- Fri 12 July 2019 — spinning disks are still cost-effective
- Tue 25 June 2019 — sysvinit in debian buster
- Thu 30 May 2019 — intuitive interfaces
- Wed 29 May 2019 — falsehoods non-programmers believe about programming
- Fri 17 May 2019 — the best politics are local politics
- Wed 15 May 2019 — low power cpus
- Wed 17 April 2019 — leaving Amazon reviews: a policy
- Fri 22 March 2019 — minimum awesome product
- Thu 21 March 2019 — dominant data formats
- Tue 26 February 2019 — technology marches onwards
- Wed 06 February 2019 — new tagline
- Sat 02 February 2019 — it seemed reasonable at the time
- Tue 22 January 2019 — how much memory do you need?
- Sat 15 December 2018 — linux install: HP Envy 13z
- Wed 12 December 2018 — The Difference Between Peak and Sustained Usage
- Sat 17 November 2018 — cycle of reincarnation
- Mon 05 November 2018 — search engines extend your brain
- Fri 02 November 2018 — hyperoptimizing idiots
- Mon 22 October 2018 — advice on buying firewall hardware
- Sat 20 October 2018 — FIOS one year later
- Thu 18 October 2018 — use pull quotes properly
- Wed 10 October 2018 — all email disclaimers are utterly useless
- Fri 21 September 2018 — why computer security is terrible, a partial explanation
- Tue 28 August 2018 — food at my workplace
- Sun 19 August 2018 — move fast and break things
- Sun 19 August 2018 — how I found jobs
- Sat 04 August 2018 — kitchen philosophy
- Sun 29 July 2018 — Amazon Kindle Fire HD10 microreview
- Thu 26 July 2018 — replace procmail with maildrop
- Thu 26 July 2018 — a nice improvement in maildrop
- Thu 12 July 2018 — commutes are worth money
- Mon 09 July 2018 — zfs is pretty good
- Thu 28 June 2018 — moving
- Thu 24 May 2018 — GDPR thingy
- Thu 17 May 2018 — lies, revisited
- Tue 15 May 2018 — taking names
- Sun 29 April 2018 — the game of competing hypotheses
- Sat 14 April 2018 — on the spontaneous use of statistics
- Sat 07 April 2018 — engineering management advice
- Wed 28 March 2018 — zfs internal error
- Wed 14 March 2018 — quote of the day n+1th
- Wed 28 February 2018 — the cost of GPL is not in dollars
- Wed 21 February 2018 — revisiting Google Fi
- Tue 16 January 2018 — time is not money
- Wed 27 December 2017 — books at year end
- Thu 21 December 2017 — a most important job
- Tue 12 December 2017 — do not drink and sysadmin
- Thu 23 November 2017 — neutral restructuring
- Sun 12 November 2017 — wireguard setup
- Sat 28 October 2017 — Mac OS X DNS prefers IPv6
- Wed 04 October 2017 — switching ISPs
- Thu 07 September 2017 — technology maturity
- Wed 06 September 2017 — resiliency
- Thu 10 August 2017 — naming knives
- Thu 10 August 2017 — the courage of convictions: competition
- Fri 21 July 2017 — interpretations
- Thu 13 July 2017 — you cannot outsource your core competency
- Mon 10 July 2017 — a general solution to a general problem
- Sat 08 July 2017 — recently read
- Sat 24 June 2017 — civic failure modes
- Mon 12 June 2017 — the one true method of email handling
- Sun 11 June 2017 — towards a sustainable software policy
- Mon 22 May 2017 — mutt pattern for threads containing new messages
- Sat 20 May 2017 — quoting myself
- Mon 15 May 2017 — monocultures are efficient and fragile
- Wed 10 May 2017 — philosophy as expressed in an MP3 player
- Tue 04 April 2017 — unix philosophy
- Sun 02 April 2017 — a 2 line bash prompt
- Mon 13 March 2017 — nobody wants backups
- Thu 09 March 2017 — still not interested in cybercoders
- Tue 28 February 2017 — tracing calls
- Fri 24 February 2017 — I recommend Google Fi
- Sat 18 February 2017 — pandoc for the win
- Sun 22 January 2017 — slapping at gnats
- Fri 13 January 2017 — revisiting a new firewall
- Fri 16 December 2016 — modern cpus
- Wed 30 November 2016 — Nintendo's contactless brushpass and dead drops
- Tue 22 November 2016 — IOT security: the key and the castle
- Tue 22 November 2016 — how to name your software product
- Wed 09 November 2016 — fight
- Thu 03 November 2016 — make the tweak, test the tweak, stop
- Sun 30 October 2016 — technical escalation
- Wed 26 October 2016 — ran out of cards
- Thu 29 September 2016 — infosec is simple
- Mon 26 September 2016 — the commonweal
- Mon 26 September 2016 — secrets of mutt
- Mon 19 September 2016 — printer advice
- Thu 01 September 2016 — ten x
- Tue 30 August 2016 — trusted, not necessarily trustworthy
- Fri 19 August 2016 — enthusiasm and frustration
- Wed 17 August 2016 — Debian backports pinning
- Fri 12 August 2016 — getting the last word in
- Thu 11 August 2016 — optimizing for the wrong thing
- Sat 06 August 2016 — swiftly, he said
- Fri 05 August 2016 — books: to be read
- Fri 15 July 2016 — do they teach recruiters to be aggressive?
- Tue 05 July 2016 — the problem with broadwayhd
- Sun 19 June 2016 — recently read books
- Tue 07 June 2016 — security strategies
- Fri 20 May 2016 — not interested in cybercoders
- Thu 19 May 2016 — quote of the day
- Mon 16 May 2016 — i have an idea
- Fri 13 May 2016 — the difference between a trivial project and a serious project
- Fri 15 April 2016 — new eyes catch bugs
- Mon 11 April 2016 — once upon a time
- Thu 07 April 2016 — containers need dependency management
- Mon 28 March 2016 — best general advice
- Thu 17 March 2016 — the tiniest tools are sometimes worthwhile
- Wed 16 March 2016 — how can you listen with those bananas in your ears?
- Sun 13 March 2016 — developing technical intuition
- Mon 07 March 2016 — who are we connecting to?
- Tue 01 March 2016 — Let's Encrypt works for me
- Sat 27 February 2016 — questions for packaging systems
- Fri 26 February 2016 — more bandwidth, please
- Tue 09 February 2016 — quote of note iii
- Fri 05 February 2016 — quote of note ii
- Fri 05 February 2016 — the ops in devops means operations
- Mon 01 February 2016 — what to do in a giant duck emergency
- Wed 27 January 2016 — quote of note
- Wed 27 January 2016 — the life of a sysadmin is intense
- Sat 23 January 2016 — reflections on black mirrors
- Fri 15 January 2016 — do not do this
- Sun 10 January 2016 — comments
- Sun 10 January 2016 — it might be workflow
- Sat 09 January 2016 — why don't I blog more?
- Mon 23 November 2015 — a musical analogy
- Thu 19 November 2015 — observations on the speed of cats
- Tue 17 November 2015 — books books books
- Fri 23 October 2015 — the small print is never in your favor
- Mon 05 October 2015 — how is a tech recruiter different from a used car salesman?
- Sun 20 September 2015 — the no-falls bike riding method
- Fri 11 September 2015 — non-lethal anti-drone defenses
- Mon 07 September 2015 — really good books
- Wed 29 July 2015 — Cotap is evil
- Fri 24 July 2015 — books that don't stink
- Tue 26 May 2015 — Neal Stephenson's new book stinks
- Fri 22 May 2015 — server security certificate semi-pro tips
- Fri 01 May 2015 — optimizing the wrong thing
- Mon 30 March 2015 — in which I talk about a smartphone
- Tue 17 February 2015 — political correctness
- Wed 21 January 2015 — more SF/F, some very good indeed.
- Thu 15 January 2015 — IPv6 is relatively easy
- Fri 19 December 2014 — what I've been reading
- Sat 13 December 2014 — lies, damned lies and benchmarks
- Thu 11 December 2014 — on being sick
- Thu 04 December 2014 — RIP Boing Boing (1995-2013)
- Sat 22 November 2014 — easy vs complete: system stats
- Tue 18 November 2014 — the real problem with systemd
- Sat 15 November 2014 — want ads for technical jobs
- Fri 14 November 2014 — when moving isn't moving so much
- Sun 09 November 2014 — a new firewall
- Thu 30 October 2014 — two stage mail filtering
- Tue 14 October 2014 — removing systemd from a Debian jessie system
- Sat 04 October 2014 — neuroethics in the era of advanced consciousness technologies
- Sat 27 September 2014 — amateur IT
- Thu 25 September 2014 — fail2ban and the repeat offender
- Thu 25 September 2014 — shellshock explanations
- Wed 24 September 2014 — first post
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