I’ve heard people mention curl and imagemagick. Any others that you know about?

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    Werner Koch, the guy who created, and who has maintained for 25 years now, pretty much all by himself, GnuPG, the modern email encryption replacement for PGP.

    Just the other day, I realized I actually live just a few kms away from the guy, here in Germany … very tempted to reach out to him someday and actually buy him an actual coffee.

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    Sci-Hub anyone?

    Alexandra Elbakyan manages this truly awesome source of scientific papers completely on her own. She got sued twice and lost, had to change the URL multiple times due to takedowns and only gets along by donations.

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      It is a crime to humanity to lock knowledge behind a huge paywall. She does God’s work.

      And it’s not like the actual scientists/academics support knowledge being locked away either, or profit from it.

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    cURL was one of these for a while (according to my limited understanding)

    It was made in the 90s and it didn’t get commercial support until a few years ago.

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    The core-js library is used by 1000s of top websites and is maintained by one guy
    https://github.com/zloirock/core-js

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    Left pad https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/rage-quit-coder-unpublished-17-lines-of-javascript-and-broke-the-internet/

    Had GPT summarize what happened.

    The “left pad” incident refers to a controversy that arose in 2016 when a developer named Azer Koçulu removed his JavaScript package called “left-pad” from the NPM (Node Package Manager) registry. This caused a ripple effect, breaking numerous projects that relied on this package and highlighting the potential risks of relying on external dependencies. The incident sparked a debate about the stability and trustworthiness of the open-source ecosystem and led to discussions about best practices for managing dependencies in software development.

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    Basically every Windows sysadmin is indebted to Mark Russinovich and SysInternals. Fortunetly, PowerToys has come a long way because I’m pretty sure sysinternals haven’t been updated since Windows XP.

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      Mark Russinovich now works for Microsoft and they own Sysinternals. Also the tools get updated quite regularly.

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        “Mark works for MS” is a massive understatement. He’s CTO of Azure now.

        And speaking of Sysinternals, arguably the most exciting update was when ProcessExplorer got a dark mode late last year :)