Wasn't Git written by Linus?
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#22Another World http://anotherworld.fr/anotherworld_uk/another_world.htm
The author, Eric Chahi, did the design, art, code and some sound effects. Jean-François Freitas did the music and sound effects.
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#23Wasn't Git written by Linus?
The initial version was. Linus however handed over the maintainer role very early on after the initial release and hasn't had much to with the active development of git for years.
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#24Braid, the game.
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#25Redis I would say, by Salvatore Sanfilippo (https://github.com/antirez)
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#26Stardew Valley
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#27Calibre developed by Kovid Goyal it's a one stop shop for eBook management. His reply to the issue "Python 2 is retiring in thirty months. Calibre needs to convert to Python 3." was "No, it doesn't. I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself. Far less work than migrating the entire calibre codebase. status wontfix" [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1714107
You had me until the anecdote. I understand the sentiment and intent of what’s being said, but as a security professional it just paints themselves, their applications, and their user base as targets. Knowing it’s a won’t fix means it’s also easier to sell exploits if not disclosing as it’s clear he doesn’t intend to upgrade to a maintained and supported version of Python, so it should work for longer than most explo…
Calibre has a bad history with security already - for example https://lwn.net/Articles/464824/
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#28Calibre developed by Kovid Goyal it's a one stop shop for eBook management. His reply to the issue "Python 2 is retiring in thirty months. Calibre needs to convert to Python 3." was "No, it doesn't. I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself. Far less work than migrating the entire calibre codebase. status wontfix" [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1714107
His name must have been really unfortunate at the start of the pandemic…
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#291) Chris Sawyer wrote Transport Tycoon and RollerCoaster Tycoon in assembly. 2) SerenetyOS started off as a one man project by Andreas Kling.
1st was exactly what I thought of. One or the other would have been monumental, never mind both!
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#30I've been amazed almost every single day since I installed it few months ago by how useful and well done Dato on macOS is.
It fixes one of my main issue with macOS, its inability to show a calendar by clicking on the day in status bar, and adds tons of great feature without feeling bloaty. Great great job. Thank you Sindre Sorhus for making my life easier !