To understand how one developer's rage-quit from a JavaScript code registry could suddenly cause all sorts of things across the Internet to begin to fail, you need to understand the strange nature ...

If you want a gentle introduction, check out [mgechev’s] language that resides in 25 lines of Javascript. ... With the comments — and they are welcome — it is more like 140 lines of code.

In campaign to promote computer programming, the president tells kids: "Don't just consume, create." Later, at a White House-hosted event, he even learns to write a few lines of code himself.