DNS is for people, not for IT infrastructure(louwrentius.com)

35 points by louwrentius 4 months ago | 65 comments

In POSIX, you can theoretically use inode zero(utcc.utoronto.ca)

58 points by mfrw 1 year ago | 26 comments

Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4(jepsen.io)

581 points by aphyr 1 year ago | 138 comments

Jepsen analysis by Kyle Kingsbury showing Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL multi-AZ clusters violate Snapshot Isolation, exhibiting Long Fork anomalies across versions 13.15 to 17.4.

Lunar Terminator Paradox(notes.secretsauce.net)

97 points by dima55 29 days ago | 64 comments

Blog post by Dima Kogan explaining the lunar terminator paradox optical illusion, using a program he wrote to work out why the moon's lit side seems misaligned with the sun.

LinkedIn Fanfiction(marginalia.nu)

33 points by marginalia_nu 5 months ago | 4 comments

Notes on Tunisia(mattlakeman.org)

76 points by returningfory2 1 year ago | 34 comments