APIs
2025-01-14:	My bug reports are mostly done for work these days
2025-01-13:	A mystery with Django under Apache's mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 24.04
2025-01-12:	The history and use of `/etc/glob` in early Unixes
2025-01-11:	IMAP clients can vary in their reactions to IMAP errors
2025-01-10:	The problem with combining DNS CNAME records and anything else
2025-01-09:	Realizing why Go reflection restricts what struct fields can be modified
2025-01-08:	Using tcpdump to see only incoming or outgoing traffic
2025-01-07:	What a FreeBSD kernel message about your bridge means
2025-01-06:	The issue with DNF 5 and script output in Fedora 41
2025-01-05:	WireGuard's AllowedIPs aren't always the (WireGuard) routes you want
2025-01-04:	There are different sorts of WireGuard setups with different difficulties
2025-01-03:	The programmable web browser was and is inevitable
2025-01-02:	Rejecting email at SMTP time based on the From: header address
2025-01-01:	The modern web is why web browsers don't have "nice things" (platform APIs)

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