Steve Yegge

Steve Yegge is a programmer and blogger who is known for writing about programming languages, productivity and software culture through his "Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants" site, followed by "Stevey's Blog Rants." He stopped blogging about programming topics in 2011. Yegge received a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Washington and has two decades of industry experience covering embedded operating systems, scalable e-commerce systems, applications for mobile devices, and software productivity tools. He has worked for Amazon.com and Google.

In 2007, Yegge was a speaker at the UIUC 13th annual reflections❘projections Conference. In May 2008, Yegge presented a talk on dynamic languages at Stanford University. In July 2007, Yegge was a presenter at OSCON 2007, presenting a keynote speech on "How to Ignore Marketing and Become Irrelevant in Two Easy Steps".

Yegge advocates server-side JavaScript for development. After failing to convince Google to adopt Ruby on Rails, he ported Rails to JavaScript, creating the "Rhino on Rails" project. In 2008, Yegge was interviewed for the Google Code Blog and discussed the "Rhino on Rails" project. His work on "Rhino on Rails" has inspired at least one open-source clone, LatteJS.

Yegge's blog has received considerable attention, particularly his series of posts on hiring and interviewing.

In addition to his posts on hiring and interviewing, Yegge's Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp post about the Lisp programming language has been widely discussed and cited.

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