Programmer Humor

Christopher's Universal Request Library

Other major examples include cURL (Daniel Stenberg) and SQLite (D. Richard Hipp)

While those are the main developers neither is alone in maintaining their respective software.

When I last talked to Richard he had company to work on SQLite. It was like four people.

SQLite is still deployed on everything, everywhere. You browser. Your phone. Macs. Half of Linux machine. Your airplane. It's super impressive.

Probably gonna get really bad once AI actors start combing the internet for exploits on a larger scale.

Not to downplay dmr's importance here because he quite literally is the father of modern computing, but without him we'd just have something else and perhaps it would've been a bit later. A different systems programming language and a different operating system everything else is modeled after. High-level programming languages weren't a new concept when he wrote C. Before B they already had Fortran. Funny to call any of those High-level in 2026, but that's the whole importance of C, isn't it? It made writing complex systems easy compared to assembly languages or even fortran.

I'm not gonna bother doing a writeup about Jobs, we all here know he made precisely Jack shit.

Too bad all the tech billionaires profit from Ronald's work while he does it for free.

Also extremely stable.

By gods, the interactive one is great!

So a perfect open source name then.

Runk that hog, swedish boy.

They're villains created by transphobes?

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Or more things will happen like the Bhopal disaster where a chemical plant, over a decade or so, laid off or failed to replace everyone who knew what their carefully designed multi-layered safety systems did. When those systems aged and needed maintenance, the remaining production people took them out one by one. Then 500,000 people were gassed with cyanide. 2,200 immediate deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

Social collapse isn't an exciting day in your life, it's a broad trend historians will puzzle over centuries later. Look at the bronze age collapse for an example.

society will drag on generations after any kind of societal collapse.

Reminds me of the Imperium in Warhammer 40k how a lot of the tech they use is barely understood or some of it is not understood at all. Like the adeptus mechanicus believe in the Omnissiah (me too) and a lot of what they do is purely ritualistic.

But lots of those rituals are just stuff like turning something on in the right order. Or other mundane things that have become an arcane ritual after thousands of years that need doing for a thing to work right but nobody remembers why it needs to be done or how the thing works. Just that these are things you must do to please the machine spirits and make whatever random thing work right.

Honestly there is enough complexity in enough tech nowadays that I'm sure almost all of us are doing something similar in many areas of our life. Like I would struggle to explain how the Internet works or even how my television actually creates an image on itself. Maybe a better example would be cars, a lot of people use them but don't know anything about necessary maintenance or basic principles of how they work.

>>> runk.count(2)

1

>>> runk.count(3)

3

>>> man runk