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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..
See also:
Alive ∞
- Maybe I'll be able to add to this list..
- Since before he became wildly popular.
- Since before he became wildly popular.
Probably ∞
- I don't even know how to describe why.
- Somebody has to be "that guy".
Dead ∞
See On the death of software, and it's programmers and
- Not deceased, but abandoned; something like exercising the right to be forgotten.
- See also Ruby
Cynbe ru Taren (Jeffrey Prothero)
- .. who I know from Mythryl.
- I deeply regret that I never grew capable enough with the language, or helped with the project, and I abandoned the idea of becoming a programmer. Before learning he was ill, I was honestly thinking of grovelling to have him mentor me.
- I did, however, learn from both his example and conversations on textual communication. Keeping these in mind has changed the way I think and write.
Karen Kenworthy
- .. her death is what made made me really think about this topic. See On the death of software, and it's programmers
- See /tag/karen-kenworthy
Important ideas ∞
I have a bit of a diary elsewhere, which I will port into this list one day.
- Computers
- I tinkered a whole lot.
- .. and scripting in 4DOS
- BBS'
- Being gifted my first alias.
- Archivism
- Roleplaying
- Microsoft Works 3.0 for DOS
Hating Microsoft.
- This had a significant ideological influence.
My experiences with Software
- .. and taking notes with the hopes of one day fixing them.
- I'm sure there are many notable programs, but I'd have to do a lot of depressing soul-searching to remember them.
- Going toward my own Windows "3.12" and beginning a lot of tinkering with later versions of Windows.
- My experiences with Hardware
- The Nike of Samothrace
The Commodore 64
- I abandoned my DOS computer altogether and delved wholly into the c64 when it had already been fading from general hobbyist interest for years.
- Lucid dreaming
- Sleep paralysis
- Philosophy and discussion as primary entertainment.
Oldschool computer topics.
- Especially Oldschool demos and Oldschool music.
- Peer-to-peer, Lopster (etc) and Music
- Thought-provoking movies.
- Remote-Anything
Linux and Open source / Free software
Wikis and eventually MediaWiki
- I wrote three thousand articles in three months.
- Deep influence in a couple of major wiki projects.
I broke Google.
- nofollow was for people like me.
- Genius as an intent.
- Hackers.
- Intelligence as a general topic, and paired with Archivism.
- Projects as a concept.
sh and scripting languages on Linux.
- Zsh in particular
- my many shell scripts.
- Quiet computing
- Portable computing
- Firefox
- How To Become A Hacker
- The Manager FAQ, by Peter Seebach
- Ruby in particular, and my later Ruby mentoring.
- I would later make a willed decision to abandon trying to learn to program.
Documentation as an interest I had been holding in mind for some time.
- If you can't program it, document it.
- I was particularly interested in the early atheist community.
- Though I got into it primarily to learn Lua, I stayed for the raiding.
- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
Direct and significant involvement with a few Linux distributions.
- The only one I let myself be recognized for is Unity Linux.
- Compiled Website
- The Internet Archive Wayback Machine
- Though I didn't do much programming in Mythryl, my experiences with it and its progenitor Cynbe forever informs the way I look at the alignment of documentation and presentation of information.
- Writing
Games > Path of Exile - (2013 game)
- .. its developers show the right way to make a game, interact with its players and maintain a strong moral philosophy.
- Writing
- Babun, briefly Cygwin and then directly into VirtualBox.
2020-07-31 - last updated
I updated it a little.
I forgot to add _why