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Braindumps & musings
41 posts from 2011 to 2020, from two old blogs now under one roof: digital sweat on WordPress and heXoughts on Octopress. Each tile is a post, placed by the question it was trying to answer.
How do systems behave at scale?
Benchmarks, monitoring and visualising what machines are doing. 5
How do I fix this box?
Linux, file systems and notes to self from the ops trenches. 4
What is open source like from the inside?
Mozilla, hack days, workshops and sending patches upstream. 7
What is the point of it all?
Essays on work, creativity, writing and getting through it. 13
What caught my eye?
Spam probes, politics, physics, football and other obsessions. 12
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2017
- Recovering encrypted LVM based partitions, after accidentally overwriting 'em with 'fio'! heXoughts
- performance engineering TILs - part 1 heXoughts
- resizing an xfs partition on a thin provisoned disk in a RHVM env heXoughts
- never go back, but never forget digital sweat
- #noteToSelf - fix MariaDB-selinux related errors (fails to restart after update) heXoughts
2016
- Creativity: 0 to 1 afterthoughts digital sweat
- Monitoring in Satperf: metrics collection heXoughts
- satperf: A Satellite Performance benchmarking and automation tool heXoughts
- Setting up collectd plugins with Graphite and Grafana heXoughts
- Imbecile Intellects. Or are they? digital sweat
- Setting up your own blog hosted on Github heXoughts
- Sarjitsu: A project on visualizing system's activity heXoughts
- New work blog! digital sweat
- First Post heXoughts
- On the bulk of digital reactions: the Like buttons! digital sweat
- ..and write, I will. digital sweat
2015
2014
- In the name of the father digital sweat
- On Keith Devlin’s talk and the occurrence of Fibonacci numbers in nature and historical artifacts digital sweat
- Se7en sins Plog digital sweat
- “I have never b… digital sweat
- Watch that video. Enough said. digital sweat
- Confessions of a code-a-holic digital sweat
2013
- ☢ Fukushima: Beyond Urgent ☢ digital sweat
- Ways to start-over with our Political Regimes? digital sweat
- A little probe into the Facebook spam “Add plugin to update your browser” digital sweat
- The System of entitlement to credit for a breakthrough digital sweat
- The World – is your oyster? digital sweat
- MozCamp experiences Delhi’2013 digital sweat
- Untitled note, 2013-01-13 digital sweat
- The Wishlist digital sweat
- 2012: What an year for Linux digital sweat