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https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-03-06-debian-code-search-openapi/
Debian Code Search: OpenAPI now available (2021) - Michael Stapelberg
Debian Code Search now offers an OpenAPI-based API! Various developers have created ad-hoc client libraries based on how the web interface works. The goal of...
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https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2015-10-12-ratt/
ratt: Rebuild All The Things! (2015) - Michael Stapelberg
When uploading a new library package which changes its API/behavior in a subtle way, typically you will only hear about the downstream breakage after you’ve...
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https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2013-07-25-usb-wlan-dongle/
Looking for a USB WLAN stick (2013) - Michael Stapelberg
Posting this on behalf of a friend of mine in the hope that you can help: I’ve failed several times now to find a suitable WLAN USB dongle that works out of...
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https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2012-10-14-systemd-activity/
My recent systemd activity (2012) - Michael Stapelberg
I recently worked on the following systemd-related issues: #686115 - CanReload is set to yes unconditionally for legacy SysV services I wrote a patch which...
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TV Series recommendations - Michael Stapelberg
Whenever the subject of TV series comes up, I often blank, despite having seen a bunch of good and great TV series. This page serves as a reminder, to guide a...
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https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-02-05-turbopfor-analysis/
TurboPFor: an analysis (2019) - Michael Stapelberg
Motivation I have recently been looking into speeding up Debian Code Search. As a quick reminder, search engines answer queries by consulting an inverted...
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https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2017-10-08-raspberry-pi-3/
Debian stretch on the Raspberry Pi 3 (update) (2017) - Michael Stapelberg
I previously wrote about my Debian stretch preview image for the Raspberry Pi 3. Now, I’m publishing an updated version, containing the following changes: SSH...
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https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-03-19-intel-core-ultra-9-285k-on-asus-z890-not-stable/
Intel 9 285K on ASUS Z890: not stable! (2025) - Michael Stapelberg
Update (2025-05-15): Turns out the CPU was faulty! See My 2025 high-end Linux PC for a new article on this build, now with a working CPU. Update (2025-09-07):...
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https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2014-01-17-debmirror-rackspace/
debmirror 6x speed-up, or how to fill a 1 GBps Rackspace link (2014) - Michael Stapelberg
As explained in more detail in my my last blog post, Rackspace is providing hosting for Debian Code Search. For those of you who don’t know, Rackspace is a...
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https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2013-07-31-dh-golang/
dh-golang in unstable (2013) - Michael Stapelberg
Good news, everyone! dh-golang is now in Debian unstable. With this debhelper addon, packaging software written in Go is very simple. Have a look at the...
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https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2013-05-20-systemd-survey/
Debian systemd survey (2013) - Michael Stapelberg
In the past, we have had multiple heated discussions involving systemd. We (the pkg-systemd-maintainers team) would like to better understand why some people...
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https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2016-11-24-raspberry-pi-3/
Debian stretch on the Raspberry Pi 3 (2016) - Michael Stapelberg
The last couple of days, I worked on getting Debian to run on the Raspberry Pi 3. Thanks to the work of many talented people, the Linux kernel in version 4.8...
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https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2020-01-21-initramfs-from-scratch-golang/
distri: 20x faster initramfs (initrd) from scratch (2020) - Michael Stapelberg
In case you are not yet familiar with why an initramfs (or initrd, or initial ramdisk) is typically used when starting Linux, let me quote the wikipedia...
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https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2013-05-27-systemd-survey-results/
Results of the Debian systemd survey (2013) - Michael Stapelberg
A week ago, we started the Debian systemd survey. The goal was to figure out a few trends and answer the following two questions: Do our subjective impressions...
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Stamp It! All Programs Must Report Their Version - Michael Stapelberg
Recently, during a production incident response, I guessed the root cause of an outage correctly within less than an hour (cool!) and submitted a fix just to...
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