I'm taking part in the 30 day learning challenge for Sea Change on the Zen Habits site. I'll be tacking the language that has managed to elude me the longest: JavaScript. I have tried many years to come to terms with JavaScript and each time I've failed to make any …

For some strange reason I've become completely enamored with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum machine. It's utterly fascinating to me how a small number of chips and some clever programming can make such an amazing machine.

Have been reading through "The ZX Spectrum Ula: How to Design a Microcomputer" and "It's …

"Women are leaving your tech company because you don’t deserve to keep us around. […] Fuck that, we’re done. It’s not us, it’s you."

http://web.archive.org/web/http://tableflip.club/

(h/t http://web.archive.org/web/http://programmingisterrible.com/post/116342157158)

The joys of looking at old Python code:

Initial pass gets rid of the Syntax errors and other egregious errors. Yay!

Then PEP8 comes along and crushes your soul by pointing out all of the lazy shit you've been getting away with all this time.

Just did a quick back-of-the envelope install of pump.io. Unfortunately I bombed out half-way through because the node.js on 12.04 is ancient by all accounts. Worse: apparently one of the ways to install a newer node.js has my favorite pet-peeve of requiring you to run curl …