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Stories by peter

Why did the IETF specifically choose 192.168/16 to be a private IP address class? (superuser.com)
L 60 pts 7 comments by peter Apr 19, 2021 historicalnetworking Data / Databases / InfrastructureCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way (iliana.fyi)
L 57 pts 18 comments by peter Aug 7, 2023 ios Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
What ad blocker do you use and why?
L 37 pts 83 comments by peter Jun 28, 2023 askbrowsersweb Web Development thread
I find myself once again setting up a new computer, and once again bummed that uBlock Origin doesn't work for Safari. I remember ye olde controversy about uBlock, and the creation of uBlock Origin, but I haven't kept up with any news about ad blockers at all. I remember the original value propositio...
Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit (blog.thelifeofkenneth.com)
L 35 pts 0 comments by peter Nov 17, 2017 networking Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Anyone with ARM laptop experience?
L 31 pts 25 comments by peter Nov 19, 2017 asklinuxopenbsd Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
The [cloudflare qualcomm vs intel comparison](https://blog.cloudflare.com/arm-takes-wing/) caught my eye and renewed my interest in ARM outside of mobile. I’m thinking of getting an ARM laptop, but I’d love to hear any experiences and insights y’all have, especially with running Linux or BSD on ARM.
Riven (filfre.net)
L 29 pts 2 comments by peter May 20, 2024 gameshistorical Gaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Have you ever needed to generate a random number in code? (threadreaderapp.com)
L 23 pts 8 comments by peter Jul 1, 2018 compscimath Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryScience / Math / Physics thread
[original twitter thread](https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1012719876706840578)
Who uses OpenStack?
L 19 pts 18 comments by peter Jan 26, 2018 askdevopspracticesscalingvirtualization Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / InfrastructureProductivity / Career / Business thread
Whenever I read Red Hat material they seem obsessed with OpenStack, but I don't actually know of anyone using it. Most of my professional contacts are either SF hipsters using hipster tech (e.g. Heroku, Kubernetes), or work at large companies that run their own infrastructure (e.g. Google, Amazon). ...
It's Time To Get Over That Stored Procedure Aversion You Have (rob.conery.io)
L 19 pts 17 comments by peter Mar 4, 2015 databasespractices Data / Databases / InfrastructureProductivity / Career / Business thread
devd: a web daemon for developers (corte.si)
L 16 pts 0 comments by peter Oct 23, 2015 goreleaseweb Web DevelopmentProgramming (General) thread
Apple against Luxury (medium.com)
L 15 pts 15 comments by peter Mar 2, 2015 culture Apple / macOS / iOSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Databases at 14.4Mhz (blog.foundationdb.com)
L 13 pts 11 comments by peter Dec 10, 2014 databasesdistributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
PostgreSQL Vacuuming: An Introduction for Busy Devs (okigiveup.net)
L 11 pts 1 comments by peter May 4, 2016 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Checking Firewall Equivalence with Z3 (2018) (ahelwer.ca)
L 9 pts 1 comments by peter Feb 24, 2023 compscinetworking Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / InfrastructureSecurity / Privacy thread
Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale (medium.com)
L 8 pts 0 comments by peter Oct 27, 2015 hardwareiosmobile Apple / macOS / iOSMaker / DIY / HardwareInternet / Digital Culture thread
What people said about an OpenZFS bug (despairlabs.com)
L 7 pts 1 comments by peter Jul 16, 2025 cpractices Systems / Low-Level / OSProductivity / Career / Business thread
Async/Await - The challenges besides syntax - Cancellation (2019) (gist.github.com)
L 7 pts 4 comments by peter Jul 29, 2021 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Common Pitfalls in Writing Lock-Free Algorithms (2013) (blog.memsql.com)
L 6 pts 0 comments by peter Jan 9, 2016 c Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
How I got 10,000 five-star reviews in 4 weeks (medium.com)
L 5 pts 0 comments by peter Apr 11, 2016 designiospractices Design / UX / VisualizationApple / macOS / iOSProductivity / Career / Business thread
Database Soup: What's this pg_shard thing? (databasesoup.com)
L 5 pts 2 comments by peter Dec 10, 2014 databasesdistributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Taking Advantage of Auto-Vectorization in Rust (2020) (nickwilcox.com)
L 4 pts 0 comments by peter Jul 7, 2023 assemblyperformancerust Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Automatically Reversing Account Takeovers (brightball.com)
L 4 pts 1 comments by peter Feb 14, 2023 emailsecurityweb Web DevelopmentSecurity / PrivacyInternet / Digital Culture thread
Node.js -- I'd just like to interject for a moment (youtube.com)
L 4 pts 2 comments by peter Jan 17, 2015 javascriptsatirevideo Web Development thread
Tricks In Arc Swap (2019) (vorner.github.io)
L 3 pts 0 comments by peter Jul 21, 2024 performancerust Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Fail at Scale & Controlling Queue Delay (2015) (blog.acolyer.org)
L 3 pts 2 comments by peter Apr 23, 2021 distributednetworkingscaling Data / Databases / InfrastructureProductivity / Career / Business thread
Nginx Optimization: understanding sendfile, tcp_nodelay, and tcp_nopush (t37.net)
L 3 pts 0 comments by peter Dec 8, 2014 networkingunixweb Web DevelopmentSystems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Live [Virtual Machine] Migration | [Google] Compute Engine Documentation (cloud.google.com)
L 2 pts 0 comments by peter Jul 12, 2018 virtualization Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Migrating live VMs to different machines isn’t new technology, but these docs explaining how Google does it go into solid detail while still remaining a nice quick read. Added specificity to the title.
The true cost of zero cost exceptions (2013) (mortoray.com)
L 2 pts 0 comments by peter Oct 5, 2017 performance Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
10x Engineers (twitter.com)
L -3 pts 12 comments by peter Jul 13, 2019 culture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread