“When I started writing PHP…” is a nice look at how PHP ecosystem has changed in the last 20 years. Those of us who have been using it since then, are guaranteed to drop a nostalgic tear.
The running joke “you’re not a real PHP developer until you’ve written your own CMS and discarded it” wasn’t a joke yet. It was just becoming reality, but it wasn’t old enough yet to be a joke. (Yes, I wrote my own CMS and discarded it.)
“The HTML we never had” is an interesting look at some features of HTML, that weren’t implemented, but could have been easily done, and if they were, how different the modern web development would be.
I agree that the “src” attribute makes a lot of sense for tags other than just images and videos.
“The World through the Eyes of the US” is an absolutely awesome visualization that shows how the US saw the rest of the world over the last 100 years. It is based on 700,000+ headlines in the News York Times, thanks to the archives.
We need more of this!
“Technology, Ranked” is the list of the 100 most important technologies ever invented by the human kind. Given how much technology we have invented, I think it’s much harder to compile such a list than to argue the choices and order. Overall, it’s quite a fair representation, with, maybe, slightly biased look towards the USA than the global population.
I have recently blogged about the Faces of Open Source project. That’s a great initiative. But here’s another one, with a lot more practical approach – Programmer Playing Cards. It is a deck of playing cards, featuring people who influenced the world of computer programming in a variety of ways. Each card has a photo of a person, his or her name, what was the influence, and, as a nice touch, a quote from that person.
Here’s an example with Larry Wall.
More examples as well as instructions on how to get these cards are here.