David Mackenzie is the author (or co-author) of many basic GNU utilities such as `ls`, `chmod`, `touch`, and many others. I was looking up the manpage for the `install` command today and came across his name listed as its sole author. I had some time to kill, so I looked him up and this fascinating video came up in which he discusses his early life and how he came to work for GNU and wrote all these utilities. I highly recommend watching this till the end.
Videos of this caliber are rare to find organically. I would have never otherwise known that he had a YouTube channel. Thank you very much for posting this.
I appreciate the attempted correction, but I do mean organic. I don't know about you, but I definitely do not have many people in my daily life that would ever link or post about such a thing. Not only that, but I've had a YouTube feed that is 30% non-technical garbage for a couple of years despite my best efforts, thereby making an organic discovery even more unlikely. If I had been searching systematically, there's a good chance I could have found it, however I haven't really tried to hunt down many personal channels for such people.
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David Mackenzie is the author (or co-author) of many basic GNU utilities such as `ls`, `chmod`, `touch`, and many others. I was looking up the manpage for the `install` command today and came across his name listed as its sole author. I had some time to kill, so I looked him up and this fascinating video came up in which he discusses his early life and how he came to work for GNU and wrote all these utilities. I highly recommend watching this till the end.
Videos of this caliber are rare to find organically. I would have never otherwise known that he had a YouTube channel. Thank you very much for posting this.
you meant systematically or programmatically?
hearing from someone else is indeed organic
I appreciate the attempted correction, but I do mean organic. I don't know about you, but I definitely do not have many people in my daily life that would ever link or post about such a thing. Not only that, but I've had a YouTube feed that is 30% non-technical garbage for a couple of years despite my best efforts, thereby making an organic discovery even more unlikely. If I had been searching systematically, there's a good chance I could have found it, however I haven't really tried to hunt down many personal channels for such people.
His talks are great to watch, and the books on BSD design as well.
If you had to pick one book, which one would you select?
At 46:10, David is showing an article on AI and UNIX from UnixWorld magazine in 1984 and subtly comments "Nothing new there..."