"If it works, don't touch it" is a well-known meme in the programming community. I'm glad that it's just that. A meme. Bad code didn't make me a worse developer. It made me faster, because I learned ...

The other day, I was talking to someone I met for the first time at a bar. They asked me, "What is it that you actually do, ...

Its regular expression engine was so good that other languages copied it, and its pragmatic philosophy of making easy things easy and hard things possible influenced Python, Ruby, and PHP. CPAN, its ...