Okay so I’m doing this. Every two weeks, I write down what I learned. The world ships an update, I read the patch notes. That’s the deal. Context: I’m a year and a half into my first real job, writing enterprise Java at a big IT-services firm in Hyderabad — change requests and release coordination by day, Hacker News way too late at night. This week HN has been heavy — the community is grieving Aaron Swartz, and I’ve spent hours reading about everything he built. I never knew one person could touch RSS, Reddit, AND Markdown. ...