Is there a "tech blogger of the year" category somewhere so we can nominate this guy? Every single one of his posts is epic. The peri-relational metaphor for shell command composition, this one, and every one before should be required reading.
These recent posts are part of the lecture notes for my "Scripting Language Design and Implementation" course.
There are slides that go along with some of them:
http://matt.might.net/teaching/scripting-languages/spring-20...
I prefer spartan slides, so I'm not sure how useful they are without me presenting them.
But, I'll throw them out there since there are a few nuggets in them that are not in the posts.
There are also slides for non-existent posts (e.g. bash), because I don't always have time to transcribe my notes into a blog post.
What every CS major should know (http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/)
12 resolutions for programmers (http://matt.might.net/articles/programmers-resolutions/)
And article needs a date before any award is bestowed.