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Crossing ancient streams

Restaurants try too hard, and don't succeed

Sometimes some things just don't add up...

Extension to a Serverfault Answer

A bit long-winded and wordy, but interesting.

Event notes: an Astound Wireless job

War stories from dealing with massive companies

In praise of a simple tool

Don't make legit things that look like malware.

Life on the bleeding edge Part 2

Life on the bleeding edge

Adventures in naughty Bash

They're flocking this way!

Don't store files *in* databases.

The bare basics of making .deb files

If the service isn't OK, why return 200?

Improving stability of a deployment system

postgresql magic runes

Does scrum really fit for DevOps?

OpenSSL magic runes

Why are all cash register systems awful?

Tell your operations staff when you're running a promo.

How I came out

Be ethical, and you'll do well.

TL;DR: Maven.

Right.

The devil makes work for idle thumbs

Backups are hard.

Hardware is cheap, downtime is expensive.

A rant about image hotlinking not being all that bad

Scary infrastructure decisions

This is real life social engineering.

A long post about not relying on one provider.

A mechanism for updating DNS with DHCP leases

2 factor authentication is good

Further evidence that name game memes are harmful

How to build a project in 5 days.

In praise of simple graphing.

In praise of server tin.

Details on some drivers I wrote once.

The legacy of a nobody I work hard, and try not to let the future bother me.

Another personal coming out story (from a friend)

Personal story of how Tom came out.

Pretty tiles I found.

Say for example you want to build a new Virtualization cluster.

How unexpected TV publicity can be damaging for unprepared websites.

Early criticism of facebook posts gathering osint.

The problems of wikis, and vandalism

A story in 100 words.

A brief discussion on the fallacy of an uncrackable password