From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:43:41 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: summer-reading: Phrasing changes
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summer-reading: Phrasing changes

Companies don't write well, Raymond Chen does not write in the name of
backwards compatibility, and jwz did not become Mozilla in order to open
Netscape's source. :-)
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@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ Don't forget about [Safari](http://safari.oreilly.com/) -- O'Reilly books online
 
 ## Blogs, etc.
 
- * [Joel on Software](http://www.joelonsoftware.com), a software developer in charge of a small company who writes well
+ * [Joel on Software](http://www.joelonsoftware.com) (no longer being updated), written by the author of a small software development firm
   * [Making Wrong Code Look Wrong](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html)
   * [The Law of Leaky Abstractions](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html)
   * [Things You Should Never Do](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html), i.e., rewrite software from scratch
   * [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.
+ * [The Old New Thing](http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/), by a Microsoft engineer. The premise of the blog is stupid hacks needed for backwards compatibility, but it also covers general Windows API design.
+ * [Jamie Zawinski's](http://www.jwz.org/doc/) writings / rants. jwz developed Netscape 1-3, and played a role in Netscape being open sourced and becoming Mozilla.
+ * [Paul Graham's Essays](http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html) on software, startups, and writing. Paul Graham is noted for founding Viaweb (later Yahoo! Store) and Y Combinator.