Prism is a slick new JavaScript library that adds a very attractive syntax highlighter to any website with a mere 1.5KB (minified & gzipped) of extra bandwidth. Even if you're happy with Pygments ...

With the England vs. Germany game around the corner this coming Wednesday, I caught a sniff this weekend of a new book called “Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think.

For many years–decades actually–I was a big fan of beautiful code. I read almost everything by Brian Kernighan, Jon Bentley, and P. J. Plauger. This passion for elegant code was an attempt to ...