Programming Digest - PD#582 A Git story

A Git story
33 minutes by Brachiosoft

Linus Torvalds once wrote in a book that he created Linux just for fun, but it ended up sparking a revolution. Git, his second major creation, also an accidental revolution. It’s now a standard tool for software engineers, but its origin story wasn’t so much fun this time, at least for Linus.

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Serving a billion web requests with boring code
15 minutes by Bill Mill

My north star when building the system was to keep it as boring as possible. We released after about a year of development, and were able to help millions of people find and purchase health care.

The history of Alt+number sequences
3 minutes by Raymond Chen

Code pages and custom keyboard handling. And why Alt+9731 sometimes gives you a heart and sometimes a snowman.

8 versions of UUID and when to use them
3 minutes by Nicole Tietz

Usually when we have multiple numbered versions, the higher numbers are newer and presumed to be better. In contrast, there are 8 UUID versions which are different and all defined in the standard.

Lessons learned in 35 years of making software
8 minutes by Jim Grey

It’s more about soft skills than technical skills. There is no substitute for working software in production.

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