I had some memory of this from slashdot, a long time ago. It became a curious little online mini-cult. Found it: https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/09/29/0914

I had some memory of this from slashdot, a long time ago. It became a curious little online mini-cult. Found it: https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/09/29/0914253/the-programmers-stone https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/09/29/0914253/the-program... https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/10/26/137207/beyond-the-programmers-stone https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/10/26/137207/beyond-the-p...