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Debian 11 and the OpenSSL that stopped trusting old things

NoteAugust 3, 20212 min read

Debian 11 in August raised the default OpenSSL security level, and connections that had worked for years started failing with an unhelpful handshake error. The default moved from…

Block-based widgets broke every widget we had written

Deep diveJuly 29, 202110 min read

5.8 replaced the widget screen with a block editor. Six custom widgets became six HTML blocks full of rendered markup.

MariaDB 10.6 and the InnoDB that is no longer XtraDB

NoteJuly 15, 20211 min read

MariaDB replaced XtraDB with its own InnoDB fork some versions ago, and 10.6 is where the accumulated differences from MySQL stop being cosmetic. The two are no longer…

Block widgets, and the filter that opts out

NoteJuly 9, 20212 min read

5.8 replaced the widget screen with a block editor, and six custom widgets became one HTML block each with the rendered markup pasted in. The opt-out is legitimate…

Terraform 1.0 is a promise about the next five years

Deep diveJune 2, 202110 min read

A version number that is a compatibility statement rather than a feature list. Three environments described by hand, and the import that is most of the work.

Compose v2 is a plugin, and the hyphen finally goes

Deep diveMay 19, 20219 min read

The same command, spelled two ways, on eight machines. A Python program became a Go plugin, and the container names changed underneath every script.

Bootstrap 5 data attributes are data-bs-, all of them

NoteMay 11, 20212 min read

Every JavaScript data attribute gained a bs namespace, which is a find-and-replace across every template and a silent failure if one is missed. The namespace exists so Bootstrap…

Bootstrap 5 removed jQuery and found what depended on it

Deep diveMay 5, 202110 min read

A CSS framework upgrade that turned out to be a JavaScript audit. The modals work and four things around them do not.

The dotnet service that finally moved behind the same gateway

Deep diveApril 27, 202110 min read

One service in a different language, with its own auth, its own log format and its own deploy. The language was the least interesting difference.

An index that made writes slower than the reads it saved

Deep diveApril 23, 202110 min read

Eleven indexes on a table with a heavy write path. Every index is a write amplification that nobody measured, and three of them were never used.