Why programmers work at night

Dec 15 2011 Published by under Essays

A popular saying goes that Programmers are machines that turn caffeine into code. And sure enough, ask a random programmer when they do their best work and there’s a high chance they will admit to a lot of late nights. Some earlier, some later. A popular trend is to get up at 4am and get [...]

231 responses so far

How Lisp changed my style

Jan 11 2010 Published by under Inspiration

Image via Wikipedia This is the first post in the series of How <x> changed my style where I shall talk about tools and events that had a significant impact on my style of doing things. If you happen to like this idea, I would be very happy if you could help it spread like [...]

5 responses so far

These are the times I love my job

Dec 28 2009 Published by under Insanity

Today I spent five solid hours programming (so far) and didn’t write a single line of code, nay, not even a single character. All I did was think with the whiteboard. Eventually covering about 15 square meters of whiteboard in squiggly lines and weird characters and all sorts of stuff that I probably shouldn’t explain [...]

One response so far

« Everybody should watch Children of... Rape has never been so beautiful »