A recent Tweet by @ben got me thinking, there many people out there that have made massive contributions to code and computers in general. Without ...
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I can think of Steve Wozniak or Linus Torvalds. But my all times favorite is Alan Turing. A great man that invented computer and therefore IT. Saves millions of lives and then die alone reject by his own government (spoiler alert). Watch "The Imitation Game", not a 10/10 movie, but a great history lesson.
My first reaction is everything from these books:
I love coding history books. Here are some I'd recommend.
Ben Halpern
One less-known legend that comes to mind is the solo maintainer of
curl
, who has just been plugging away for about two decades.This is the sort of stuff solo maintainers get up to:
curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2011-10/0059...
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I recall @ben opining a while back that there should be a podcast dedicated to the open-source heroes who maintain projects for the betterment of the community. I would love to see that happen some day (and listen to it).
I'd love to have this form of podcast around. It would be really interesting to hear.