Receive and transmit hitherto in March:

• Peter Thiel: Zero to One—Interview by Eric Metaxas (video) [77 min]
• Free Speech by Matthias Felleisen [5 min]
• Deep Thoughts Engineering Speaker Series (2015): John Carmack (video) [59 min]
• The Best Twitter Search Tricks [2 min]
• Rainbow Stream terminal-based Twitter client (repo) [variadic]
• N-O-D-E Cyber Dump 69 (video) [3 min]
• Bash $* and $@ [2 min]
• My Philosophy on "Dot Files" [7 min]
• Rieffel, E. G. (2019). Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor (NASA Ames Research Center NASA/TP-2019-220319). [18 min]
• Digital Minimalism Review (review) [3 min]
• Korn Shell Story [3 min]
• A Response to Yuval …

Among February's receive and transmit are the following:

• 10 projects to start contributing to OpenBSD [4 min]
• Sydney C++ Meetup: Alexander Radchenko "Keep it C-mple" (video) [33 min]
• Brian Will: Object-Oriented Programming is Bad (video) [44 min]
• PyCon 2012: Jack Diederich "Stop Writing Classes" (video) [27 min]
• Joe Armstrong: Why OO Sucks [6 min]
• Bad Engineering Properties of Object-Oriented Languages [7 min]
• Why Objects Suck [2 min]
• Object-Oriented Programming—The Trillion Dollar Disaster [30 min]
• Object-Oriented Considered Harmful [4 min]
• Object Oriented Programming Oversold! [43 min]
• Object-oriented oblivion [5 min]
• The Forgotten History of OOP [14 min]
• Your Code: OOP or POO …

Among February's receive and transmit are the following:

• After All These Years, the World is Still Powered by C Programming [13 min]
• Dennis Ritchie: The Development of the C Language [40 min]
• Richard P. Gabriel: The Rise of Worse is Better [7 min]
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years [11 min]
• Tom Lyon: My Summer at Bell Labs (part 1) [2 min]
• Tom Lyon: My Summer at Bell Labs (part 2) [3 min]
• A Detailed Explanation of Abstraction in Software Development [29 min]
• RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths [2 min]
• What is Urbit? An Introduction. [6 min]
• OpenSMTPD advisory dissected [22 min …

Among January's receive and transmit are the following:

• Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the World [19 min]
• Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want [2 min]
• Repurpose Optical Drive With RPi [8 min]
• Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code [1 min]
• Naval Ravikant "Product and Media Are New Leverage" (video) [5 min]
• Is Quantum Computing a Cyber Security Threat? [6 min]
• RMIT to tackle cyber security challenges [2 min]
• Australia’s 2020 Cyber Security Strategy (report) [38 m]
• Evolving trends in security 2020 [4 min]
• SSH Handshake Explained [7 min]
• How is git commit …

Among December's receive and transmit are the following recommendations:

• Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job [4 min]
• Stupid Unix Tricks [19 m]
• The hard part in becoming a command line wizard [3 min]
• But how does bitcoin actually work? (video) [26 min]
• How the Bitcoin protocol actually works [39 min]
• The Portal: Peter Thiel "An Era of Stagnation & Universal Institutional Failure" (video) [172 min]
• Rubin Report: Peter Thiel “Trump, Gawker, and Leaving Silicon Valley" (video) [131 min]
• Stanford University: Peter Thiel “Competition is for losers” (video) [50 min]
• The Ben Shapiro Show: David Berlinski (video) [61 min]
• William …

Among November's receive and transmit, the following links are recommended reading and watching:

• A Career Switcher’s Guide to Landing Your Dream Tech Job [61 min]
• Big-O: how code slows as data grows [13 min]
• A Gentle Introduction to Algorithm Complexity Analysis [47 min]
• Python Oddities (video) [32 min]
• The Amazing Mutable, Immutable Tuple, and Other Philosophical Digressions (video) [21 min]
• Hints for writing UNIX tools [6 min]
• Formatting Disks: what's really happening? [11 min]
• Peter Thiel's Religion [69 min]
• What is Quantum Computing? Google's Quantum Supremacy Claim Explained [4 min]
• Perlisisms: Epigrams in Programming [9 min]
• Biography of a Cypherpunk, and …

Among October's receive and transmit, the following links are recommended reading:

• Sun Microsystems: A Look Back at a Tech Company Ahead of its Time [8 min]
• First Principles: Elon Musk on the Power of Thinking for Yourself [7 min]
• -2000 Lines Of Code [1 min]
• MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code [4 min]
• Celebrating 50 Years of Unix [4 min]
• UNIX History and Timeline [5 min]
• More on FreeBSD Refcount Overflows [8 min]
• OpenBSD Is C Documentation [3 min]
• The Lines of Code That Changed Everything [27 min]
• Bel: Paul Graham's new Lisp dialect [1 min]
• The UNIX Game [variadic]

If you're even slightly interested in systems programming, a Unix afficionado, or simply appreciative of highly motivated, intelligent, and genuinely good people, and aren't already aware of Andreas Kling, you'll most definitely enjoy subscribing to his YouTube channel. Andreas regularly shares screencasts of his impressively productive hacking sessions where you'll find him hacking on Serenity—a Unix-like operatng system that he's built from the ground up, entirely from scratch—or catch his candid and enlightening commute talks where he answers questions submitted by followers while sharing personal insights and experiences from his life as a programmer who has worked at places like …

Correction: ASLR was not innovated by OpenBSD, the Linux PaX project published the first design and implementation of ASLR in July 2001 as a patch for the Linux kernel. ASLR was then added to OpenBSD 3.4 in 2003 followed by Linux in 2005. —Unix Sheikh

Continuing with the theme of my last post regarding the impetus of the OpenBSD project, and the principles by which development of the operating system adheres, I felt compelled to enumerate some of the tangible benefits that such a system produces. The principled purist within me notwithstanding, for what reason do I not only choose to …

I was perusing some not-too-recent-nor-old messages on the misc@openbsd.org mailing list when I entered a thread based on an interest in the subject—OpenBSD Project—where after reading the original message I would have normally passed on the rest but fortuitously didn't, and was pleased to read a contribution that reminded me of one of OpenBSD's most compelling merits:

"If your choice of operating system depends on any kind of formalities rather than on technical quality, OpenBSD is not the project you are looking for."

The entire message deserves a read but this key point made by author Ingo Schwarze …