From 133d542813304ed4d84db96cbe977f56f1b05777 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan-Erik Rediger Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:13:48 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] new post: Things I read, Week 5 --- _drafts/2018-01-29-things-i-read-week-5.md | 10 -------- _posts/2018-01-29-things-i-read-week-5.md | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 _drafts/2018-01-29-things-i-read-week-5.md create mode 100644 _posts/2018-01-29-things-i-read-week-5.md diff --git a/_drafts/2018-01-29-things-i-read-week-5.md b/_drafts/2018-01-29-things-i-read-week-5.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5c4131a..0000000 --- a/_drafts/2018-01-29-things-i-read-week-5.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -permalink: "/{{ year }}/{{ month }}/{{ day }}/things-i-read-week-5" -title: "Things I read, Week 5" -published_date: "2018-01-29 12:00:00 +0100" -layout: post.liquid -data: - route: blog ---- - -This post is part of a [new experiment this year](/2018/01/08/things-i-read-week-2/index.html): -Trying to briefly collect articles/posts/code/documentation I read in the past week and add some comments for things I consider important. diff --git a/_posts/2018-01-29-things-i-read-week-5.md b/_posts/2018-01-29-things-i-read-week-5.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c1af8af --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2018-01-29-things-i-read-week-5.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +permalink: "/{{ year }}/{{ month }}/{{ day }}/things-i-read-week-5" +title: "Things I read, Week 5" +published_date: "2018-01-29 12:00:00 +0100" +layout: post.liquid +data: + route: blog +--- + +This post is part of a [new experiment this year](/2018/01/08/things-i-read-week-2/index.html): +Trying to briefly collect articles/posts/code/documentation I read in the past week and add some comments for things I consider important. + +### Article: [The oral history of _Breaking Bad_](http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a15063971/breaking-bad-cast-interview/) + +A longer interview with the actors and creators of [_Breaking Bad_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/), the famous TV show about a chemistry teacher turned drug lord. +Interesting to know that Breaking Bad wasn't a hit from the start off, was still not canceled and grew a large fanbase overtime. +I really liked the show back then, maybe it's time to occasionally rewatch it. + +### Article: [How a Dorm Room Minecraft Scam Brought Down the Internet](https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet/) + +This article details how three college-age friends initially wrote the largest botnet since ever, just to take down competing Minecraft servers. +Of course they got greedy and targetted bigger and bigger networks and later turned to click-fraud advertisers using the hijacked IoT devices. + +### Blog post: [In defence of swap: common misconceptions](https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html) + +Chris Down thoroughly explains how memory reclamation and swap usage works on Linux and why it might be benefitial to have some swap space. +Turns out swap is not just *emergency memory*. +Additional settings introduced in the new cgroup v2 API allow for more fine-grained control of swap behaviour. +Until then tune your `vm.swappiness`.