Mailing List Cleanup - DevOps'ish (Part 2)

(This is part of an open ended series of posts where I write down random things I feel are sharable from the years of mailing lists I’ve not caught up on…)

Again, it is so weird to read through mailing lists from 2020/2021 as people are reacting to the utter disaster that COVID was. (Still is?) From fear, to anger to hope. This is part 2 of DevOps’ish which ~ August 2020 through October 2021 (though there was a gap in there of a couple months. Unfortunately most of these were marked as read already so don’t decrease the unread count.

This feels like a 4 or 5 part one. But here is Part 1

• The Official, Authorized List Of Legitimate Reasons For Deciding To Become A Manager – is it a list from me without a link from Charity?
• /dev/random – nerdy details about /dev/random and links to even more nerdy details
• details of the linux implementation of ^^
• Taming the tar command: Tips for managing backups in Linux – I am able to use precisely 2 tar commands without looking things up
• HOTorNOT shaped the social web as we know it – zomg. Remember this?
• Measuring the Memory Overhead of a Postgres Connection – I’ve been in MySQL land for the last decade, but I feel like this is useful to know how to do
• The state of the AWK – Also, LWN.net is still a thing? Who knew.
• FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Is Figma + AI the new FrontPage?
• How to Avoid the Most Dangerous Word in Software Development – A) This would call me out constantly, B) I know exactly what I’m doing when I use it.
• The DevRel Path To Success: Awareness, Enablement, Engagement – For ‘reasons’, this is topic
• I no longer answer customer support surveys – The kicker is “The person I talked to was great but they spent most of the call fighting shitty software that they can’t change. Please fire the executive management that doesn’t understand this.” Yup.
• The Speed of Time – <boggle>