My favorite programmers (not necessarily in order of preference as all of them are legends) Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie & Brian Kernighan - Creators of C & Unix still working efficiently in one form or another on wide range of devices in the form of Linux James Gosling father of Java and wrote a version emacs called gosmacs. Go figure. Still developing and writes a blog at http://nighthacks.com/jag Bill Joy - one of the founder of Sun Micro Systems and early hacker on BSD Unix - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Joy Linus Torvalds - Creator of Linux Kernel - https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/ Richard Stallman - GNU founder - https://www.stallman.org/ Eric S Raymond - http://www.catb.org/~esr Brian Behlendorf - one of the creators of Apache Paul Graham - http://www.paulgraham.com/index.html - Author of Hackers and Painters and one of the people behind Hacker News and https://www.ycombinator.com/ Joel Spolsky - Guy who wrote the early spec for Microsoft Excel one of the most successful business application for decades and built and building wonderful products still - Trello and StackExchange are few to mention. More details at http://joelonsoftware.com/ Google’s Jeff Dean - http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/doers/2013/01/jeff_dean_facts_how_a_google_programmer_became_the_chuck_norris_of_the_internet.html

James Gosling father of Java and wrote a version emacs called gosmacs. Go figure. Still developing and writes a blog at http://nighthacks.com/jag

Good. irrespective of language you are learning, I suggest you to go through - http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html . This article helped me re-focus and become a better developer. It's really important to pickup good habits from early stages. Happy coding.

Historically it's been true and there is even a classic computer science text book called "The Mythical Man month". I suggest every serious software engineer to read this book even though it's old it talks about Large Software projects and challenges involved.

I like the concept of blocking ads yet supporting worthy news outlets by donating money. I think Brave concept might work if people start spending money and when that money goes to worthy news outlets like BBC,WSJ,NYT,Guardian etc... Hoping for a better web

I am also using Brave and RescueTime, however some sites are still not supported very well on Brave. May be we need to report it as a bug to both Brave and RescueTime.