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My kids and I played Warcraft 3 together quite a bit. It came with an editor that let you create custom maps, including the creeps. From about the age of 10 my oldest loved making …

Thank you. Redis has been the nervous system of my main project for the last eight years.

Perl incorporated regular expressions into a general purpose programming language in a way that seemed fairly unique at the time. Today they seem to be everywhere, often with the h…

alias gerp=grep For just that reason

I have a copy for home, one for work, and one to lend. "On Lisp" by the same author is a wonderful glimpse into the power of macros.

From the very end of the article... In the meantime, the Paris-based International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service will keep track of the gradual slowing of the planet…

There's a chapter about Sierra On-Line in "Hackers" by Steven Levy -- a fascinating book.