Receive and transmit for January 2021.

• Price Vs. Value [5 min]
• 12 Types of Highly Effective Software Developer [1 min]
• Why the FBI can’t get your browsing history from Apple iCloud [7 min]
• Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call [20 min]
• SQLite is not a toy database [8 min]
• Why Clojure? [8 min]
• Toward a "modern" Emacs [7 min]
• Fossil is not Relational [11 min]
• What protocol/standard is used by terminals? [5 min]
• Interfaces [6 min]
• Deleting code [7 min]
• Why I Stopped Reading “How I Became a Software Developer” Articles [8 min]
• There …

Receive and transmit for January 2021.

• The many traditions of non-governmental money (Part I) [34 min]
• Why I am Bearish on Substack [8 min]
• Languages, Levels, Libraries, and Longevity [13 min]
• Pointers in C Part One: Basics [9 min]
• Asynchronous Communication: The Real Reason Remote Workers Are More Productive [14 min]
• The Futurists—1967 Predictions For The 21st Century. (video) [25 min]
• Yagni [8 min]
• PullRequest [4 min]
• Git remote branches and Git's missing terminology [7 min]
• Git's rejected push error [12 min]
• Learn X in Y minutes Where X=C [22 min]
• My C FAQ: things I wished I had learned …

Receive and transmit for December. If pressed for time, Bert Hubert's historical account of PowerDNS is a great read, and I found the Days of Rage article enlightening.

• This is Water by David Foster Wallace (transcript) [17 min]
• History of PowerDNS: 2013-2020 (Technology) [18 min]
• IPv6 Is a Total Nightmare — This is Why [24 min]
• 10 Most(ly dead) influential programming languages [15 min]
• When seekdir() Won’t Seek to the Right Position [7 min]
• Why I Still Use Vim [4 min]
• Origins of 10X – How Valid is the Underlying Research? [15 min]
• Tools are not the Answer [4 min]
• Why Is …

Receive and transmit for November.

• The Difference Between a Framework and a Library [3 min]
• Windows turns 35: A visual history [6 min]
• Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi [12 min]
• Important Open Source projects should not use GitHub [4 min]
• the road to Hell is paved with good intentions [5 min]
• Last phase of the desktop wars? [3 min]
• Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics [2 min]
• The right to be rude [2 min]
• Atheism Is Dead. Consider This The Obituary. [15 min]
• A Conversation with Alan Kay [26 min]
• Optimizations in C++ Compilers [27 min …

Receive and transmit for October.

• What are some amazing pictures one has to see twice to understand? [1 min]
• Minimal OpenBSD Virtual Machine [3 min]
• Coinbase is a mission focused company [9 min]
• Buy Now Pay Later [17 min]
• Reflections on Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Address [13 min]
• Why SQLite Does Not Use Git [10 min]
• The Eternal Mainframe [12 min]
• The Lisp Curse [9 min]
• mtime comparison considered harmful [20 min]
• Programmer migration patterns [15 min]
• The little-known story of the first IoT device [5 min]
• The world in which IPv6 was a good design [25 min]
• Why the Future Doesn't Need …

Receive and transmit for September.

• On the use of a life [5 min]
• Embrace, extend, and finally extinguish - Microsoft plays their hand [2 min]
• The Little Things: Speeding up C++ compilation [16 min]
• Learning C++ if you already know C [7 min]
• OpenBSD Workstation Guide [9 min]
• Running Build Commands Nicely [5 min]
• Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (video) [65 min]
• Learning From Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces [9 min]
• In Pursuit of Production Minimalism [7 min]
• Book Review: Elements of Programming [8 min]
• The Practice is not the Performance: Why project-based learning fails [9 min]
• Why …

Receive and transmit for August.

• An Introduction to OpenBSD (video) [62 min]
• Tips for stable and portable software [17 min]
• Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer [20 min]
• The Golden Age of computer user groups [12 min]
• Computers as I used to love them [7 min]
• Where do argc and argv come from? [10 min]
• In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for? [3 min]
• pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than good engineering [3 min]
• Common Lisp code optimisation [3 min]
• A brief look at reStructuredText [3 min]
• Coming Home to Vim [24 min …

Receive and transmit for July; they're all quality content, but if wondering where to start, Space Rogue's review, and Joel Spolsky's advice for CS students are sure to whet the appetite:

• Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation [13 min]
• Feferman, S. (2006). Turing’s Thesis. Notices of the AMS, 53(10), 1200–1206. [21 min]
• Why is C still in use even though we have C++? [3 min]
• C++ in Coders at Work [7 min]
• Why are you Still Using C? [16 min]
• Hungarian Notation — Charles Simonyi [17 min]
• Greg Wilson — What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe …

June's receive and transmit—Carmack's Slashdot interview, and Bert Hubert's DNA article and presentation are super interesting:

• Broken by design: systemd [8 min]
• macOS Big Unsure [2 min]
• Explore the new system architecture of Apple Silicon Macs (video) [23 min]
• DNA: The Code of Life (video) [61 min]
• DNA seen through the eyes of a coder [21 min]
• John Carmack Answers (Slashdot) [17 min]
• Life of a binary [24 min]
• History of UNIX Manpages [15 min]
• Everyone quotes command line arguments the wrong way [9 min]
• Top 10 most exploited vulnerabilities list released by FBI, DHS CISA [8 min]
• Army Awards Lockheed …