With a permanent livejournal account, and a twitter account, a whole slew of domain names of my own, and the technical savvy to pound out a blogging system from scratch in a couple of minutes, do I really need another one of these?

 

Apparently so.

20th May 2010

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The Duct Tape Programmer - Joel on Software →

Jamie Zawinski is what I would call a duct-tape programmer. And I say that with a great deal of respect. He is the kind of programmer who is hard at work building the future, and making useful things so that people can do stuff. He is the guy you want on your team building go-carts, because he has two favorite tools: duct tape and WD-40. And he will wield them elegantly even as your go-cart is careening down the hill at a mile a minute. This will happen while other programmers are still at the starting line…