Compiling languages down to Javascript May 12th, 2008

A hundred years from now, all code will look both similar and different.

Emacs as an anagram of “ECMA-S” May 11th, 2008

Your editor will become your browser will become your IDE. The process has already begun. Please wait.

“You have to have something bad happen to you” January 7th, 2008

Steve Yegge on code’s worst enemy:
… This brings us to the second obviously-bad thing that can go wrong with code bases: copy and paste. It doesn’t take very long for programmers to learn this lesson the hard way. It’s not so much a rule you have to memorize as a scar you’re going to get [...]