There are a lot of people who have been key, at least in hindsight, to my development.

I haven't really thought about populating this topic, but at a glance..

Dead ∞

See On the death of software, and it's programmers

• Cynbe ru Taren (Jeffrey Prothero), who I know from Mythryl.

• Karen Kenworthy, was what made me really think about this topic.

Alive ∞

• Maybe I'll be able to add to this list..

• Jordan B. Peterson

Probably ∞

• Eric S. Raymond

• Richard Stallman

Ideas ∞

I haven't spent much time, as of this writing, thinking about what things have really influenced me.

There are ideas which have been and are important.

• The Internet Archive Wayback Machine
• Compiled Website

• Programming

  • sh and scripting languages on Linux.
  • Ruby
• Linux and Open source / Free software
• Oldschool computer topics.
• The Commodore 64
• My experiences with Hardware

• My experiences with Software, and taking notes with the hopes of one day fixing them.

  • I'm sure there are many notable ones, but I'd have to do a lot of depressing soul-searching to remember them.
• DOS and 4DOS

• BBS'