Some of my long-time readers have seen me mention a long-festering (I believe that is the correct term at this point) project that I dubbed Rallyhat. It first started out as a “figure out when some baseball teams are in town and buy tickets” and then morphed into “a tool for helping people plan [...]

This is the final in a series of blog posts about programmers who make me feel stupid due to the amazing work they’ve done and their ability to explain it. Check out my thoughts on Geoffrey Grosenbach, Antirez, Rich Hickey and Ezra Zygmuntowicz.
I am, for lack of a better phrase, a framework whore. [...]

This is the 4th out of 5 blog posts about programmers who I find make me feel stupid when I read what they write or hear them speak. Stupid because what they say is so obvious I cannot believe I missed it. See my thoughts on Geoffrey Grosenbach, Antirez and Rich Hickey.

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This is the third in a series of blog posts where I talk about people who’s skills as programmers make me feel stupid. Check out my thoughts on Geoffrey Grosenbach and Antirez.

As a person who learned the hard way about how tough it is creating web applications that can handle state and concurrency [...]

This is the second of a five-part series where I highlight some developers who are doing work or espousing practices that make me feel stupid and realize where I need to push my skills towards. Today’s source of inspiration: the man know by many online as Antirez, Italian software developer Salvatore Sanfilippo.
Antirez is [...]