/Hillel Wayne

Are We *Really* Engineers? (Video) tl;dr: Hillel talked to people who worked as both a software and a traditional engineer, learning 3 things: "we are in fact engineers, we’re not actually that different as a field, and there’s a lot we can both teach and learn."

featured in #189


The Hard Part of Learning a Language tl;dr: A laundry list of things you need to know in order to start hacking in a new language. 

featured in #181


10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages tl;dr: Given that programming languages cognates, it's a starting to point to see which languages influenced others. 

featured in #178


Donald Knuth Was Framed tl;dr: A recant and exploration of the infamous story of Donald Knuth and Douglas Mcilroy of Bell Labs.

featured in #174


The Epistemology Of Software Quality tl;dr: The quality of developed software is largely driven by human factors not tooling, yet we overemphasize the latter. Factors such as sleep, hours worked and stress levels are key. 

featured in #163