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Probably this JavaScript function I posted on my blog in 2003 https://simonwillison.net/2003/Mar/25/getElementsBySelector/
Wow, 10 years before document.querySelectorAll()!
querySelectorAll wouldn't ever appear without jQuery which got its idea from Simon's idea.
And even then querySelectorAll was so poorly implemented that it didn't even have any useful helper methods.
Eventually Nostalrius forked it, slapped marketing and a website on it, became huge and those guys got to visit Blizzard Entertainment, in the end leading to Blizzard finally giving in an providing World of Warcaft Classic as a service.
Cost me tons of money to keep the project running because we were constantly under attacks from god knows who and in the end burned me out after a decade of doing this.
To this day private servers are using it, and probably six figures of people play on those.
It syncs their various ecommerce channels into a single Google Sheets. I wrote over two weeks during the early days of lockdowns because they had to pivot to ecommerce fast.
I have been making it more efficient since but it is a lot of spaghetti code.
It has saved the business about 20,000 hours.
Built MaNGOS in 2004/2005 with a bunch of other people as the first Open Source World of Warcaft server. Over the years it was the biggest project on Github for a while, even trumping projects like Ruby on Rails in forks and at some point most if not all private servers were using it. Eventually Nostalrius forked it, slapped marketing and a website on it, became huge and those guys got to visit Blizzard Entertainment…
Sorry it sucked so much out of you.
I got over a week of excited tinkering and fun out of it. Thank you for starting the project!
Built MaNGOS in 2004/2005 with a bunch of other people as the first Open Source World of Warcaft server. Over the years it was the biggest project on Github for a while, even trumping projects like Ruby on Rails in forks and at some point most if not all private servers were using it. Eventually Nostalrius forked it, slapped marketing and a website on it, became huge and those guys got to visit Blizzard Entertainment…
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How did you find all these product market fits? Have you made more than a typical SWE?
It was actually a wandering hyperactive/ADHD mind that often said "why isn't there one" and follows through doggedly to the very end. It is one of those traits where a mind clicks and said "this is it and how" and surprisingly gets into the most illusive hyperfocus/high-energy mode (without using any drug). Slow-path network processing (arguably me) was commercially made in Ascom Timeplex in 1982 and someone else lea…
I took couple years off coding to build a Kenyan infrastructure engineering firm - we're still going although I've started programming again. The biggest thing we've done is 6.7km of a mountain / lakeside ring road in Homa Bay on Lake Victoria (Kodula village section specifically, the work is visible on satellite). We're actually not completely done with it but watching the community growth from having the paved road…
This: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Farmer%27s_Market . Helped a few thousand people get their meds before we all got arrested. No regrets.
Better link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer's_Market
In an MA program in biblical studies, I realized that the best way to understand what words mean in context is to see how they're used in similar contexts. To do that, you've got to be able to find similar contexts. I didn't like the solutions available from the major software vendors, but it turns out there's a whole bunch of tagged data that's openly licensed. So I built a webapp that has all the search functionali…
See it in action to compare translations of Enchiridion (https://enchiridion.tasuki.org/) or Tao Te Ching (https://ttc.tasuki.org/).
The project is at https://github.com/tasuki/side-by-side, it is backendless: just drop in some markdown files, and serve it as a static website.