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engineering characters

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.

Gemini Links:

index and recent changes

directory of all pages

python

memex

learn-orca

learn-uxn

solarpunk

permacomputing

Web Links:

philip guo

drew devault

sourcehut

devine lu linvega

dan luu

julia evans

andrew kelley

richard littauer

open source collective

xe iaso

amos wenger

how he learned to love build systems

justine tunney

redbean

cosmopolitican libc

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