This post is about my experience running a Linux desktop virtual machine on a Linux host. I used the VM interactively, often in fullscreen mode, to develop software and run web apps (mostly Slack and Google Docs). My experience wasn't great…
I've been trying out Nushell again lately. I blogged in 2021 about how command-not-found is slow to build an index of which commands are provided by which Debian packages. I created an alternative Posix shell script that performs well witho…
I did a bunch of more updates to this website, including adding a dark mode. Most of the other changes are either invisible or barely noticeable. That's OK. My several visitors will appreciate them. Or at least I'll appreciate them. I added…
On Debian/Ubuntu, command-not-found tells you what package to install when you try to run a program you don't have. I find this helpful, but it takes a long time to maintain its index for lookups. This post tells the meandering story of how…
The code for this website has been running without any major updates since 2009. Back then, I wrote it as a Python 2 program using FastCGI, served originally by lighttpd and more recently by Caddy. I recently overhauled the code to run as a…
2015-07-26 raft logcabin Announcing the release of LogCabin 1.1! This is the second stable release of the LogCabin coordination service, which includes a C++ implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm. LogCabin has gotten a bunch of imp…
2015-05-01 raft logcabin LogCabin 1.0 is out! This is the first stable release of the LogCabin coordination service, which includes a C++ implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm. If you're new to these, I recently spoke about Raft an…
2015-04-03 raft logcabin This is the sixth in a series of blog posts detailing the ongoing development of LogCabin. This entry describes progress towards the upcoming 1.0.0 release of LogCabin, a useful new command-line client to access Log…
This post surveys the libraries available in Node.js for LevelDB, shows that support for transactions is missing, and lays out a path to get there. In short, we need the Node bindings for LevelDB to expose snapshots, then we can build trans…
2015-02-27 raft logcabin This is the fifth in a series of blog posts detailing the ongoing development of LogCabin. This entry describes a new cluster-wide monotonic clock used for client session expiry, a new tool to dump out the contents
2015-02-11 raft logcabin This is the fourth in a series of blog posts detailing the ongoing development of LogCabin. This entry describes LogCabin's new storage module and several other recent improvements. Storage modules are how LogCabin
2015-01-27 low-tech Now that I've graduated, Stanford has deleted my university email account, ongaro@stanford.edu. If you tried to send to that address and received an autoreply, please resend your email to the same username at cs.stanford…