December 2020 Rx/Tx

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 SQLite Coded In C [6 min]
• Notes on Programming in C [11 min]
• Computing History at Bell Labs (transcript) [30 min]
• hxp CTF 2020: wisdom2 [5 min]
• Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel [4 min]
• Ward Explains Debt Metaphor [3 min]
• Technical debt isn't technical — Einar W. Høst (video) [39 min]
• Why inheritance never made any sense [4 min]
• Loopy — Robert C. Martin [7 min]
• Alan Kay Did Not Invent Objects [5 min]
• A few words on Doug Engelbart [4 min]
• KeystoneInterface — Martin Fowler [4 min]
• How Time Machine Works [6 min]
• Conference Conduct — Robert C. Martin [7 min]
• Days of Rage [59 min]
• The Crazy Story of How Soviet Russia Bugged an American Embassy’s Typewriters [3 min]