Today we cover one of the primary building blocks for blockchain – Hash Functions.
References:
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Episode 7 – XLS, XLSX What is Difference?
Today I cover a small “oops” from the UK health center, and extend some thoughts on its relationship to “Real Programming”.
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Episode 6 – Sanity while remote for coders
How I’m trying to keep sane while working remote. Some basic guidelines I’ve adopted over years of remote work.
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Episode 5 – Ethics of Software Programmers
Today I discuss the implications of ethics in software development. We’ll take a look at some of my personal experience, and 2 new Netflix documentaries: The Social Dilemma, and Challenger: The Final Flight.
- IBM and the Nazis – HBR podcast on IBM and the Holocaust
- Twitter apologizes for racist algorithm – Controversy on twitter algorithm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster – Challenger Disaster
- Clean Coder – code of conduct for software engineers
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Dilemma – Social Dilemma Movie
- Facebook ethics considerations – coverage of Facebook performing user sentiment analysis
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Episode 4 – Fall 2020 Programming Developments
A look at major new developments in the coding world for C/C++ – and some brief talk on Amazon BottleRocket and Microsoft’s Hyper-V advancements.
- Amazon Announcement for “BottleRocket” Linux distribution
- ZDNet Coverage – Microsoft Hyper-V patches for Linux kernel as root
- Infoworld Coverage – C++20 technical approval
- CMake feature tracker – CMake C++ modules support
- C++ Coroutines – Microsoft devlog entry on C++20 coroutines
- MSVC 16.8 preview 3 – Microsoft improving conformance devlog
- Python 3.9 Update
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Episode 3 – To College or not to College?
For new and aspiring developers – in this episode I answer the #1 question asked from future coders – should I go to college? Pros and Cons of a college degree and the University system.
Contents: The Cold Truth of Job Seeking. Beware of For-Profit systems. Selecting a Degree. The actual meaning of a Computer Science degree.
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Episode 2 – The Decline of Usenet
We return to the early 80s and 90s to discuss the rise of consumer access to Usenet and the following decline of the service and its rise to the ranks of the undead.
Contents:
- Show introduction
- Merging of networks
- SPAM, SPAM, more SPAM
- A brief analysis of the “Decline”
Resources:
- Mozilla Thunderbird: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
- Eternal September: https://www.eternal-september.org/
Sources:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987679 – Hacker News forum conversation from 2015 discussing the decline of Usenet availability with ISPs
- https://web.archive.org/web/20100726200800/www.dukenews.duke.edu/2010/05/usenet.html – Duke shuts down its usenet server
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Adams_(Internet_pioneer)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070822223030/https://faqs.cs.uu.nl/na-dir/usenet/software/part1.html – Earlier Usenet Documentation
- ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/doc/programming/ – FTP archive including papers on usenet
- https://www.giganews.com/usenet-history/ – Giganews Usenet History
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe – History of CompuServ
- http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/TheSeptemberThatNeverEnded – Endless September
- https://www.fastcompany.com/3046194/a-brief-history-of-aol – History of AOL
- https://groups.google.com/g/net.news.group/c/uWqKiWoiaSA/m/yJZ1uqmCGtIJ – Great Renamining Commentary
- https://groups.google.com/g/news.misc/c/AT2DFqBWgw4 – Usenet discussion on “Commercial Access”
- https://youtu.be/1npzZu83AfU – Early AOL TV commercial
- https://www.zdnet.com/article/usenet-junk-e-mail-could-swamp-the-system-friday/ – Spam protest.
- http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Fight-Child-Porn-ByDoing-Nothing-Differently-96080 – DSL reports article and thread on dropping news groups.
- https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2008/07/02/broadband-adoption-in-the-united-states/ – Broadband uptake in the united states
Credits:
- Music by Audionautix.com – Creative Commons licensed music and commercial options available.
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Episode 1 – The Creation of Usenet
Today, we go back in time to the late 70’s and observe the events that led to the creation of newgroups and usenet. Especially as this podcast covers historic events, factual corrections will be attached to the original post and/or episode as required.
Contents:
- Introduction
- The A News Reader
- The B News Reader
- Creation of UUNET
- C News Reader, and NNTP
- Lessons Learned
Sources in essay form will be included as a follow-up to the next episode.
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Introduction the Podcast
After repeated encouragement from friends and coworkers, I’ve decided to take a dive into the world of podcasting. We’ll see if this is something that can keep going or not – but for now, I introduce the first episode of my podcast for this site.
Show contents:
- Introduction
- Inspiration
- “suckless.org” software project
- Rebuilding fun in open source development
- Venting to the world
- Future content
- Distribution and software ecosystem coverage
- Computer science topics, experiments, and interesting papers
- New developments in programming (C/C++) and technology
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Distro Thoughts #1
So, after some consideration, I’ve decided to resurrect my previous efforts at building a Linux distribution. Mostly – because I’d like to tinker with a light-weight Linux that’s easily customizable. Something that really goes “back to basics”.
My first experiments were attempting to bootstrap a Clang/Musl build variant. Ugh!
My initial environment was Ubuntu 18.04 – with a modern C++ toolchain. I thought it’d be easy to populate a chroot environment, especially without cross compiling required. The LLVM code looks generally pretty clean – big, it does a lot, but clean. The build system though? See my previous comments on build system messes. The ‘one repo’ approach assumes a rather complete environment and does not bootstrap well to a new rootfs. I thought a hacky compile from source build would be neat – but this does not seem doable.
Too much time spent on this today, time to go outside and enjoy the sun.