I recently discovered Steve Yegge’s republished internal amazon blog. This is an absolute gold-mine of insightful commentry about programming, blogging, organisiation and some other stuff. Think ‘Paul Graham’ but with less VC and more blogging.
I slurped the whole lot onto my laptop for reading on the tube, bus etc..:
wget -rNk -np “http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/blog-rants”
Uncovering treasure troves like […]
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OpenID is a decentralized identity/single-sign-on system which uses URLs to identify people. Now I haven’t particularly looked at this stuff for a while, so I was surprised to see how much had happened in the last few months.
In particular:
Verisign have joined the openid bandwagon. They’ve got somebody participating in openid2.0, and they’ve got an […]
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I’ve been battling again with Scheme recently.
Having spent the last couple of months playing with various languages, I’ve come to the conclusion that scheme is the only one that has any real possibility of becoming my next ‘general purpose language’. Python held that crown for many years, but its lack of blocks and concurrency caused […]
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This just in:
The R6RS draft is out! The 6th revision of the scheme language, and it looks like it fills the language’s biggest holes: namely a standard library module system, unicode strings and standardized exception/condition api. Hurrah!
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