* [The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html)
* [The Old New Thing](http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/), by an engineer for MS who writes about stupid hacks in the name of backwards compatibility
* [Jamie Zawinski's](http://www.jwz.org/doc/) writings / rants. jwz developed Netscape 1-3, and played a role in the open sourcing of Netscape as Mozilla.
+ * [Paul Graham's Essays](http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html) on Software, Startups, and Writing.