autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon
Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires
Sometimes the dam breaks even after plenty of warnings
Today's only half of the leap year fun
1 << n vs. 1U << n and a cell phone autofocus problem
A vintage network attack called smurf
LDAP differ feedback and the "666" I missed
Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat
Feedback: lots more WPA3, and then some
Stamping production binaries with build info
Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours
WPA3 on Raspberry Pi 3B+, 4B and 5B with iwd (or not...)
C++ time_point wackiness across platforms
A year-end wrapup of responses to reader feedback
Smashing the stack for pain and misery
Patching around a C++ crash with a little bit of Lua
clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run
That time Verisign typo-squatted all of .com and .net
My rants about TP-Link Omada networking products
Asahi Linux folks are doing us a solid with WPA3 fixes
Still no love for WPA3 on the Raspberry Pi 5
getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy
Administrivia: new page/feed generator is now live
ASCII protocol buffers as config files
I screwed something up in that last post about Hue
The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity
Expressing my laziness in concrete ways
The customer stuck due to a hurricane who needed ssh
Memories of a really goofy phone from the late 80s
Add extra stuff to a "standard" encoding? Sure, why not.
Feedback: the feed seems just fine...
Feedback: I try to answer "how to become a systems engineer"
Administrivia: new web hosting arrangements
Fulfilling a reader's request for my "dot files"
Escalating via post-it note just to get some health checks
Administrivia: HTML generation and my general clowniness
Load 'em up and throw 'em under the bus
More than five whys and "layer eight" problems
Determine durations with monotonic clocks if available
Tonight's rabbit hole: time math and 32 bit longs
Reader feedback: "bad" names, !main(), and Mastodon
Who needs main() anyway?
Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks
Feeds, updates, 200s, 304s, and now 429s
S p a m m y s y s c a l l s in strace dumps
Another look at the steps for issuing a cert
Why I still have an old-school cert on my https site
Not quite a successful prediction about tracking Apple stuff
Unintentionally BREAKing a serial console
WPA3: no go on Raspberry Pi (plus some Mac gotchas)
Systems design and being bitten by edge-triggering
Run it XOR use it, part two
A reader asks how to avoid working for evil
Short stories from outage reports
Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money
The night of 1000 alerts (but only on the Linux boxes)
Reliability stuff worth reading
Missing the point completely
