Saturday, 24th January 2026
Systematic Debugging the Overnight OOM
Tracking down the OOM event I woke up this morning to find my GNOME session had crashed overnight. Terminal sessions gone, browsers closed, had to log back in. The journalctl output told me why: an Out of Memory event that killed 48 processes at 00:56:33. My gut reaction was to …
Viewport Size: a tiny Chrome extension for seeing your viewport dimensions
I test responsive designs constantly. Chrome DevTools can do this, but I wanted something simpler. Just the current viewport width and height, visible at all times, updating as I drag the window edge. I looked at Viewport Resizer and Window Resizer. Both seemed heavier than I needed. I also couldn’t …