Tag Archives: work

A big PostgreSQL upgrade

Posted on 2022-01-11 by Garrett Wollman

I don’t write here very often about stuff I do at work, but I just finished a project that was a hassle all out of scale with the actual utility, and I wanted to document it for posterity, in the … Continue reading →

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The most awesome person in the world disappeared from my life this week, in all probability for good. It may be claiming a bit much to say that she was ever really in my life; while she was certainly in … Continue reading →

Posted on 2016-08-12 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on With a sigh and a tear…

Some notes on our new generation of ZFS-based file servers

Posted on 2016-07-09 by Garrett Wollman

Consistently among the most popular posts on this blog are a series I wrote very early on about our architecture (at work) for big file servers based on commodity hardware, FreeBSD, and ZFS (part 1, part 2). We are in … Continue reading →

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Attention conservation notice: If you’re here for the food, you can skip this post — maybe another recipe post coming towards the end of the month. I wrote a while back about moves in the browser world to deprecate client … Continue reading →

Posted on 2016-05-02 by Garrett Wollman | Comments Off on An update on the HTTPS client certificate issue

In search of a usable on-call notification service

Posted on 2015-12-14 by Garrett Wollman

One advantage of taking a break, however short, from my weekly baking project is that it allows me to put some time into writing other things. Lately, I’ve been looking for better ways to do on-call notification at my workplace, … Continue reading →

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Coming Attractions

Posted on 2015-07-18 by Garrett Wollman

If you’ve been following my blog at all, you’ve probably read about how I made a list of recipes to bake this summer, and asked my coworkers to pick their top three (based only on the recipe name and source). … Continue reading →

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Browniefest part 13: Other bakers’ brownies and a summary of the results

Posted on 2015-06-23 by Garrett Wollman

Finally, we come to the end of the road for Browniefest 2015. As I write this it was still less than a week ago, although you won’t see it for another few days yet. I’ve already written about all the … Continue reading →

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Browniefest

Posted on 2015-06-17 by Garrett Wollman

After a week of baking (on my part, not so much the other bakers’), we finally held Browniefest on Monday, June 15. I brought 14 batches of brownies to the office on Sunday: …but the final batch, Emily Luchetti’s “Black … Continue reading →

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A not-quite-response to Jean Yang’s response to “Comment 171”

Posted on 2015-01-14 by Garrett Wollman

Last month, MIT Computer Science professor Scott Aaronson (disclaimer: a colleague, although as he’s a theoretician, not one I interact with very much) wrote a thoughtful blog post about MIT’s response to the allegations of misconduct against former Physics professor … Continue reading →

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CSAIL Holiday Baking Fest

Posted on 2014-12-12 by Garrett Wollman
My items on a cart in the parking garate

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Last Monday, we held the first ever (so far as I can tell) CSAIL Holiday Baking Fest. It was not quite as well attended as I would have liked, but all the food did get eaten. (I ate rather too … Continue reading →

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