What Are You Thankful For?
Key Takeaways
- Open-source ecosystem
- Supportive online communities
- Technology's impact on society
Key Takeaways
Okay here come the downvotes. So be it.
I am thankful that for the last 30-odd years I could always get hot, drinkable water just by opening a tap. I never even questioned it because it was so reliable.
Bridging dissimilar message busses with data-driven Lua scripts. Creating a Jenkins SCM plugin that exposes the sources packages of a Debian repository (complete with binary dependency tracking) as an organization folder to turn it into a package builder. Writing a toolchain in Python that takes OpenAPI documents as an abstract syntax tree and run passes on it to parse, validate, aggregate, transform and format it for various needs (such as generating C++ code for data models, dataframe bindings and so on). Delinking programs back into object files and creating Frankenstein monsters from salvaged pieces,and somehow landing a poster presentation at ACM CCS 2025 as a hobbyist (this one outside of office hours, but it still trigger brain meltdowns when I talk about it). And so many, many more sins.
I honestly don't know how they are putting up with the incarnation of chaos that is me.
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