Repo Means Reciposity and other WTFs

Fox interviewed Tom Preston-Werner about GitHub. While the interview itself is not too bad, Fox's "GitHub Dictionary" and "GitHub at a Glance" which are overlayed during the video, confirm their poor standards.

On the same screen the claim that GitHub has over 400 million users and below that GitHub has 3.4 million users. Maybe Fox is really just trying out how far they can go as a Redditor suggested.

Via Reddit

Quiz: Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

A somewhat morbid quiz where you have to guess whether the depicted person is a programming language inventor or serial killer.

Show off your typing skills

Hacker Typer

Guess the Programming Language

What's That Programming Language? is an online quiz game, where you see code and have to name the programming language it is written in. From a user point of view it has some rough edges, but a fun idea.

Explain c gibberish in plain English

cdecl: C gibberish ↔ English

Explain Shell Commands Tool

explainshell.com is an online tool that helps you make sense out of shell commands and their options.

QotD by Rich Cook: Programming today is a race

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Rich Cook