https://github.com/gigobyte/programming-lore

A collection of historically significant fragments about software development
https://github.com/gigobyte/programming-lore

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A collection of historically significant fragments about software development

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gigobyte/programming-lore
• Owner: gigobyte
• Created: 2022-05-05T21:12:05.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-27T16:28:35.000Z (12 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-16T07:09:16.055Z (2 months ago)
• Size: 13.7 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# General

[Getting a response on a PR 7 years later](https://github.com/gkoberger/stacksort/pull/4)

[Edsger W. Dijkstra's letter addressing replacing Haskell with Java in an undergraduate curriculum](https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/OtherDocs/To%20the%20Budget%20Council%20concerning%20Haskell.pdf)

[Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994)

["I fixie wixied the JSON-api fucksy wucksie!!! xpp"](https://github.com/Xerasin/GCinemaCraftDownloader/issues/1)

[Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me](https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/pull/155)

[VSCode deletes 3 months of work](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32405)

[Launching Valve's Steam on Linux deletes everything](https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671)

[The customer has nuclear weapons. They do not do "bounty".](https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=95644#c4)

[GitHub drama](https://nikolas.github.io/github-drama/)

# JS

[Lead developer of Bootstrap arguing with thought leader Douglas Crockford about semicolons (with JS creator Brendan Eich weighing in)](https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/the-infernal-semicolon/)

[Heated discussion on whether to make JS Promises monadic](https://github.com/promises-aplus/promises-spec/issues/94)

[How the unpublishing of the npm library leftpad broke the internet](https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code/)

[Node 18.13 and Chrome 110 breaking the web until it eventually gets reverted 2 weeks later](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/46123)

[The maintainer of core-js, one of the most widely used dependencies, shared his personal story and why he can't continue working on it](https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md)

[Font caching issue causes grunt home page to display title as "dorkq" instead](https://github.com/gruntjs/gruntjs.com/issues/81)

[Progress bar slows down npm install](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/11283)

# TS

[Development lead of TypeScript explaining why it's a fool's errand to try to guarantee type system soundness](https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/9825#issuecomment-306272034)

# HTML

[You can't parse HTML with regex StackOverflow answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/14804050)