Steve Yegge's Blog - My Evaluation

While browsing the Internet during bouts of "microboredom", I happened to stumble across the rather unique blog of Stevey Yegge, a software engineer that works for Google. He began this blogging project on Blogspot, which is yet another acquisition of Google's. He's a rather knowledgeable fellow, presenting interesting insights on subjects such as programming, technology news, interviewing, and various other elements of his job at Google.

Just a few interesting entries include:

September 01, 2007 - Stevey's Tech News, Issue #1 - Steve presents some amusing "tech-industry stories".

February 10, 2007 - The Next Big Language - Steve shares some thoughts on programming languages and language design.

And, rather appropriately,
January 23, 2005 - You Should Write Blogs - An entry written on an old Amazon blog, Steve links to this entry hosted on his Googlepages account, on why he recommends the practice of blogging

An interesting element of Steve's blog - apparently Google does not take kindly to employees discussing upcoming Google projects on their personal blog. This is discussed in the following statement found in "The Next Big Language" -

Note: after I wrote this entry, one or two commenters speculated that I might be talking about something Google is doing. They're barking up the wrong tree: I may not be the smartest feller ever to fall off the cabbage truck, but I'm not -that- stupid. The speculation in this blog is all based on stuff I've read on the net. It's purely my own ideas and opinions, and I don't speak for Google (nor in today's entry, even -about- Google). You'll have to look beyond Google for clues about NBL. Enjoy!

This policy is quite common. With the advent of blogging, it becomes even easier for employees to publish vital company secrets, either knowingly, or unknowingly, online. Concerns for this are detailed in this Informationweek story. (September 9, 2002 - Beware the Blog in your Company's Future)

Tagging isn't really used in this blog, though, with Google's efficient search technologies at work, they're not entirely necessary. The amount of personal information revealed about Steve is rather limited; there's nothing online that I would say could pose a potential threat. All that is really given is a photograph, a name, and a job title/description. Still, anyone dedicated enough could find more information available online, I'm certain.

Do yourself a favor, check out Steve's blog at http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/