HTML Presentations

The links below will provide you skills in the ancient arts, but beware of the righteous path, for only the strongest wills can survive the perils of personal computing...

Gain insight into the ability to annoy your friends endlessly by telling them "No really, you can use Vim for everything!" Learn how to spend hours configuring your dotfiles in vain, as your custom configuration breaks constantly.

As described by Linus Torvalds himself in his first commit message "The information manager from hell". Git is a version control system that really is a joy to use, after you ascend out of hell.

The story of the beginnings of the internet and the languages that are still used today to build webpages. This is the first part of a two part series, focused on Tim's invention of HTML, Lie and Bos' invention of CSS, and most infamously, Brendan Eich's invention Mochascript

The story of the the evolution of a small scripting language that became the most popular programming language in the world. This part two of the internet series documents the history of the DOM API, JQuery's attempt to fix it's problems, and current frameworks' attempts to make Single Page Apps maintainable.