There’s a comic about simplicity : how an Apple product has one place to touch, a Google product has one search field, and “your company’s a...

When I was a n00b on the internets, I heard whisperings about awful, over-complex “rule based systems” out there, somewhere.  Programmers sc...

We originally had the “automatic minor version upgrade” option active at Amazon RDS.  This option simply does not work very well.  Sometimes...

I had a hard time getting IPv6 to work properly on my VPS. It has a static address, which I published to DNS (ages ago), but it wasn’t fully...

When I wrote Everything Needs Rate Limits , I mentioned in passing that the disk-full state prevented receiving email.  The MTA was returnin...

I found myself needing to know if I had pushed something before or after some operational event. The commit itself was dated late on Friday ...

For reasons of “anything else would cost more,” my web server and email MTA are running on the same VPS. Which apparently means, if a known ...