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 …

Receive and transmit in May:

• Making Wrong Code Look Wrong [23 min]
• Cleaner, more elegant, and harder to recognize [5 min]
• A rant against flow control macros [2 min]
• How Microsoft Lost the API War [27 min]
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) [17 min]
• Why you should migrate everything from Linux to BSD [18 min]
• Another thing to consider: why is perl in the base system [1 min]
• 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice [8 min]
• How I got rich on the other hand [1 min]
• The Secure Developer: Robert C …

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 …