Preorder Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! now and use the coupon code PREORDER, and you get 30% off.  http://bit.ly/XPyFCi 

Raise your hand if, no matter how good you are otherwise, your first git commit message is usually “Initial commit”. #first!

A great follow-up on Amanda Blum’s article on Adria Richards:  http://bit.ly/16SkHBk . /via @mentalguy

Already liking Matz’s keynote: The bottleneck is motivation.  http://bit.ly/UbtDIj 

A Euler diagram to help you remember British Isles vs. British Islands vs United Kingdom vs Great Britain:  http://bit.ly/16iu6ER .

Very cool: http://t.co/qPTRXfV

Excellent: “An Introduction to Lambda Calculus and Scheme”  http://bit.ly/Zg2oUX . The rest of the site is worth browsing too.

.@silentbicycle I’m pretty sure that cucumber is an experiment against naive devs. In a nutshell: We’re being punked.

In case you care about my opinion: No, typing speed is not a good way to judge a programmer. No, you can’t learn to program in six months.

@avdi How about a Postel’s Law for criticism? Be kind in what you emit, but make the best of whatever you receive. @sstephenson

This. RT @joelmccracken: I seriously almost just googled "delete previous character in #emacs", and then I remembered the backspace key.

Started my morning right: hot cider and @silentbicycle on less familiar data structures:  http://bit.ly/UlXnq7 .

@pat_shaughnessy If you like that, you’ll *love* git add -p. Check out @rtomayko’s The Thing about Git:  http://bit.ly/GP1uBu .

“Any scholar investigating Aristotle’s account of [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] sooner or later encounters the question...” #indeed

Years from now, your children and grandchildren will ask, “What did you do during The Great PostgreSQL migration of 2013?”

If you use @machomebrew, emacs, ctags and/or vim, please weigh in here:  http://bit.ly/YLfGDS .

Joe Erlang's thesis ("Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors" - aka Erlang) is online: http://t.co/e5TciZRf.

Got Programming in Lua 3rd edition ebundle from Feisty Duck. Outstanding book and a great way to support #LuaLang.  http://www.feistyduck.com 

Nice pdf showing MiniTest 4 -> 5 changes from @the_zenspider:  http://bit.ly/YHBvYF .

Chapter 2.1.2: In which our hero discovers latexmk and the magic of “running LaTeX the correct number of times to resolve cross references”.