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I've had a change of heart regarding employee metrics

4 Nov 2024 | original ↗

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Set me right on whether caring is even possible

30 Oct 2024 | original ↗

Friday night feed reader score report

26 Oct 2024 | original ↗

sshfs isn't really what I wanted for my backup situation

22 Oct 2024 | original ↗

Janky remote backups without root on the far end

21 Oct 2024 | original ↗

Let the network tell you where you are: a nerd snipe story

1 Oct 2024 | original ↗

Thoughts on working inside a data center suite

25 Sept 2024 | original ↗

More jabbering from me about non-clown hosting

23 Sept 2024 | original ↗

A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff

23 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Place name mappings probably need a time dimension too

17 Sept 2024 | original ↗

My Raspberry Pi-based temperature tracking project

17 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Another feed reader score roundup

14 Sept 2024 | original ↗

"SRE" doesn't seem to mean anything useful any more

4 Sept 2024 | original ↗

A common bug in a bunch of feed readers

18 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Decoding an old SkyScan wireless weather sensor

14 Aug 2024 | original ↗

An update on another feed reader from its author

12 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Feedback on github, mangling code, and a feed reader

11 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Feedback on feed stuff and those pesky blue screens

3 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Two months of feed reader behavior analysis

3 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Unintentionally troubleshooting a new way to filter traffic

18 Jul 2024 | original ↗

What happened to my /edu page, and why it came back

30 Jun 2024 | original ↗

How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins

28 Jun 2024 | original ↗

A high-level view of all of this feed reader stuff

28 Jun 2024 | original ↗

Feed reader score project participants: I made a mistake

25 Jun 2024 | original ↗

Leaking URLs to the clown

24 Jun 2024 | original ↗

Debian/Raspbian rngd with -S0 will bite you after a week

23 Jun 2024 | original ↗

Can you run in a tight loop and still be well-behaved?

13 Jun 2024 | original ↗

Some early results for feed reader behavior monitoring

11 Jun 2024 | original ↗

Reader feedback: feed reader scores and "like" buttons

3 Jun 2024 | original ↗

The feed reader score service is now online

31 May 2024 | original ↗

I'm going to give this "reader score" thing a spin

29 May 2024 | original ↗

So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors

28 May 2024 | original ↗

SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and systemd magic?

16 May 2024 | original ↗

Reader feedback on autoconf and bugginess in general

1 May 2024 | original ↗

Lots of feedback about /bin/true, and more empty file fun

1 May 2024 | original ↗

Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires

30 Apr 2024 | original ↗

Hitting every branch on the way down

30 Apr 2024 | original ↗

Feedback: lots more WPA3, and then some

27 Apr 2024 | original ↗

C++ time_point wackiness across platforms

25 Apr 2024 | original ↗

Going in circles without a real-time clock

10 Apr 2024 | original ↗

autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon

3 Apr 2024 | original ↗

Sometimes the dam breaks even after plenty of warnings

5 Mar 2024 | original ↗

Today's only half of the leap year fun

29 Feb 2024 | original ↗

1 << n vs. 1U << n and a cell phone autofocus problem

25 Feb 2024 | original ↗

Why I still have an old-school cert on my https site

22 Feb 2024 | original ↗

A vintage network attack called smurf

21 Feb 2024 | original ↗

LDAP differ feedback and the "666" I missed

14 Feb 2024 | original ↗

Reliability stuff worth reading

9 Feb 2024 | original ↗

Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat

9 Feb 2024 | original ↗

Stamping production binaries with build info

6 Feb 2024 | original ↗

WPA3 on Raspberry Pi 3B+, 4B and 5B with iwd (or not...)

24 Jan 2024 | original ↗

Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours

24 Jan 2024 | original ↗

Asahi Linux folks are doing us a solid with WPA3 fixes

24 Jan 2024 | original ↗

A year-end wrapup of responses to reader feedback

26 Dec 2023 | original ↗

Smashing the stack for pain and misery

18 Dec 2023 | original ↗

Patching around a C++ crash with a little bit of Lua

7 Dec 2023 | original ↗

clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run

1 Dec 2023 | original ↗

That time Verisign typo-squatted all of .com and .net

28 Nov 2023 | original ↗

My rants about TP-Link Omada networking products

18 Nov 2023 | original ↗

Still no love for WPA3 on the Raspberry Pi 5

7 Nov 2023 | original ↗

S p a m m y s y s c a l l s in strace dumps

21 Oct 2023 | original ↗

getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy

17 Oct 2023 | original ↗

Administrivia: new page/feed generator is now live

13 Oct 2023 | original ↗

Feedback: the feed seems just fine...

12 Oct 2023 | original ↗

Fulfilling a reader's request for my "dot files"

12 Oct 2023 | original ↗

I screwed something up in that last post about Hue

12 Oct 2023 | original ↗

The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity

12 Oct 2023 | original ↗

ASCII protocol buffers as config files

12 Oct 2023 | original ↗

Expressing my laziness in concrete ways

12 Oct 2023 | original ↗

Administrivia: HTML generation and my general clowniness

12 Oct 2023 | original ↗

More than five whys and "layer eight" problems

12 Oct 2023 | original ↗

Where the time went during a "laptop" coding interview

10 Oct 2023 | original ↗

Missing the point completely

9 Oct 2023 | original ↗

That simple script is still someone's bad day

9 Oct 2023 | original ↗

The customer stuck due to a hurricane who needed ssh

21 Sept 2023 | original ↗

Memories of a really goofy phone from the late 80s

20 Sept 2023 | original ↗

Add extra stuff to a "standard" encoding? Sure, why not.

20 Sept 2023 | original ↗

Feedback: I try to answer "how to become a systems engineer"

31 May 2023 | original ↗

Administrivia: new web hosting arrangements

27 May 2023 | original ↗

Reader feedback: "bad" names, !main(), and Mastodon

10 Apr 2023 | original ↗

Escalating via post-it note just to get some health checks

9 Apr 2023 | original ↗

Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks

16 Mar 2023 | original ↗

Who needs main() anyway?

16 Mar 2023 | original ↗

WPA3: no go on Raspberry Pi (plus some Mac gotchas)

12 Mar 2023 | original ↗

More on geo-tagging photos with a time element

12 Mar 2023 | original ↗

Not quite a successful prediction about tracking Apple stuff

12 Mar 2023 | original ↗

Load 'em up and throw 'em under the bus

9 Mar 2023 | original ↗

AirPlay in a high-density environment isn't great

6 Mar 2023 | original ↗

Feeds, updates, 200s, 304s, and now 429s

6 Mar 2023 | original ↗

Determine durations with monotonic clocks if available

6 Mar 2023 | original ↗

You can do a lot with an empty file

24 Feb 2023 | original ↗

Some people don't deserve access to the machine room

24 Feb 2023 | original ↗

Paying a visit to planet BSD

24 Feb 2023 | original ↗

Tasks, lists, and promises

24 Feb 2023 | original ↗

Free associating from 'df' to RCE

24 Feb 2023 | original ↗

Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money

24 Feb 2023 | original ↗

The night of 1000 alerts (but only on the Linux boxes)

24 Feb 2023 | original ↗

Getting it or not getting it, and then what?

24 Feb 2023 | original ↗

Short stories from outage reports

24 Feb 2023 | original ↗

A reader asks how to avoid working for evil

24 Feb 2023 | original ↗

Run it XOR use it, part two

24 Feb 2023 | original ↗

Systems design and being bitten by edge-triggering

24 Feb 2023 | original ↗

Unintentionally BREAKing a serial console

24 Feb 2023 | original ↗

Tonight's rabbit hole: time math and 32 bit longs

24 Feb 2023 | original ↗

Another look at the steps for issuing a cert

24 Feb 2023 | original ↗

Echo reply (an incomplete update on things)

29 Aug 2022 | original ↗

Q&A on 1972

25 Jun 2022 | original ↗

1972.

24 Jun 2022 | original ↗

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