Someone asked me today what my favorite tech blog was. I had to think about it a bit, but I eventually decided that HackThePlanet is hands-down the best thing since sliced silicon. I’ve been reading it since 2000, and I still enjoy every post. It’s a hardcore tech geek blog that’s avoided whoring itself, posting hardcore nerd things semi-regularly. Kudos.

My new hero: DadHacker. Fun stories from 80s game programming.

Here’s a great set of articles showing off the new features in Php 5.3: Part 1, 2, 3, 4. It’s fun to watch languages evolve.

Did you ever wonder how to use Vim as an IDE? When I’m doing web development, or C/C++ on a ‘nix system, Vim (+ the OS) is my IDE.

The Mozilla2 platform aims for mobile market. It’s about bloody time. It looks like webkit has already schooled Gecko in the embedded space, so the Mozilla team has some catchup to do.

Make online scoops Flickr’s new upload screen (and other enhancements). Sweet.

A Ubuntu tool for generating boot timing charts.

JoeHewitt talks about his iUI library, an iPhone-esque Javascript/Ajax library. The library page is here (via).

An interesting take on the 3 kinds of software developers. If you’re ever asked, “what kind of developer am I?”, be wary if they’re a perpetually intermediate developer (they won’t like the answer). Purgatorio is no fun.

Google mail adds IMAP support … sort of. Sucks that it’s read only.