Notes on Postmodern Programming is a fun, quirky paper. The comments on where metaphors come from is interesting.
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On the early metaphors that drove the original development of Unix: https://zge.us.to/txt/unix-harmful.html
(Lots of typewriter influence, and amazingly the first versions did not have a notion of pipes!)
Great talk by Bozhidar on the evolution of Clojure tooling in Emacs: https://youtu.be/4X-1fJm25Ww
(covers an impressive range of features, explores the tooling landscape and has some entertaining Emacs metaphors!)
The problematic culture of "Worse is Better" http://t.co/wRgsNhQNyR fantastic thoughtful article and great metaphors for skill development