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 …

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 …