When we want to change the initial commit on the main (or master) branch, we cannot use interactive rebasing and resetting. Both of them have security mechanisms to prevent this action. Instead, we either have to change our main (using —-orphan) or delete the branch while on it. Don't use rm -rf .git. This command...

Netscape Navigator 2, which featured the first version of JavaScript; image via Wikimedia. JavaScript was invented in a two-week flurry in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, at the time a newly hired developer at browser company Netscape. The project was initiated by Netscape because of a desire to extend the early Web...

In this part of the history of PowerDNS, I talk about the technical developments from 2013 to 2020. Over these years many fascinating business & hiring developments also happened, but these are described in a separate post, part 3B of the PowerDNS History. Here are the earlier parts: Part 1, Part 2 For context, the...