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My most impactful project was definitely NoCoin [0], the first web miner blocker. Back when Monero miners started appearing and sneakily mining on pages, like The Pirate Bay for example, I decided to throw together a browser extension that would simply block requests to the resources that hosted these mining scripts. The project was in no way a technical achievement, it was simply intercepting requests and blocking t…
I implemented various pieces of flight software for the Cargo Dragon space capsule, and to a lesser extent the Falcon 9 rocket. I got to be on a mission control shift for the C2 mission that first berthed with the International Space Station. Some of the software framework I wrote back then ended up getting used in Starlink despite having never worked on it directly, so I can say I have code orbiting the Earth on sev…
Created an account for this: would you be willing to share a bit more details about the autonomous aircraft carrier? Is an area I am extremely interested in. Perhaps a link? Many thanks!
Not sure if it counts as building something concrete (I have been programming commercially for ~20 years so I'm pretty sure there's something if I dig) but does Stack Overflow impact count? I have over 6,000 answers posted and a calculated reach/impact of over 50 million people. That sometimes makes me smile and feel that I have contributed something.
What languages? I might have used some of your code lol
it aggregates contractor rates and has some job listings. the main focus is the rates, but attempting to provide ancillary value to people who visit the site.
Greybeard with 26 years in the industry. Sorted in decreasing order of impact: [1] Back in 2006, created a web scraper with .Net framework and C# that helped my wife run a home-based scraping business for 2 years. There were no tools / libraries / frameworks for spidering / scraping back then - or at least I wasnt aware of them. Helped her have a replacement income since she had quit her job for maternity. She of cou…
A nodejs closed caption converter. I’m not a developer but can get along just fine for most of my projects. Funniest part was, I open sourced it. Then a few years and an acquisition later the parent company tried to sell us a tool for converting caption files based off my own code. https://github.com/jasonrojas/node-captions
How did you feel about that from a licensing perspective? Not trying to bait a copyleft vs permissive argument, I'm genuinely interested.
A nodejs closed caption converter. I’m not a developer but can get along just fine for most of my projects. Funniest part was, I open sourced it. Then a few years and an acquisition later the parent company tried to sell us a tool for converting caption files based off my own code. https://github.com/jasonrojas/node-captions
I'd love to hear more details about how that interaction went!
While the site has had its ups and downs, and changes of ownership, it is usually the first validating reference for any computer game entry on wikipedia (which it pre-dates by nearly two years).