After reading Fogus’ post The best things in 2010, I decided to do one of my own.

Great blog posts read:

So many that I started the weekly Information Overload.

Most viewed blog posts by me:

• 30 free programming eBooks
• Review: Create Your Own Programming Language
• Hey dude, where’s our future?
• Clojure: Deriving the Y Combinator in 7 Stolen Steps
• Rewiring my brain: APL and J

Favorite technical books discovered (and read):

• “Programming in Haskell” by Graham Hutton
• “Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World” by Joe Armstrong
• “The Little Schemer” by Daniel P. Friedman
• “Refactoring Ruby” by Jay Fields

“Land of Lisp” by Conrad Barski and “The Joy of Clojure” by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser should also be on this list, but I haven’t finished them yet.

Favorite non-technical books read:

• “House of Leaves” by Mark Z. Danielewski
• “Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert” by Sasa Stanisic
• “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak
• “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” by Salman Rushdie

Number of books read:
57

Number of books written:
Still none :-(

Favorite TV series about zombies:
The Walking Dead

Favorite programming languages:
Ruby, Clojure, Erlang, Common Lisp, Haskell, J

Programming languages used for projects both professional and not:
Ruby, Clojure, Bash, Python, JavaScript, Scheme, Haskell, SQL

Cool new technology:

• Kindle 3
• Instapaper
• Dropbox

Lifestyle changes:

• Stopped smoking
• Started training Wing Chun

Plans for 2011:

• More Haskell
• More Erlang
• More Common Lisp
• Release more open source code
• Reduce size of unread book pile
• More sports