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One thing I did not get is: why both Caddy and Traefik changed the syntax of their configurations.

Not directly related to the question. A few years ago, I read about that B-tree is also recommended for in-memory operations because the latency between CPU/memory is high now.

Agree, /var/log/messages is there for a long time, writing to log is never a problem. Digesting the log is the niche market and it is profitable enough that we have a lot of tools …

Yes, Alpine is a good choice for small servers. I run both FreeBSD and Alpine for my homelab. Alpine feels very close to FreeBSD style. I still prefer pf over ufw/awall.

I tried to install OpenBSD on three VM hosts, one Macbook Intel, one FreeBSD and one KVM. OpenBSD failed to install in all three environments. The latter two crashed just during th…

https://github.com/compose-spec/compose-spec/blob/master/spe...

This book and mathematical analysis from Zorich are my favorite two math books.

I picked up Emacs this summer (together with neovim). The motivation was simple, I was an early adopter of VSCode and SSH remote, but I noticed that sometimes, the session history …

> Let's document the Emacs Lisp Bytecode or LAP (Lisp Assembly Program) instructions.

When I first read about RWKV on zhihu and the author said Bellard was working with him on RWKV. I am so glad ts_zip is out and bring a new application to RWKV.

Professor Bao of the OpenXiangShan team is known for his outspokenness, particularly in advocating for the academic model of the RISELab at UC Berkeley, which he often refers to as…

ByteDance replaces etcd with kubebrain [1], which is backed by their own KV store (TiKV seems also supported). The single-group raft is the hard limit. [1]: https://github.com/kube…

Providing legal protection for lawsuits can be a lucrative business. However, I'm not aware of any BSD-based companies that have capitalized on this opportunity. Are there any unto…

IMHO, SO is tech-stack centric, which worked perfectly in old days. Questions are grouped by Java, Web, .NET, shell/system admin, etc. We got most of answers to general questions f…

In early attempts of removing GIL, atomic reference counting slows down performance by 60%. In comparison, tracing garbage collector can defer/coalesce reference counting. You can …

Also, firecracker did not merge virtio-fs [1]. So I guess it is a scope and priority decision: > To not trade off our core use case simplifying assumptions, we'll need something li…

My guess is DDIA + USENIX/OSDI/... papers.

Leadership or steering committee is a key factor for open source projects operated by companies. A closed pull request with comment "We won't accept the pull request because ..." s…

ZFS compiles a modified version Lua 5.2 into zfs.ko and loaded into Linux kernel.

Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/igmjfh/openzfs20_rc1_r...

It seems [Edie Freedman]( https://www.itworld.com/article/2708642/history-of-the-o-rei... ) chooses the animal based on the description from the authors: > I ask the authors to sup…