He was also inspired to create UseTheSource, a Hacker News-like repository for other examples of beautiful code.
If you're familiar with Daily WTF, a website that showcases egregious malfeasances in information technology, UseTheSource is designed to be the opposite of that. Rather than being a Hacker News-type catch-all site for news, blog posts, commentary, opinion, and oh yeah, a bit of code now and then, UseTheSource is intended to let users post bits of code and let the community decide which examples are truly noteworthy.
UseTheSource employs a Reddit/Digg/Hacker News system of upvotes to allow the community to voice their approval of certain posts. And of course, users are allowed and encouraged to comment on posts. All in all, the system allows for a laser-like focus on a topic of greatest importance to programmers: how to find and emulate really great code.
One feature we'd love to see is a search option; filtering posts by language, as others have mentioned wanting to see, is another. If sorting by language "takes off," Graham-Cummings said he may make a view-by-language option.
In some ways, the site is similar to StackOverflow, but it goes beyond the Q&A format and isn't designed for specific problem solving.
Graham-Cumming has a stack of job titles and professional descriptors to his name; he's VP of Engineering at Causata and the founder of Electric Cloud. He also authored The Geek Atlas, which was published by O'Reilly.