Stories by zdw

Lessons from Space: Debugging Plants

Practicing the Coding Challenges

The Value of Encryption (2016)

Mac Migration Pain

Ebpf_exporter: Prometheus exporter for custom eBPF metrics

Looking back at DTrace from a Linux eBPF world (some thoughts)

New Features in Python 3.9 You Should Know About

Which is better on Android: divide by 2 or shift by 1?

Is Cloudflare Safe Yet?

A Gooey and Delicious History of Mac and Cheese, a Meal Once Fit for a King

Dangerzone: Working with Suspicious Documents Without Getting Hacked

Things I wished more developers knew about databases

Rules of Thumb for a 1x Developer

Linux kernel lockdown, integrity, and confidentiality

Con Artists: Why They Tend to Take Us In

Ask iFixit: Everything You Wanted to Know About Isopropyl Alcohol

An important safety note about chown and symlinks (also chmod and chgrp)

File Integrity 6: Which image format is most resilient?

Sun Microsystems PizzaTool (2018)

A note about SSL/TLS trusted certificate stores, and platforms (2015)