Key Resources for today:

• Why Perfectionism and Burnout Go Hand in Hand – A lifehacker article addressing the evils of perfectionism
• Worse Is Better – Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror discussing worse is better with some examples
• The Cult of Done Manifesto – Read the Manifesto and consider adopting it in one or more areas
• The Unix Hater’s Handbook – A PDF of the Unix Hater’s Handbook

Credits:

• Audionautix – Intro music

Music: https://audionautix.com

Resources and Links:

• https://www.codementor.io/blog/merkle-trees-5h9arzd3n8 – Codementor article on merkle trees. This covers most of the material I discuss in this episode.
• https://ipfs.io/ – IPFS project homepage
• https://odysee.com/ – Odysee Video sharing service operating off of the Hash World

Credits:

• https://audionautix.com/ – Music

• Death March [Amazon]: The “standard” book describing death march projects.
• https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/changing-death-march-project-parade-6066: Paper describing death march projects
• https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/13/15782200/one-device-secret-history-iphone-brian-merchant-book-excerpt: Article on the history of the iPhone
• https://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html: Livejournal post that sparked substantial discussion and reforms in the video game industry
• https://dzone.com/articles/scrum-is-the-new-death-march: Description of scrum death marches
• “21 signs of a bad manager”: Article on signs of a bad manager
• Inc.com: Importance of work-life boundaries
• TheMuse.com: Article on setting work-life boundaries
• Business.com: Article on setting work-life boundaries

And remember:

Don’t work for Sh*tBags!

This episode does depend on pre-existing knowledge of basic boolean operators. If you aren’t familiar check out this page.

• GNU C Sources: Look for the linear congruential method in __random_r
• Sha1 Js Implementation: A well explained implementation of SHA-1 algorithm
• Md5 Algorithm Wikipedia Page: There’s pseudo code to try implementing in your favorite language.
• https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ – Get random numbers from Radioactive decay

Credits:

• https://audionautix.com/ – Music

Subjects:

• Let’s be positive
• All about embedded linux
• Be prepared: Containers are coming! (Someone please make docker-lite for embedded!)
• Risc V is up and coming real soon now
• Learn VSCode if you want a common IDE experience
• Diversity thoughts – there’s a person behind the email
• Open Source maintainers ask for our patience
• Check out Virtual Conferences in 2020

Resources:

• https://www.raspbian.org/ – The Raspbian Linux Distribution
• https://www.yoctoproject.org/ – The Yocto Linux Project
• https://www.docker.com/ – Yep, it’s coming to the embedded world. Time to learn it.
• https://theia-ide.org/ – An alternative that’s compatible to VSCode
• https://vscodium.com/ – VSCode without Microsoft’s proprietary brew
• https://open-vsx.org/ – Alternative extension store for Theia or VSCodium

Special Thanks to:

• https://audionautix.com/ – Rockin’ zombie track

• The Camel Doesn’t Have Two Humps – Commentary on the retraction of the oft-mentioned article on Computer Science being bi-modal.
• Reforming Mathematics – A detailed paper on Mathematics pedagogy, including coverage on educational theory and peer reviewed studies.
• DOJ vs Google – Washington Post story on the DOJ vs Microsoft
• Edge For Linux – Edge for Linux announcement and information

References:

• Introduction to Algorithms 3rd Ed. (CLRS) pg. 262
• FNV Algorithm
• Wikipedia SHA-2 Page

• 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

• 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

Contents: The Cold Truth of Job Seeking. Beware of For-Profit systems. Selecting a Degree. The actual meaning of a Computer Science degree.

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.

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.

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