Who do you consider the best programmers / computer scientists of today? Or, in other words, if you are familiar with Coders At Work [1], what names would you suggest for a new edition of the book?
I'm a big fan of awesome curated lists (GitHub) repos. In fact, if you check out https://github.com/trending every once in awhile you'll come across some pretty interesting/fun markdown initiatives of just developers curating information/knowledge e.g. https://github.com/wesbos/awesome-uses; at first glance it looks like a curated cool kids club, but man I wish we knew more about our heros (pr0gr4mm1ng g0ds) responsible for building X,Y,Z running all across the internet; most of them aren't social butterflies and care not to share this sort of stuff. They're interested in building their brand or educating others cause they're too busy hacking on stuff. You gotta take them out of their element and Terry Gross their ass. I'd love so much if people smarter than me would once in awhile stream anything, anywhere! Seeing their work-flow streamed and approach to doing work, solving problems etc. is just too good to pass up.
Peter Seibel is writing a book "Coders at Work" where he is interviewing a bunch of well known programmers. The comment section is open for people to suggest who to interview and what to ask etc.
[1] http://www.codersatwork.com/