Links

(Also check out the projects I’ve starred on github)

Encryption

• Plausible Deniability With LUKS 
• Nuke the data on wrong LUKS key
• Myths about /dev/urandom

Funny

• Best code comments 
• OOM killer analogy 

HA

• Distributed systems for fun and profit 
• Haproxy 
• Sometimes, kill -9 is not enough 
• Virtual IP Addresses 
• Zero downtime HAProxy trick 

Kernel

• Linux responsiveness, memory, and paging. 
• A nice article about executables in Linux
• Linux performance tools presentation

Mail

• OpenDKIM multiple domains 

Misc

• Morality of ad blockers 
• Best MarkDown editor 
• I hate almost all software. 
• Keeping etc files in git 
• List millions of files in single directory, fast. 
• Memcached Bash Interface 
• Nice NTP rant 
• Regular Expressions 
• Stow - dotfile manager 

MySQL

• Live query logging 
• Query log performance 
• Split –all-databases .sql dump per-database 
• XtraBackup 

Network

• IPSET 
• Open port tester 
• Routing Multiple Uplinks 
• Run any program through proxy server 
• TCP notes - special cases

Security

• Fail2Ban w/ multi-server 
• Security 101 
• Shamir’s Secret 
• Securely keep passwords 

Shell

• Bash glob trick 
• Bash shortcuts 
• Better bash scripting 
• Unix/Linux Shells 
• Wildcard Tricks 

Storage

• A great FS layout for btrfs users 
• bcache 
• BTRFS Fun 
• Git server 
• RAID performance
• Software RAID & GRUB 
• VGRename 

UX

• Stop doing this crap

Non-tech stuff

Work-related

• Salary negotiation

Stories

• No matter how long it takes, save us. (Great sci-fi story) 
• Responsibility (Sci-Fi read)
• Take your time

Brain-teasers

• Proving that we are living in a simulation
• The Fermi Paradox 
• Understanding Evolution