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:
- Ryan Carniato
- Ryan Dahl
- Andy Matuschak
- Reginald Braithwaite
- Rich Hickey
- Nathan Schneider
- Addy Osmani
- Evan Czaplicki
- Gary Bernhardt
- Eli Pariser and New_ Public
- Max Krieger
- Maggie Appleton
- Seth Frey
- Divya Siddarth and pluriverse.world
- John Carmack
- SvelteKit
- Andrew Clark
- my coworker Bilal Aijazi
- Marshall McLuhan
- Jane Im and consentful.systems
- Steve Klabnik
- Evan You
- Joshua Tan
- Erin Shepherd
- my coworker Grant Farwell
- James Long
- Marijn Haverbeke
- Nicky Case
- Gabe Newell
- Charlie Gerard
- pngwn
- Rich Harris
- Bret Victor
- Yoshiki Schmitz
- DWeb
- my coworker Mario Gutierrez
- Amy Zhang
- Ted Nelson
- swyx
- Pia Mancini
- Alex Russell
- Ariadne Conill
- Douglas Engelbart
- Christopher Alexander
- Amelia Wattenberger
- Open Collective
- socialhub.activitypub.rocks
- Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
- the Matrix protocol
- Future of Coding community
- David Nolen
- Luke Edwards
- Kate Compton
- Jason Yuan
- Sid Meier
- PolicyKit
- Jeremy Ashkenas
- Tom Dale
- the fediverse and ActivityPub and ActivityStreams
- Jonathan Blow
- Alan Kay
- toolsforthought.rocks
- Shauna Gordon-McKeon
- TJ Holowaychuk
- Douglas Crockford
- substack
- Yehuda Katz
- Tim Berners-Lee
- my coworker Hamilton Reed
- Shagun Jhaver
- Center for Humane Technology
- Ethan Zuckerman
- Alexander Obenauer
- Dan Abramov
- Loomio
- consentfultech.io
- Leo Horie
- CommunityRule
- Geoffrey Litt
- Andrew Kelley
- platform.coop
- Darius Kazemi
- Will Wright
- Mark Brown and Game Maker's Toolkit
- Christine Lemmer-Webber and spritely.institute
- Jenova Chen
- Elinor Ostrom
- metagov.org
- John Resig
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