This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot but haven’t written about in an article or blog post yet. It’s truly a unique time to be alive as a person who writes software. Many giants in the field of computer science are still alive. Actively programming.
And You Can interact with them!
Programmers like:
Andrew Tridell Link Link
Creator of Samba and rsync.
Linus Torvalds Link Link
Creator of Linux and Git.
John Carmack tweeted the link
Game developer behind Doom, Quake and CTO of Oculus Rift (now Meta Quest)
Chris Laettner tweeted the link
Creator of the Swift programming language.
Miguel de Icaza Tweet Link Link
Creator of Midnight Commander and the Mono C# runtime.
Fabrice Ballard Link Link
The mastermind behind Qemu, FFmpeg, QuickJS, and more.
mike pal link
Creator of Luazit.
Take the opportunity to send an email or tweet to one of them. This can change your life.
And if you don’t (yet) dare to write any of the above in English, try writing in Swedish with one of the following lesser known but experienced and friendly programmers:
Peter Schuler Link Link
Co-creator of Twitter/X’s Database Manhattan, longtime Java/C++-programmer.
emil tulstedt link
Friendly Python and Go Programmer
Carl Ost Wilkens Link Link
Rusty Game and Imaging Programmer
Per Lundberg link link
Versatile programmer and my brother, he is the reason I got into coding.
lova widmark link link
C++ Programmer in Assembler, Anti-Cheat and Game Development
If you want to lower the barrier even further, you can also get started by sending me an email to johannsel at 46elks dot com. Tell me which of the above programmers or other things inspire you. I will try to give you a useful pointer.
Life and work are not meant to be spent in isolation.
// Johannes "jojo" Ridderstedt
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