I'm sure many of you are familiar with Steve Yegge and his (Drunken) Blog Rants. He's a languages guru, opinionated about a lot of topics I care about, and had been at blogging for a long time; often silly, also poignant. After quite some time at Amazon, he's been at Google for a few years. His supposedly final series of posts, "The Programmer's View of the Universe", has not seen any attention since the third entry on May 18 2009: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/05/programmers-view-of-universe-part-3.html<p>Not only that, but the most recent approved comment was half a year ago and I haven't seen any murmurs or hints of Steve's online presence since then. So I'm starting to wonder: Where is Steve Yegge?<p>Has he gone stealth and started blogging anonymously? Is he being silent while on a skunkwork a la Building 49? Did he decide to finish his series in the form of a book? I don't know. I figure someone who works at Google or knows him personally might read this and know what's up with him though.<p>If he's gone stealth: I appreciate his writing and insights and would like to keep seeing fresh work from him. I'm willing not to share his identity/presence to protect him from trolling. At the very least, it would be nice to know he's alive and well! Please share what you know.
In his writting, Steve seemed painfully aware of the pass of time. Said things like... having only a handful more of 5 year blocks of life to invest wisely, or... working at Google because life's so short to waste at a day job that do not let you exploit your full potential. He is a smart guy, but somehow he seems concerned of being so far away from greatness.<p>My personal take is that he realized those who can, do; and the others just blog about it.
When he was on the Stack Overflow podcast a while back he said that he was going to be finished blogging shortly thereafter. That was about a year ago.