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Who is Yegge and why should I care? All I found on google is that he wrote code for google and blogs.
by boppo1 3y ago
Who is Yegge and why should I care? All I found on google is that he wrote code for google and blogs.
- wsgeorge 3y agoHe's an engineers who's been involved (or close to) some of the most influential technologies/products in use in the last 10 years, and his blog posts are quite celebrated and respected. Think of him as an essayist. Like Paul Graham (pg on this site)
- sundarurfriend 3y ago1 part pg and 3 parts _why maybe.
- simonw 3y agoHe's been a popular tech writer for a couple of decades. He's written some very influential pieces in the past - here's a copy of one of his most famous (I don't think the original is available any more): https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
- sundarurfriend 3y ago> (I don't think the original is available any more) That's because this one was not a blog post, it was a Google+ post that he intended to share internally with Google only. He had other great rants on his actual blog though, about (vague memory here) Emacs, game development, language design, etc.
- Sai_ 3y agoI first heard about him after an internal post/rant of his about Google+ got leaked and went viral. My impression is that he is a Kardashian - famous for being famous - in the software world.