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Yesterday I attended the Digital Divide Workshop ran by Agenda Digitale Ravenna. With my friend Giulio Cesare we gave a quick introductory talk on the CoderDojo we are launching in our area. Want to help as a mentor? Get in touch!

This document is an attempt to be a fairly comprehensive guide to recovering from what you did not mean to do when using git. via On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git.

This is a very good ebook, and is free for reading online. This book is for new developers, experienced developers, and everyone in between who wants to master Unix and Linux commands. This book was designed to showcase some of the most useful commands that a developer can know to help them in their daily tasks. via Softcover | Conquering the Command Line.

… and a Great Person in general. Empathy is your most important skill. Practice it with everyone you interact with, and everyone who interacts with your work. Humility goes hand in hand with empathy. Be open to the possibility (likelihood, even) that you are wrong. Know that you will always be learning and improving. accept and own up to mistakes immediately. The less you fear being wrong, the more confident you can be....

This is seriously good collection of resources for web designers and the likes, don’t miss it. I’ll let you in on a little secret: beautiful websites aren’t made, they’re found. Smart designers know where to find that perfect photo, subtle pattern or that unique icon. Here’s where the best designers go to find photos, graphics, icons, and more. via Where the best designers go to find photos and graphics | Blog....

A few days ago I tweeted: Now the project is out in the wild and I’m very excited about it. It’s all italian yes, but do know that CoderDojo is a global movement, and starting a kids coding club in your own town would probably be great idea. Come meet me next week. I will be giving a short talk about CoderDojo Ravenna and, most importantly, we’ll have a good pizza afterwards....

Would it be possible (and advisable) for a person to deal with everyday matters as if he/she was a stateless machine? Imagine if you as a person dealt with millions of requests a day from a thousand or so clients: if you had to keep track all those clients and the multiple requests they were making, it would drive you crazy. The burden of remembering would crush you. This is what our lives are like....

Dennis M. Ritchie ‘The Development of the C Language’ is one of those things any programmer should read soon or later, if nothing else for historic reasons. C came into being in the years 1969-1973, in parallel with the early development of the Unix operating system; the most creative period occurred during 1972. Another spate of changes peaked between 1977 and 1979, when portability of the Unix system was being demonstrated....

What we may not have realized is that once the browsers don’t suck, being an HTML and CSS “guru” isn’t really a very marketable skillset. 80% of what made us useful was the way we knew all the quirks and intracries of the browsers. Guess what? Those are all gone. And if they’re not, they will be in the very near future. Then what? A lot of folks who came up from that time and headspace have diversified their skillsets since....

We shouldn’t really trust this kind of statistics, I know, but when my favorite language comes out as a clear winner, I can’t resist and take them for good. Python is the “language of the year” according to the PYPL index : it had the biggest increase in popularity share in 2013. PHP had the biggest decline. Meanwhile, Java continues to have the highest popularity share among the programming languages....