UseTheSource: a sort of "Hacker News" that's about code
Yesterday on Hacker News someone called a piece of my code beautiful. It occurred to me that it would be nice to have a place where people talk about beautiful or interesting code or algorithms.
So, I've resurrected my old usethesource.com domain name and created UseTheSource: a place where you can read about (and submit) great source.
I've seeded it with some recent, interesting pieces (and a couple of pieces of my own code). Let's try to make it a place where people come to read about interesting software (and not the business side of software).
There's a short introduction here.
So, I've resurrected my old usethesource.com domain name and created UseTheSource: a place where you can read about (and submit) great source.
I've seeded it with some recent, interesting pieces (and a couple of pieces of my own code). Let's try to make it a place where people come to read about interesting software (and not the business side of software).
There's a short introduction here.
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3 Comments:
Great idea :-) I had written a post sometime back - my take on how to write beautiful code. While writing that post, I had proposed, that, in order to write beautiful code, one must be able to recognize it! I pointed to a few books and code repositories as places one could look however, I had felt the need for a place where one could look at beautiful code, a bit like a open source code gallery. This seems to fit the bill :-) Thanks for creating it!
You need a way to create an ecosystem where the uber-crowd are active content providers and noobs are gleaners. That's not easy. We don't want eager-ten-statements-in-one-liners telling us what beautiful code is.
Great site...It would be nice to have an RSS feed though (that's how I personally keep up with HN and most other sites).
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