In case you hadn’t noticed: I have launched a new site: StateOfCode.com. Another site? Indeed.
Whenever I write on zef.me I feel it has to be personal somehow. It’s all about me, right? Hence the name :-) I’m not going to report on “news”. I’m not going to do interviews. Who would participate in an interview for somebody’s personal blog?
And yet, I’d like to do those things. I feel there is a lot of interesting stuff going on in my field of interest: programming languages, frameworks and other developer tools — stuff we can never learn enough about. I have found that simply e-mailing a person involved in such a project, asking them questions is a great way to extract this information: “You seem to be passionate about x can you let us share in your enthusiasm?”
It turns out most people are actually friendly and want to answer your questions — they would like to share their interest.
This, combined with the latest “programmer’s news” is what I aim StateOfCode.com to become. It makes it possible to get other people to help me out on the site some day (anybody interested?). And since the site has been online barely two weeks, and already had about 6,000 visitors — it looks like a promising endeavor.
So far I’ve published two interviews. One with Bruno Jouhier on streamline.js , and another with Manuel Simoni (of the great Axis of Eval blog) on Lisp. There’s another interesting one queued to be published next week, and a few more people have agreed to participate. But there is room for opinion pieces as well, Are Web Apps And Insult to Users got a fair amount of response.
Anyway. It’s a new project and I’m enjoying it. Want to help out? Write posts, have tips? Know people I should talk to? Email me or contact me on twitter.
Be sure to follow @stateofcode on twitter as well (or me, new posts are pushed to both twitter accounts).