Stories by Hen-Riches

37Signals' "37BetterBank", circa 1998, is still better than my bank's interface from 2008

PBwiki's hiring gimmick: "ITS [sic] PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME"

Computer programming for everybody

Q: Can you shove a million spam pages down Google's throat in May 2008? A: Yes

Dennis Ritchie (R from K&R) explains "/* You are not expected to understand this */"

Alone Together in World of Warcraft, the most popular MMORPG

San Jose is hell on earth

Astronomy Picture of the Day: 13 years and going strong

Jwz's guide to backups: "Shut up. I know things. You will listen to me. Do it anyway."

Mod_rewrite: the Apache module so complex and confusing, it deserves an entire book

Google: helping high school students avoid reading books

1816: the year without a Summer

Flash as a game development platform ("Getting Real" philosophy applied to casual gaming)

Grand Theft Auto 4 expected to sell 9 million copies (reviews have been overwhelmingly positive)

WordPress 2.5: more than 500k downloads in less than 1 month

Is eager (strict) evaluation with optional laziness better than pure laziness (e.g., Haskell)?

Mac enthusiasts starting younger and younger all the time (pic)

A List Apart, Issue 257: the tragicomedy of teaching Rails to non-programmers

Obfuscated Arc: a function that changes itself everytime it's called

Agile Web Development with Rails, 3rd Ed released as beta; Sam Ruby added as co-author

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