Atlas

• ★ Essentials
• 👍 Good read
• 💩 Not worth it
• 🤓 Language nerd
• 😄 Humor
• 📚 Story / fiction
• 🕹️ Gaming
• 🔮 Called it
• 🤡 Whiffed it

Writing

• ★ Essentials My biggest-impact pieces — boardroom-circuit recent ones and oldies people still tell me they love.
• 🤓 Languages Two decades hunting the perfect programming language — Lisp, the JVM, scripting smackdowns.
• 😄 Humor Written in the style of Dave Barry, my forty-year hero — yes, even the Platforms Rant.
• Interviewing Twenty years on hiring and being hired — the loop, the screen, and why I'd now scrap it all.
• 🕹️ Gaming and Media Half a century a gamer, since an Atari in 1977. I can't help writing about games.
• 📚 Stories Purely personal narratives, nothing here but disgusting self-indulgence. Bah!
• The Platforms Rant My 2011 accidentally-public memo on platform thinking and the Bezos API mandate.
• 🔮 Predictions A scorecard of calls I made early in print — the hits kept honestly beside the misses.
• All writing Everything at once — books, essays, talks, podcasts, code. The full shelf.
• Coverage & Impact New York Times, Wired, Harvard Business Review, Deloitte — and the essays the industry argued with for twenty years.

Talks & Podcasts

• Talks Stanford, OSCON, ETLS, Sourcegraph, and more — most with video.
• Podcasts Long-form conversations — Pragmatic Engineer, Latent Space, Hanselminutes, and others.

Projects

• Vibe Coding (the book) 2025, with Gene Kim, foreword by Dario Amodei. Gold Medal, 2026 Axiom Book Awards.
• Code Gas Town, Beads, Wyvern, Grok, js2-mode — my biggest shipping work.
• Wyvern A graphical MUD, thirty years in the making — started 1995, still online today.

Quieter corners

• Personal Music, photos, fiction, family.
• The Universe A programmer's view of the universe — three essays plus novels in progress.

The archive

By the numbers.

The 160 essays catalogued at yegge.ai work out to roughly 677,000 words — about 4,200 per essay. For scale:

• 1.4× as long as the Lord of the Rings trilogy
• 3.3× funnier than Crime and Punishment
• 30% less verbose than The Silmarillion
• 50% easier to read than Finnegans Wake

The 4,200-word average is within rounding distance of one Yegge — a unit of length added to Urban Dictionary in November 2011, defined as “approximately 4000 words or 25 kilobytes.” The unit has held up over my entire writing career.