I&#x27;m in love with Paul Ford&#x27;s writing about technology. His What Is Code? cover story for Business Week was amazing: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2015-paul-ford-what-is-code&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;graphics&#x2F;2015-paul-ford-what-is-cod...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9698870" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9698870</a><p>This is just a short piece, but I think it is so interesting to try to introduce non-technical readers to some of the knotty problems that everyone on HN takes for granted. And, the fact that the world&#x27;s largest graph database (Facebook&#x27;s) is built on top of a SQL database really is ironic, and it&#x27;s great that he succeeds at explaining all the concepts well enough to get that across.<p>For dinosaurs like myself who still use an RSS reader (I&#x27;m a big fan of Inoreader), here is a full-text feed of his New Republic writing, made with Feedity and Five Filters: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftr.fivefilters.org&#x2F;makefulltextfeed.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffeedity.com%2Fnewrepublic-com%2FVFRWVFJa.rss&amp;max=3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ftr.fivefilters.org&#x2F;makefulltextfeed.php?url=https%3A...</a>