progscrape: utcc.utoronto.ca

We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer

30 hours ago utcc.utoronto.ca security

Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet

12 days ago utcc.utoronto.ca security ssh

The history and use of /etc/glob in early Unixes

17 days ago utcc.utoronto.ca historical unix

There are different sorts of WireGuard setups with different difficulties

24 days ago utcc.utoronto.ca

I think Go union type proposals should start with their objectives

45 days ago utcc.utoronto.ca go plt

A gotcha with importing ZFS pools and NFS exports on Linux

37 days ago utcc.utoronto.ca linux

Good union types in Go would probably need types without a zero value

58 days ago utcc.utoronto.ca go

Some things that make languages easy (or not) to embed in Unix shell scripts (2022)

45 days ago utcc.utoronto.ca unix

When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it

38 days ago utcc.utoronto.ca

The long (after)life of some of our old fileserver hardware

45 days ago utcc.utoronto.ca

Maybe we should explicitly schedule rebooting our fleet every so often

51 days ago utcc.utoronto.ca

Buffered IO in Unix before V7 introduced stdio

54 days ago utcc.utoronto.ca unix

We have an unusual concern when we use Let's Encrypt

43 days ago utcc.utoronto.ca

Union types ('enum types') would be complicated in Go

58 days ago utcc.utoronto.ca go

Python type hints may not be not for me in practice

2 months ago utcc.utoronto.ca python

Losing NFS locks and the SunOS SIGLOST signal

2 months ago utcc.utoronto.ca illumos networking signal

The missing text focused programming environment

2 months ago utcc.utoronto.ca editors emacs

Python type hints are probably "worth it" for me

2 months ago utcc.utoronto.ca python

I feel that NAT is inevitable even with IPv6

2 months ago utcc.utoronto.ca ipv6 networking

IPv6 networks do apparently get probed

2 months ago utcc.utoronto.ca ipv6

The history of Unix's ioctl and signal about window sizes

2 months ago utcc.utoronto.ca signal

Potential pragmatic handling of partial matches for HTTP conditional GET

3 months ago utcc.utoronto.ca http performance web

The question of whether to still allow HTTP/1.0 requests or block them

3 months ago utcc.utoronto.ca security web

Go's new small language features from 1.22 and 1.23 are nice

3 months ago utcc.utoronto.ca go

Traditionally, init on Unix was not a service manager as such

3 months ago utcc.utoronto.ca

Daemonization in Unix programs is probably about restarting programs