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 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 this April:

• The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories [11 min]
• Eric Bier (PARC research scientist) Demonstrates Cedar (integrated environment & programming language) (video) [116 min]
• The Earliest UNIX Code: An Anniversary Source Code Release [7 min]
• The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System [31 min]
• The Top Programming Languages 2019 [4 min]
• As a software engineer, what's the most ingenious line of code you've seen? [6 min]
• How to Set Your Future Self Up for Success with Good Coding Habits [11 min]
• C++17 upgrades you should be using in your code [7 min]
• How to (std …

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 January's receive and transmit are the following:

• 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age [26 min]
• How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations [9 min]
• The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland [5 min]
• Richard Hamming "You and Your Research" (transcript) [62 min]
• How Unix Works: Become a Better Software Engineer [30 min]
• Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits: Break bad UNIX usage patterns [15 min]
• Brian Moriarty (about his lecture in The Witness) "I Saw What I Did There" (video) [38 min]
• Brian Moriarty "The Secret …

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 …