Occasional posts about software, hardware and related matters.
Process matters
To quote Fun Boy Three and Bananarama, ‘It Ain’t What You Do (It’s the Way That You Do It)’
Corporate Linux
The kernel boldly goes all-in on AI.
The unknown unknowns
A fundamental problem with LLM chatbots that I think deserves greater attention.
The problem factory
The tech industry has been failing to deal with a fundamental issue for decades.
The vi family
The last text editor you’ll ever need to learn.
IPv6 address assignment
IPv6, SLAAC, and how obtaining an address is different on an IPv6 network.
IPv4 history
How we came to run out of IP addresses.
AWS S3: An error occurred (ExpiredToken)… The provided token has expired
A mysterious error from AWS when you’re not even using tokens, and how to fix it.
Language wish list
Or: why I’m not going to use your favorite programming language.
Reading instance tags in Amazon EC2
A useful but underdocumented procedure.