| 4. 11. 2024 | I've had a change of heart regarding employee metrics – rachelbythebay.com
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| 30. 10. 2024 | Set me right on whether caring is even possible – rachelbythebay.com
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| 26. 10. 2024 | Friday night feed reader score report – rachelbythebay.com
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| 22. 10. 2024 | sshfs isn't really what I wanted for my backup situation – rachelbythebay.com
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| 21. 10. 2024 | Janky remote backups without root on the far end – rachelbythebay.com
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| 1. 10. 2024 | Let the network tell you where you are: a nerd snipe story – rachelbythebay.com
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| 25. 9. 2024 | Thoughts on working inside a data center suite – rachelbythebay.com
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| 23. 9. 2024 | More jabbering from me about non-clown hosting – rachelbythebay.com
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| 23. 9. 2024 | A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff – rachelbythebay.com
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| 14. 9. 2024 | Another feed reader score roundup – rachelbythebay.com
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| 4. 9. 2024 | "SRE" doesn't seem to mean anything useful any more – rachelbythebay.com
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| 18. 8. 2024 | A common bug in a bunch of feed readers – rachelbythebay.com
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| 14. 8. 2024 | Decoding an old SkyScan wireless weather sensor – rachelbythebay.com
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| 12. 8. 2024 | An update on another feed reader from its author – rachelbythebay.com
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| 11. 8. 2024 | Feedback on github, mangling code, and a feed reader – rachelbythebay.com
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| 3. 8. 2024 | Feedback on feed stuff and those pesky blue screens – rachelbythebay.com
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| 3. 8. 2024 | Two months of feed reader behavior analysis – rachelbythebay.com
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| 18. 7. 2024 | Unintentionally troubleshooting a new way to filter traffic – rachelbythebay.com
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| 30. 6. 2024 | What happened to my /edu page, and why it came back – rachelbythebay.com
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| 28. 6. 2024 | How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins – rachelbythebay.com
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| 28. 6. 2024 | A high-level view of all of this feed reader stuff – rachelbythebay.com
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| 25. 6. 2024 | Feed reader score project participants: I made a mistake – rachelbythebay.com
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| 24. 6. 2024 | Leaking URLs to the clown – rachelbythebay.com
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| 13. 6. 2024 | Can you run in a tight loop and still be well-behaved? – rachelbythebay.com
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| 11. 6. 2024 | Some early results for feed reader behavior monitoring – rachelbythebay.com
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| 3. 6. 2024 | Reader feedback: feed reader scores and "like" buttons – rachelbythebay.com
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| 31. 5. 2024 | The feed reader score service is now online – rachelbythebay.com
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| 29. 5. 2024 | I'm going to give this "reader score" thing a spin – rachelbythebay.com
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| 28. 5. 2024 | So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors – rachelbythebay.com
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| 15. 5. 2024 | SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and systemd magic? – rachelbythebay.com
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| 1. 5. 2024 | Reader feedback on autoconf and bugginess in general – rachelbythebay.com
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| 30. 4. 2024 | Hitting every branch on the way down – rachelbythebay.com
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| 10. 4. 2024 | Going in circles without a real-time clock – rachelbythebay.com
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| 3. 4. 2024 | autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon – rachelbythebay.com
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| 22. 3. 2024 | Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires – rachelbythebay.com
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| 5. 3. 2024 | Sometimes the dam breaks even after plenty of warnings – rachelbythebay.com
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| 29. 2. 2024 | Today's only half of the leap year fun – rachelbythebay.com
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| 25. 2. 2024 | 1 << n vs. 1U << n and a cell phone autofocus problem – rachelbythebay.com
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| 21. 2. 2024 | A vintage network attack called smurf – rachelbythebay.com
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| 14. 2. 2024 | LDAP differ feedback and the "666" I missed – rachelbythebay.com
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| 9. 2. 2024 | Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat – rachelbythebay.com
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| 8. 2. 2024 | Feedback: lots more WPA3, and then some – rachelbythebay.com
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| 6. 2. 2024 | Stamping production binaries with build info – rachelbythebay.com
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| 24. 1. 2024 | WPA3 on Raspberry Pi 3B+, 4B and 5B with iwd (or not...) – rachelbythebay.com
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| 24. 1. 2024 | Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours – rachelbythebay.com
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| 1. 1. 2024 | C++ time_point wackiness across platforms – rachelbythebay.com
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| 26. 12. 2023 | A year-end wrapup of responses to reader feedback – rachelbythebay.com
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| 18. 12. 2023 | Smashing the stack for pain and misery – rachelbythebay.com
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| 7. 12. 2023 | Patching around a C++ crash with a little bit of Lua – rachelbythebay.com
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| 1. 12. 2023 | clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run – rachelbythebay.com
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| 28. 11. 2023 | That time Verisign typo-squatted all of .com and .net – rachelbythebay.com
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| 18. 11. 2023 | My rants about TP-Link Omada networking products – rachelbythebay.com
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| 7. 11. 2023 | Asahi Linux folks are doing us a solid with WPA3 fixes – rachelbythebay.com
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| 7. 11. 2023 | Still no love for WPA3 on the Raspberry Pi 5 – rachelbythebay.com
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| 17. 10. 2023 | getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy – rachelbythebay.com
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| 13. 10. 2023 | Administrivia: new page/feed generator is now live – rachelbythebay.com
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| 12. 10. 2023 | Feedback: the feed seems just fine... – rachelbythebay.com
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| 12. 10. 2023 | Fulfilling a reader's request for my "dot files" – rachelbythebay.com
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| 12. 10. 2023 | I screwed something up in that last post about Hue – rachelbythebay.com
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| 12. 10. 2023 | The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity – rachelbythebay.com
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| 12. 10. 2023 | ASCII protocol buffers as config files – rachelbythebay.com
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| 12. 10. 2023 | Expressing my laziness in concrete ways – rachelbythebay.com
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| 12. 10. 2023 | Administrivia: HTML generation and my general clowniness – rachelbythebay.com
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| 12. 10. 2023 | More than five whys and "layer eight" problems – rachelbythebay.com
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| 10. 10. 2023 | Human shielding and how things impact a person – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | Big company tale: six months for a list and a button – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | Followup on the dashboard story – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | A different take on the NUMA OOM killer story – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | Fun with glibc and the ctype.h functions – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | In the news today: *munch munch munch* – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | 'date -d' vs. 'date -s', and 'show foo' vs. 'clear foo' – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | An UPDATE without a WHERE, or something close to it – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | Disabling ssh password auth on Monterey is different – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | Now you can (try to) serve five terabytes, too – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | Years since 1900 + seven bits = breakage in 2028 – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | A terrible schema from a clueless programmer – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | But wait, there's more – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | The hardware behind my old mail filtering server – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | One way a builder culture can fail – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | Log libraries and the tendency to open holes in things – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | Fix the unit test and open a giant hole everywhere – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 10. 2023 | Where the time went during a "laptop" coding interview – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 9. 10. 2023 | Missing the point completely – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 9. 10. 2023 | That simple script is still someone's bad day – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 5. 10. 2023 | ASCII protocol buffers as config files – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 3. 10. 2023 | I screwed something up in that last post about Hue – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 26. 9. 2023 | The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 25. 9. 2023 | Expressing my laziness in concrete ways – rachelbythebay.com
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| 21. 9. 2023 | The customer stuck due to a hurricane who needed ssh – rachelbythebay.com
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| 21. 9. 2023 | The customer stuck due to a hurricane who needed ssh – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 20. 9. 2023 | Memories of a really goofy phone from the late 80s – rachelbythebay.com
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| 20. 9. 2023 | Memories of a really goofy phone from the late 80s – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 20. 9. 2023 | Add extra stuff to a "standard" encoding? Sure, why not. – rachelbythebay.com
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| 20. 9. 2023 | Add extra stuff to a "standard" encoding? Sure, why not. – rachelbythebay.com
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| 4. 6. 2023 | Feedback: the feed seems just fine... – rachelbythebay.com
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| 31. 5. 2023 | Feedback: I try to answer "how to become a systems engineer" – rachelbythebay.com
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| 31. 5. 2023 | Feedback: I try to answer "how to become a systems engineer" – rachelbythebay.com
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| 27. 5. 2023 | Administrivia: new web hosting arrangements – rachelbythebay.com
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| 27. 5. 2023 | Administrivia: new web hosting arrangements – rachelbythebay.com
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| 6. 5. 2023 | Fulfilling a reader's request for my "dot files" – rachelbythebay.com
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| 10. 4. 2023 | Reader feedback: "bad" names, !main(), and Mastodon – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 9. 4. 2023 | Escalating via post-it note just to get some health checks – rachelbythebay.com
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| 9. 4. 2023 | Escalating via post-it note just to get some health checks – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 31. 3. 2023 | Administrivia: HTML generation and my general clowniness – rachelbythebay.com
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| 16. 3. 2023 | Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks – rachelbythebay.com
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| 16. 3. 2023 | Who needs main() anyway? – rachelbythebay.com
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| 12. 3. 2023 | Place name mappings probably need a time dimension too – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 12. 3. 2023 | Lots of feedback about /bin/true, and more empty file fun – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 12. 3. 2023 | My "daily drivers", and what happened to Slackware here – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 12. 3. 2023 | One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 12. 3. 2023 | Universally unique identifier? Sometimes... – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 12. 3. 2023 | Debian/Raspbian rngd with -S0 will bite you after a week – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 12. 3. 2023 | WPA3: no go on Raspberry Pi (plus some Mac gotchas) – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 12. 3. 2023 | Reliability stuff worth reading – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 12. 3. 2023 | More on geo-tagging photos with a time element – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 12. 3. 2023 | Dumb things you can sometimes do with hard links – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 12. 3. 2023 | Not quite a successful prediction about tracking Apple stuff – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 12. 3. 2023 | A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 9. 3. 2023 | Load 'em up and throw 'em under the bus – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 9. 3. 2023 | Load 'em up and throw 'em under the bus – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 3. 2023 | Your devices and your employer – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 3. 2023 | Sometimes it really is just a bad battery – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 3. 2023 | A big hole in a big road ate one of my tires – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 3. 2023 | Asking nicely for root command execution (and getting it) – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 3. 2023 | Taking away the berries – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 3. 2023 | AirPlay in a high-density environment isn't great – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 3. 2023 | When Command-V (or CTRL-V) is your "copilot" – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 3. 2023 | A nice story about Unix processes "infecting" each other – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 3. 2023 | An old photo of a very large BBS – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 3. 2023 | My Raspberry Pi-based temperature tracking project – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 3. 2023 | Questions about construction trucks on train tracks – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 3. 2023 | Feeds, updates, 200s, 304s, and now 429s – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 3. 2023 | Determine durations with monotonic clocks if available – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Toll signs on 101 report your transponder setting – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | More stories about stacks of modems – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | A parasitic RPC service that broke core dumps – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | You can do a lot with an empty file – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Add 4740180 to the list of silly magic numbers – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Some people don't deserve access to the machine room – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Discussing two "holy war" topics at the same time – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | It's now your fault they don't know about it – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Paying a visit to planet BSD – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Tasks, lists, and promises – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Free associating from 'df' to RCE – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | C++ header files and inter-class connections – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Results without all of the brackets – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Returning values and errors – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | A twisted maze of dependencies – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Feedback: environments, old BBSes, Honda's 2022 bug – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | The night of 1000 alerts (but only on the Linux boxes) – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Getting it or not getting it, and then what? – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Short stories from outage reports – rachelbythebay.com
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| 24. 2. 2023 | A reader asks how to avoid working for evil – rachelbythebay.com
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| 24. 2. 2023 | Run it XOR use it, part two – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Systems design and being bitten by edge-triggering – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Unintentionally BREAKing a serial console – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | YYMMDDHHMM just overflowed a signed 32 bit int – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Tonight's rabbit hole: time math and 32 bit longs – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Another look at the steps for issuing a cert – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | S p a m m y s y s c a l l s in strace dumps – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 2. 2023 | Why I still have an old-school cert on my https site – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 14. 2. 2023 | More than five whys and "layer eight" problems – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 29. 1. 2023 | Determine durations with monotonic clocks if available – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 27. 1. 2023 | Tonight's rabbit hole: time math and 32 bit longs – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 27. 1. 2023 | Reader feedback: "bad" names, !main(), and Mastodon – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 21. 1. 2023 | Who needs main() anyway? – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 20. 1. 2023 | Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 19. 1. 2023 | Feeds, updates, 200s, 304s, and now 429s – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 1. 2023 | S p a m m y s y s c a l l s in strace dumps – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 5. 1. 2023 | Why I still have an old-school cert on my https site – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 5. 1. 2023 | Another look at the steps for issuing a cert – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 3. 1. 2023 | Not quite a successful prediction about tracking Apple stuff – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 26. 12. 2022 | Unintentionally BREAKing a serial console – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 23. 12. 2022 | WPA3: no go on Raspberry Pi (plus some Mac gotchas) – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 21. 12. 2022 | Systems design and being bitten by edge-triggering – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 16. 12. 2022 | Run it XOR use it, part two – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 5. 12. 2022 | A reader asks how to avoid working for evil – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 4. 12. 2022 | Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 3. 12. 2022 | Short stories from outage reports – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 11. 2022 | The night of 1000 alerts (but only on the Linux boxes) – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 18. 11. 2022 | Reliability stuff worth reading – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 18. 11. 2022 | Missing the point completely – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 11. 11. 2022 | Getting it or not getting it, and then what? – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 29. 8. 2022 | Echo reply (an incomplete update on things) – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 29. 8. 2022 | Echo reply (an incomplete update on things) – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 25. 6. 2022 | Q&A on 1972 – rachelbythebay.com
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| 25. 6. 2022 | Q&A on 1972 – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 6. 2022 | 1972. – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 6. 2022 | 1972. – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 21. 6. 2022 | More on geo-tagging photos with a time element – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 17. 6. 2022 | Free associating from 'df' to RCE – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 15. 6. 2022 | Place name mappings probably need a time dimension too – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 20. 5. 2022 | Tasks, lists, and promises – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 1. 5. 2022 | Paying a visit to planet BSD – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 27. 4. 2022 | My Raspberry Pi-based temperature tracking project – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 20. 4. 2022 | Debian/Raspbian rngd with -S0 will bite you after a week – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 7. 4. 2022 | Lots of feedback about /bin/true, and more empty file fun – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 4. 2022 | You can do a lot with an empty file – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 4. 2022 | That simple script is still someone's bad day – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 24. 3. 2022 | AirPlay in a high-density environment isn't great – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 22. 3. 2022 | Some people don't deserve access to the machine room – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 20. 3. 2022 | Where the time went during a "laptop" coding interview – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 18. 3. 2022 | Discussing two "holy war" topics at the same time – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 16. 3. 2022 | Dumb things you can sometimes do with hard links – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 15. 3. 2022 | More stories about stacks of modems – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 13. 3. 2022 | Taking away the berries – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 11. 3. 2022 | Looking at the outlying data points – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 11. 3. 2022 | Questions about construction trucks on train tracks – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 3. 2022 | Toll signs on 101 report your transponder setting – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 9. 3. 2022 | A parasitic RPC service that broke core dumps – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 8. 3. 2022 | A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 5. 3. 2022 | Editing stuff in prod – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 5. 3. 2022 | Editing stuff in prod – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 4. 3. 2022 | It's now your fault they don't know about it – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 2. 3. 2022 | Universally unique identifier? Sometimes... – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 1. 3. 2022 | C++ header files and inter-class connections – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 28. 2. 2022 | When Command-V (or CTRL-V) is your "copilot" – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 22. 2. 2022 | Results without all of the brackets – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 20. 2. 2022 | Returning values and errors – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 17. 2. 2022 | My "daily drivers", and what happened to Slackware here – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 17. 2. 2022 | A twisted maze of dependencies – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 15. 2. 2022 | Add 4740180 to the list of silly magic numbers – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 15. 2. 2022 | Feedback: environments, old BBSes, Honda's 2022 bug – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 10. 2. 2022 | A nice story about Unix processes "infecting" each other – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 28. 1. 2022 | An old photo of a very large BBS – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 28. 1. 2022 | One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 1. 1. 2022 | YYMMDDHHMM just overflowed a signed 32 bit int – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 25. 12. 2021 | Fix the unit test and open a giant hole everywhere – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 19. 12. 2021 | Log libraries and the tendency to open holes in things – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 3. 12. 2021 | One way a builder culture can fail – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 8. 11. 2021 | The hardware behind my old mail filtering server – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 7. 11. 2021 | But wait, there's more – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 7. 11. 2021 | A terrible schema from a clueless programmer – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 5. 11. 2021 | Years since 1900 + seven bits = breakage in 2028 – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 31. 10. 2021 | Now you can (try to) serve five terabytes, too – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 28. 10. 2021 | Disabling ssh password auth on Monterey is different – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 14. 10. 2021 | Looking at the outlying data points – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 12. 10. 2021 | An UPDATE without a WHERE, or something close to it – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 5. 10. 2021 | 'date -d' vs. 'date -s', and 'show foo' vs. 'clear foo' – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 4. 10. 2021 | In the news today: *munch munch munch* – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 30. 9. 2021 | Fun with glibc and the ctype.h functions – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 23. 9. 2021 | A different take on the NUMA OOM killer story – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 21. 9. 2021 | Apple's private relay service does not sit still – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 21. 9. 2021 | Apple's private relay service does not sit still – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 9. 2021 | Code runs on people – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 6. 9. 2021 | Code runs on people – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 2. 9. 2021 | Followup on the dashboard story – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 29. 8. 2021 | Big company tale: six months for a list and a button – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 23. 8. 2021 | Human shielding and how things impact a person – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 20. 8. 2021 | Your devices and your employer – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 20. 8. 2021 | Sometimes it really is just a bad battery – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 19. 8. 2021 | A big hole in a big road ate one of my tires – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 17. 8. 2021 | Asking nicely for root command execution (and getting it) – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 2. 8. 2021 | Reliability meeting experiences – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 2. 6. 2021 | Bad air quality data for a whole region – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 2. 6. 2021 | Please don't count outages (or SEVs, or whatever) – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 26. 5. 2021 | IRC: run it or use it, but try to avoid doing both – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 23. 5. 2021 | Reader feedback on CPUs: pay attention to those frequencies – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 23. 5. 2021 | How we talk about CPU (or processors, or cores, or...) – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 23. 5. 2021 | The chilling effect versus attempts to fix things – rachelbythebay.com
|
| 20. 5. 2021 | gmock and gtest on OpenBSD 6.9 hate each other – rachelbythebay.com
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| 12. 5. 2021 | Snackwatch: when credit card readers land at the office – rachelbythebay.com
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| 3. 5. 2021 | Python and me, or when in Rome... – rachelbythebay.com
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| 2. 5. 2021 | The Honest Troubleshooting Code of Conduct – rachelbythebay.com
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| 25. 3. 2021 | Compile times, and why "the obvious" might not be so – rachelbythebay.com
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| 11. 3. 2021 | Mac upgrade opened sshd to brute force password attacks – rachelbythebay.com
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| 27. 2. 2021 | A Saturday waste of CPU cycles: building time_t values – rachelbythebay.com
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| 22. 2. 2021 | An incomplete list of complaints about real code – rachelbythebay.com
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| 19. 2. 2021 | Unfortunate things about performance reviews – rachelbythebay.com
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| 9. 2. 2021 | I tried to fix it, and failed miserably – rachelbythebay.com
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| 4. 2. 2021 | Push some big numbers through your system and look for bugs – rachelbythebay.com
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| 23. 1. 2021 | Lurking bugs behind infrequently-executed code paths – rachelbythebay.com
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| 18. 1. 2021 | HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know – rachelbythebay.com
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| 17. 1. 2021 | Failing to make progress under excess request load – rachelbythebay.com
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| 15. 1. 2021 | Feedback: music, bash, BSD, cattle/pets, and "the cloud" – rachelbythebay.com
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| 5. 1. 2021 | Geometric effects of certain system design choices – rachelbythebay.com
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| 28. 12. 2020 | It turns out that Thunderbolt works now – rachelbythebay.com
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| 25. 12. 2020 | WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app – rachelbythebay.com
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| 22. 12. 2020 | Catalina: instead of fix, package contained chime – rachelbythebay.com
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| 13. 12. 2020 | Listening to phone calls with stock consumer devices – rachelbythebay.com
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| 12. 12. 2020 | Feedback: errors, filesystems, magic numbers, and more – rachelbythebay.com
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| 10. 12. 2020 | On the whole CentOS thing – rachelbythebay.com
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| 7. 12. 2020 | retvals, terrible teaching, and admitting we have a problem – rachelbythebay.com
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| 27. 11. 2020 | My list of magic numbers for your turkey day enjoyment – rachelbythebay.com
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| 19. 11. 2020 | This message cannot be pasted into the Signal app – rachelbythebay.com
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| 18. 11. 2020 | Feedback: UIs, Mac pains, hardware, teaching and octal – rachelbythebay.com
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| 5. 11. 2020 | Using all-Apple Thunderbolt hardware to kill my MacBook – rachelbythebay.com
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| 27. 10. 2020 | Sharp tools for emergencies and the --clowntown flag – rachelbythebay.com
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| 27. 10. 2020 | Type in the exact number of machines to proceed – rachelbythebay.com
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| 21. 10. 2020 | Violating monotonic time expectations on Mojave – rachelbythebay.com
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| 18. 10. 2020 | Feedback: TCP lag, Mac crashes, site code, and octal dates – rachelbythebay.com
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| 17. 10. 2020 | Apple really sucks at Thunderbolt 3, apparently – rachelbythebay.com
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| 15. 10. 2020 | 40 milliseconds of latency that just would not go away – rachelbythebay.com
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| 13. 10. 2020 | Binpacking little things onto big things with PAE – rachelbythebay.com
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| 8. 10. 2020 | Remembering a classic "time travel" bug – rachelbythebay.com
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| 3. 10. 2020 | Thunderbolt 3 dock plus 2020 MacBook equals crash – rachelbythebay.com
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| 25. 9. 2020 | Answers to a reader's questions about bits of tech – rachelbythebay.com
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| 21. 9. 2020 | Just how many people do we need doing that job, anyway? – rachelbythebay.com
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| 20. 9. 2020 | How a hypothetical learning project might evolve – rachelbythebay.com
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| 13. 9. 2020 | Discovering the hypocrisy gap in reliability the hard way – rachelbythebay.com
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| 5. 9. 2020 | Just because it's there doesn't mean you should use it – rachelbythebay.com
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| 2. 9. 2020 | What is your take on checking return values? – rachelbythebay.com
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| 23. 8. 2020 | Libraries and dependencies I'm willing to take – rachelbythebay.com
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| 18. 8. 2020 | Baking those potatoes with microservices and vendors – rachelbythebay.com
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| 16. 8. 2020 | Reader feedback: leetcode, HSTS, and more on Unix files – rachelbythebay.com
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| 15. 8. 2020 | We are a spectrum of jobs, not just one – rachelbythebay.com
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| 13. 8. 2020 | File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness – rachelbythebay.com
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| 10. 8. 2020 | Tripping over the potholes in too many libraries – rachelbythebay.com
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| 10. 8. 2020 | Thoughts on recent world events and writing about tech – rachelbythebay.com
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| 5. 6. 2020 | No more pink mustache – rachelbythebay.com
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| 30. 5. 2020 | Not After : May 30 10:48:38 2020 GMT – rachelbythebay.com
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| 24. 5. 2020 | Setting the story straight on quite a few issues – rachelbythebay.com
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| 23. 5. 2020 | Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them. – rachelbythebay.com
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| 20. 5. 2020 | Infra teams: good, bad, or none at all – rachelbythebay.com
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| 11. 5. 2020 | Whacker News updated for 2020 – rachelbythebay.com
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| 10. 5. 2020 | Responses to reader feedback – rachelbythebay.com
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| 7. 5. 2020 | Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal – rachelbythebay.com
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| 7. 5. 2020 | A bunch of rants about cloud-induced damage – rachelbythebay.com
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| 1. 5. 2020 | Bad times in corporate wireless networks – rachelbythebay.com
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| 1. 5. 2020 | If you're hiring, be forthcoming about the dev experience – rachelbythebay.com
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| 30. 4. 2020 | Rolling out the "push train" – rachelbythebay.com
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| 29. 4. 2020 | Moving fleet software releases to a massively sharded scheme – rachelbythebay.com
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| 28. 4. 2020 | Boiling the machines when they really needed to just chill – rachelbythebay.com
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| 25. 4. 2020 | Releasing software to the fleet far too quickly broke stuff – rachelbythebay.com
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| 12. 4. 2020 | Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run? – rachelbythebay.com
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| 26. 3. 2020 | Wireless audio sync on Apple TV kills Mac AirPlay audio – rachelbythebay.com
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| 11. 3. 2020 | Silly benchmarks on completely untuned server code – rachelbythebay.com
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| 10. 3. 2020 | What is the unique value proposition of selling honey? – rachelbythebay.com
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| 7. 3. 2020 | We have to talk about this Python, Gunicorn, Gevent thing – rachelbythebay.com
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| 6. 3. 2020 | Popular posts from leaky bug-tracking systems – rachelbythebay.com
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| 4. 3. 2020 | Mind those emoji if you're working at this place – rachelbythebay.com
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| 2. 3. 2020 | Pondering the reasons why you should work somewhere – rachelbythebay.com
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| 18. 2. 2020 | Pushing files around with silly and unusual methods – rachelbythebay.com
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| 10. 2. 2020 | Oh, don't worry, I've screwed up plenty of things too – rachelbythebay.com
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| 9. 2. 2020 | Trying to sneak in a sketchy .so over the weekend – rachelbythebay.com
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| 8. 2. 2020 | The tools you'd miss if you left a company – rachelbythebay.com
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| 7. 2. 2020 | Trying to be too (io)nice created a "killer" directory – rachelbythebay.com
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| 4. 2. 2020 | Hacking the 'scope from a distant land – rachelbythebay.com
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| 23. 1. 2020 | Troubleshooting shell scripts that grew slower with age – rachelbythebay.com
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| 25. 12. 2019 | Taking too much slack out of the rubber band – rachelbythebay.com
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| 30. 11. 2019 | That packet looks familiar, and that one, and that one... – rachelbythebay.com
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| 29. 11. 2019 | Resolving a minor turkey day networking mystery – rachelbythebay.com
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| 16. 11. 2019 | Utter frustration with the eval board's tech support – rachelbythebay.com
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| 15. 11. 2019 | Creating the notion of preview and runout modes for a service – rachelbythebay.com
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| 14. 11. 2019 | The day when starting a receiver fixed the transmitter – rachelbythebay.com
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| 13. 11. 2019 | Just how fast is too fast when it comes to web requests? – rachelbythebay.com
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| 12. 11. 2019 | Control systems, yes, but we have to learn to crawl first – rachelbythebay.com
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| 9. 11. 2019 | Microphones with tattle lights and passive wearables – rachelbythebay.com
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| 1. 11. 2019 | Sorcerer's apprentice mode and busting ghosts – rachelbythebay.com
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| 25. 10. 2019 | A push gone very wrong in the name of what, exactly? – rachelbythebay.com
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| 21. 10. 2019 | Fresh pcaps, free for the asking – rachelbythebay.com
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| 14. 10. 2019 | Engineers without borders, silos, and vendor walls – rachelbythebay.com
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| 6. 10. 2019 | Break before make, abstractions, and sleazy ISPs – rachelbythebay.com |