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PHP: The Immortal Cockroach in a Button-Up Shirt

PHP emerged into the world like a neighborhood repairman barging into a collapsing building with a plastic toolbox, a wire...

Debugging: The Sacred Science of Pulling the Wrong Wedge

Debugging is the ancient art of seeing a wedge inside a half-split log and deciding, with the confidence of a...

Visual Basic: How Software Learned to File Forms

Visual Basic was the language that looked at programming, watched C and C++ swagger around like shirtless machos with anger...

SQL: The Sweaty Relationship Counselor of the Digital World

SQL entered computing the way a strict accountant enters a wedding hall: with a ledger, a stare, and a terrifying...

Software Engineering: Professional Guesswork With Version Control

Software engineering is often described by outsiders as “writing code,” in the same way warfare can be described as “disagreeing...

Bhagavad Gita

Life Advice from a Battlefield, With Better Timing

The Bhagavad Gita: When Arjuna’s Brain Blue-Screened on the Battlefield

Arjuna is not just Arjuna. Arjuna is everyone who has ever sat in the chariot of their own life, stared at the battlefield ahead, and thought, “I genuinely cannot do this.”