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I didn't know this person before:

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/category/emacs/

A banking CTO who contributes a lot in emacs.

I really like the image editing he did. Thank you for posting this. Made my day.




I imagine a director-level tech executive at a bank or other slow-moving industry to fit one of two possible archetypes:

1. A suit-wearing person that's so far removed from technology he's just a glorified manager hunt-and-pecking in Outlook all day.

2. A suit-wearing person with a permanent PuTTY window connected to the ageing AS-400 system still running in the basement.



God, I miss that show. I completely forgot about Tyrell, I was mostly thinking of actual UNIX greybeards disguised as banking CTOs I've met earlier in my career :)


Putty? You mean iAccess!


He's the author of Gnus. The news/email reader. It's a little crazy but a huge piece of work. Related to this was http://gmane.io/ which is a mailing list to NNTP gateway (so that they can be read using Gnus).


He wrote the Gnus news reader. Many years ago I found a bug in it on a Friday morning, I searched around and found out how to report it to him, by the afternoon of the same day he had notified me of a work around!


He is Programmerer Ingebrigtsen.




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