April 9, 2021

inkelinks S02E11

¡Hola! I hope you’re doing well. Today we’ll dive a bit into what a Docker image is, and a little bit of history about two odd things all programmers seem to get wrong.

Links

• Docker without Docker · Fly [11m]
  Did you ever wonder how does a Docker image work and how are they created? Wonder no more and read this article to demystify all the magic that happens when you run docker build.
• There’s Always More History [6m]
  Why Vim uses hjkl for movement? And why JavaScript (and Java and C) months start from 0? Simple questions with interesting answers.

Video of the week

Unix Architecture Evolution from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2018 FreeBSD: Important Milestones and Lessons Learned [40m]
A wonderful recap on how Unix architecture evolved through time from a very small kernel (2,584 lines assembly of code!) to the massive piece of software that it is today. As one of the comments said, I cannot recommend this one enough.