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I've had a change of heart regarding employee metrics
4 Nov 2024 | original ↗
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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