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How I install personal versions of programs on Unix

The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters

My pessimism about changes to error handling in Go (but they'll happen)

If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling

I don't think error handling is a solved problem in language design

Some notes on Grafana Loki's new "structured metadata"

The web browser as an enabler of minority platforms

JSON has become today's machine-readable output format on Unix

The practical (Unix) problems with .cache and its friends

We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer

Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet

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

There are different sorts of WireGuard setups with different difficulties

I think Go union type proposals should start with their objectives

A gotcha with importing ZFS pools and NFS exports on Linux

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

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

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

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

Maybe we should explicitly schedule rebooting our fleet every so often

Buffered IO in Unix before V7 introduced stdio

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

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

Python type hints may not be not for me in practice

Losing NFS locks and the SunOS SIGLOST signal

The missing text focused programming environment

Python type hints are probably "worth it" for me

I feel that NAT is inevitable even with IPv6

IPv6 networks do apparently get probed

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

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