Hilarious. A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages, starting with:
1801 – Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave “hello, world” into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization.
Patent pending. Just watched Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system.
In practice. Currently getting familiar and productive with: MonogoDB, MongoMapper, Padrino, OAuth, jQuery templating.
Re-reader. If you like Google Reader as a feed reader, but don’t like the clutter, give it the minimalistic re-reader treatment:
I’d seen things like Helvetireader, which is quite lovely, but still doesn’t solve my problems. I wanted the ease of use I had with Reader, combined with a visual experience more like Readability or Instapaper. Now I have it.
200 Drink. When Friday comes and you’ve got nothing better to do in front of the screen, play the status code drinking game.