It amazes me how entertaining Raymond's writing on most mundane aspects of computing often is.

For as much flack Microsoft gets today, they have some of the best people writing about low-level computing. James Mickens writings managed to make me literally laugh-out-loud on these subjects. Chen described him best as "the funniest man in Microsoft Research" ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20131224-00/?p=22... )