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below are a list of engineering **characters**. they're characters in the sense
that they've intrigued, inspired, or otherwise stuck out to me, and generally,
are people i have never met.
- [philip guo] - guo's research on human computer
interaction, and and how we learn to use technology is fascinating, and he
has made some neat tools around learning different software related things -
a bunch for [python]. also his lectures just make him seem like a really
nice smart humble guy.
- [drew devault] - drew's commitment to FOSS (free
and open source software) is admirable, and sometimes intimidating. he
created [sourcehut], of which i am a contributor and proudly
paying supporter. i host this [memex] on sourcehut, as well as pretty much
all my other code.
- [devine lu linvega] - devine is a curious soul who
inspires me like few others. i am thankful to have met him on the internet
after getting interested in his project orca. for orca, i made a
tutorial/sandbox site [learn-orca] after becoming intrigued. later, i did
the same for one of his uxn project - [learn-uxn]. the technology and
philosophy that accompany his online persona are worth checking out - also
see [solarpunk] and [permacomputing].
- [dan luu] - i enjoy his thoughts on technology, computer
science, industry, learning, and writing. more generally though reading dan's
post is always fun, and he is humble and funny.
- [julia evans] - i love julias comics. i learn something
every time i read them as well! julia reminds me to stay curious and keep
learning and also not be intimidated by things that feel insurmountable.
reading some of her zines reminds me that troubleshooting and debugging and
investing in tooling around that is time well spent.
- [andrew kelley] - andrew kelley is creating the zig
language. if you get a chance to watch some of his videos on how and why zig
is the way it is, its inspiring to see such someone setting their sights on
longevity, security, maintainability, and also being capable and dedicated
enough to make it happen. i haven't learned zig yet but the more i read/watch
from andrew, i feel like its just a matter of time until i at least try to on
some level.
- [richard littauer] - richard littauer is great -
and one of the few people i know who studied computational linguistics
_before_ moving into software and engineering. his work is wide ranging and
worth exploring - i appreciate reading about his journey into open source and
his work with [open source collective]
- [xe iaso] - the depth of xe's blog posts into somewhat
obscure and interesting parts of technology is remarkable. i also appreciate
their honesty and ability to be self aware, as well as candidness around
their career and plurality.
- [amos wenger] - rust focused didactic long form
conversational blog posts. these take a long time to read but they're
incredibly fun to go through. i learn something interesting everytime i read
amos's posts and particularly enjoyed his video on
[how he learned to love build systems]
- [justine tunney] - justine's
projects are incredibly inspiring to me. many of them deal with very low
level application binary interfaces in unixes. i highly recommend looking
through her projects: https://justine.lol/ - some of the more interesting
ones to me include [redbean], a single file web server,
[cosmopolitican libc] - an alternative
libc, and [αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε] - an
absolutely mind blowing hack to make executables work on many different
operating systems with the same source code by (ab)using the linux ABI and
quirks of the thompson shell.
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