The Dan York Report

It was 50 years ago in the summer of 1969 that the Unix operating system was created at Bell Labs by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and their colleagues. In this episode I talk about the large effect Unix has had on my own life, in all of its many variations, and celebrate the 50 years of this remarkable creation. More info:

https://www.bell-labs.com/var/articles/celebrating-50-years-unix/

https://www.bell-labs.com/unix50/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix

Once upon a time, our mental model of how networking worked was rather simple. You had a device connected to a network (a "client") and a server to which that device was connecting. Each had a host name and an IP address. The server was typically a computer on a desk or in a rack. But that's not TODAY's network... now instead we have content delivery networks (CDNs), Anycast networks, containers and so much more.. it's a FASCINATING time to be in networking! I talk about all of that on this episode...

What do you like in IOS 13? After using it for a number of weeks now, I reflect on what I like and dislike...

Will quantum cryptography affect the DNS and DNSSEC? If so, how? and when? Today at the "Tech Day" part of the ICANN 66 meeting in Montreal, John Levine spoke about what impact quantum crypto might have on DNS. His slides are available at:

https://static.ptbl.co/static/attachments/232986/1572893313.pdf?1572893313

In this TDYR episode, I talk about what John said in that session and my thoughts around it all.

NIST's "Post-Quantum Cryptography" work mentioned in the episode can be found at: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Post-Quantum-Cryptography/Post-Quantum-Cryptography-Standardization

This week I'm at the ICANN 66 meeting in Montreal participating in sessions about DNS security, privacy, routing security and more... in this episode I talk a bit about the history of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and what I'll be doing there this week. More info can be found at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN

https://66.schedule.icann.org/

Have you ever wanted to start podcasting but didn't know how to begin? Google Podcast and PRX just launched a "Podcasting 101" 10-part video series that explains many aspects of getting started with podcasting. In this episode I talk about what the videos cover and how I believe they can help people in the early stage of podcasting. You can find the videos at:

https://googlecp.prx.org/

Other articles about the Podcasting 101 videos can be found at:

- https://www.blog.google/products/search/want-make-podcast-5-tips-get-you-started/

- https://medium.com/prxofficial/podcasting-101-with-sean-rameswaram-a8f04014b1e8

Having failed to complete National Podcast Post Month (NaPodPoMo) back in 2017, why do I think it will be different this time? In this episode I talk about that... and invite listeners to join me for the next 30 days...

In the beginning, a podcast was a never-ending set of episodes, week after week after week... (or daily or monthly). It was exhausting and many shows "podfaded". But in recent years now formats such as "series" or "seasons" have emerged. In this episode I talk about how that lowers the barrier to entry to starting a podcast, and how it can be beneficial for organizing a podcast...

It's been 4 months since I last recorded one of my podcast episode, and while it may be tempting to blame it on work responsibilities and limited personal time, I think it's really something more... as podcasting has become increasingly "professionalized" and expectations have been raised, there's a certain sense that in order to be in the podcasting space, you need to step up the quality of what you do. And while that is true in many ways, there also does continue to be space for many diverse voices and diverse forms of content...

WordPress 5.2 came out back on May 7, 2019, and if you haven't upgraded, or just upgraded but didn't really pay attention to what was included, I talk in this episode about what is in WP 5.2 and why it merits upgrading and investigating. More info: https://wordpress.org/news/2019/05/jaco/ and https://blog.emojipedia.org/twemoji-12-0-emoji-changelog/