Steve Yegge Rules
July 19th, 2008I stopped writing in this blog once I realized that people actually read it. I received a few comments in one technical blog post. They pushed me over a cliff. Instead of publishing whatever popped into my mind regardless of the quality of the idea or writing, I hesitated over every agonizing sentence. Every word strangled me. I began to engineer my very thoughts to match that post’s style and topic, but I often failed and quit. I have 28 abortive drafts in WordPress.
I truly enjoyed clarifying my thinking through writing. So, I will write more. Perhaps I will write something tautologically wrong or use dirty slang. Irrespective of the quality, I will write.
Incidentally, Steve Yegge inspired me to start writing again. If you program computers, you will love Steve’s Drunken Rants. With his 20 years of programming experience, he cuts down to the bone of programming problems and programming triumphs. He writes thoughtfully and completely; the rants often span several thousand words. He wrote them, he claims, while drinking wine during the time when he worked at Amazon.
Now, he works at Google and has a more current blog: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ . The newer rants also require serious time commitments to read, but each one imparts to me incredible insights. For example, I now love JIT’s.
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