Done well ahead of time, knowing I’d be on the road this past week.

• A little bump in the wire that makes your Internet faster.
• A timesyncd total failure and systemd’s complete lack of debugability and Systemd’s DynamicUser feature is (currently) dangerous.  Yeesh.
• Pure Bash Bible: A collection of pure bash alternatives to external binaries.  (via)
• unabridged history of unix / linux?  Lots of reading suggestions.
• One simple general pattern for making sure things are alive.
• As Michael W. Lucas points out in his site redesign, Let’s Encrypt is great.
• Dislikes the Sea, but Will Venture Upon It If Necessary.  An adult looking back on his D&D papers from childhood.  (via)
• Polyhedra Viewer.  Sorta related, in a dice sort of way.  (also via)
• 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email (part one).  (via)
• Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?  New James Mickens!  (via many places)