Thinking about designing a home to live in, one idea I'm drawn to is having a front vestibule: A gorgeous home vestibule depicted in New England Home Magazine; photo by Laura MossAn obvious perk is as a buffer from the bitter winter cold. Both sets of doors can be kept…
I've got a thing for starry skies, and for Unsplash in general. Their license doesn't require attribution, but it's much deserved. Here's the photo that now graces the front page of my site: Photo by Benjamin Voros on Unsplashsnow mountain under starsBenjamin VorosUnsplash…
Some friends and I have kicked around the idea of buying a big plot of land and custom-building houses on it for a while now. This post is an attempt to jot down some of my thoughts on what a good house is like. This post, Designing a New Old…
I'll admit that maybe this isn't too enthralling to the average reader, but for people familiar with SPF records for mailserver, I just learned about something super-powerful I had never heard of before: Using SPF Macros to Solve the Operational Challenges of SPFImproving the maintainability, auditability and effectiveness of your…
I've again ended up with a bunch of "stuff to read later" tabs open and need to tidy up. Here are some interesting Linux-related and Linux-adjacent ones: Why should you keep /var/tmp as a separate partition? SecScan explains why. I'm interested in reading a lot of the other recommendations…
For some years, I've liked StrikeStarUS, a real-time lightning map. Here's what the Northeast map looks like right now: StrikeStar lightning map (July 13th, 2020, not live)If you click Stats on that site, you'll see that it's made up of a bunch of people with Boltek lightning detectors running…
This came up at work: http://danluu.com/wat/ – The idea being that, over time, we come to accept that "WTFs" of a job as being normal, and we accept deviance, both from what is reasonable and what is policy, as being routine and acceptable. That article is in the…
This is documented in plenty of other places, but for my own sake, here's the meaning of the delay= and delays= lines in Postfix's maillog. Note that this example is from debugging badly-delayed mail (almost 2 hours!), so do not take these values as good or typical values. But, here…