The Linker is glad to take responsibility for speaking to nerds in a big bar last week. You wouldn’t know about it because the nerds in question were poseurs. They didn’t even know when the first undersea cable was laid (1851) and had never heard of Dwarf Fortress. Not really nerds, then, eh?

Microsoft responds to a dev over Windows Phone 7.

On being startled by a programming language…

C? Go? Cgo!

JavaScript Trie performance analysis…

Your Web, half a second sooner…

Don’t distract new programmers with OOP.

Picol: a TCL interpreter in fewer than 550 lines of C…

Today’s random Wikipedia entry: Wings!