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Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my https site

about 1 year ago

At the start of 2023, I wrote a post talking about why...

rsync's defaults are not always enough

about 1 year ago

rsync is one of those tools which is rather useful. It saves...

Calculating rollovers

about 1 year ago

I've long had a list of "magic numbers" which show up in...

Feedback: working state, mobile rollovers, and IP filtering

about 1 year ago

I get questions from people who read my posts and sometimes I...

Documenting what you're willing to support (and not)

12 months ago

Sometimes, you just need to write down what you're willing to do...

Squashing my dumb bugs and why I log build ids

11 months ago

I screwed something up the other day and figured it had enough...

Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones

10 months ago

If you're running Debian 12 and Postgres, you're in or around the...

Recreating the US/* time zone situation

10 months ago

Yesterday, I wrote about screwing something up, so naturally THE ONE came...

Sometimes you want to skip that CGI Status header

10 months ago

I'm on a roll with these "check out what I screwed up"...

Do not turn off

8 months ago

This picture is from a different company and is from 2017, but...

More tales about outages and numeric limits

7 months ago

Outages, you say? Of course I have stories about outages, and limits,...

Making the most of a dumb fax switcher box in the old days

6 months ago

Back in the days of analog phones and fax machines, I used...