Pilgrimage

This

you’ll need this to grasp that

Emacs Lisp is Tetris Complete

• did not mean Turing Complete
• really did not

During a recent surf, I chanced upon this beast.

The Information Manager from Hell
– Linus

Thinking about compiling more such landmarks – an itinerary for fellow cyber pilgrims

Reviewing older codebases is an underrated exercise for software engineers

It’s a journey through the evolution of code, revealing the engineering decisions that moulded what we deal with today

Tracing the history of a project – understanding what worked, what didn’t, and how technical components evolved – has been a joy lately

In memory of the author of vim, arguably the most influential programming utility ever…

Here is a paper : “ Seven habits of effective text editing ” by him that I hope continues to inspire programmers, as it did me when I was a novice.