An ongoing attempt to credit my influences
Giving proper credit to all of one's influences is an impossible task and embarrassingly biased but why not try? Maybe these lists could help you discover new and interesting people and things. I am definitely forgetting people to whom I owe credit, so this is a living document. I'm also omitting entire categories of influence. (love you mom)
people, orgs, tech, etc:
- Nathan Schneider
- Elinor Ostrom
- Charlie Gerard
- metagov.org
- SvelteKit
- Shagun Jhaver
- CommunityRule
- Marijn Haverbeke
- Douglas Crockford
- Nicky Case
- substack
- Ted Nelson
- Jeremy Ashkenas
- Jenova Chen
- Dan Abramov
- Luke Edwards
- swyx
- Andy Matuschak
- Seth Frey
- Steve Klabnik
- Rich Harris
- Andrew Kelley
- Bret Victor
- Future of Coding community
- Alex Russell
- pngwn
- Rich Hickey
- Evan You
- Mark Brown and Game Maker's Toolkit
- Will Wright
- Joshua Tan
- Ryan Carniato
- Yoshiki Schmitz
- Maggie Appleton
- Gabe Newell
- Max Krieger
- Leo Horie
- Pia Mancini
- Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
- consentfultech.io
- Jonathan Blow
- Reginald Braithwaite
- Amy Zhang
- Darius Kazemi
- socialhub.activitypub.rocks
- Amelia Wattenberger
- Ryan Dahl
- Erin Shepherd
- Marshall McLuhan
- Gary Bernhardt
- Alexander Obenauer
- DWeb
- Jane Im and consentful.systems
- Evan Czaplicki
- Center for Humane Technology
- Yehuda Katz
- David Nolen
- John Resig
- Divya Siddarth
- James Long
- Kate Compton
- the Matrix protocol
- Loomio
- Douglas Engelbart
- the fediverse and ActivityPub and ActivityStreams
- TJ Holowaychuk
- toolsforthought.rocks
- PolicyKit
- Andrew Clark
- Tim Berners-Lee
- my coworker Hamilton Reed
- Addy Osmani
- platform.coop
- Christine Lemmer-Webber and spritely.institute
- Christopher Alexander
- my coworker Mario Gutierrez
- John Carmack
- Jason Yuan
- Tom Dale
- Sid Meier
- Alan Kay
- Open Collective
- my coworker Bilal Aijazi
- Geoffrey Litt
- Shauna Gordon-McKeon
programming languages:
(roughly reverse chronological order)
- Svelte
- TypeScript
- a little Elm and PureScript
- ClojureScript
- JSX and React/vdom
- DOM templating with Angular
- Rust
- Haskell
- JSON (post-lisp understanding)
- Clojure
- Lisp
- LiveScript
- Bash and Unix/Linux/GNU
- CoffeeScript
- DOM templating langs like Underscore.js/Jade with jQuery/Backbone
- JavaScript
- CSS
- C# with the discontinued game tools XNA
- Action Script 3 for Flash (whats flash) with Flixel and FlashPunk
- Python and pygame
- Excel and VBA
- a couple PHP-like scripting languages for games
- HTML (making silly things with friends in highschool)
- config files for games like .ini
- whatever DOS is