How a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug

grabyourmotherskeys, 8 months ago

I remember finding a bug in the Linux kernel re AMD processors a very, very long time ago. I documented and reported it and later saw the report in a changelog or something. Still riding high off that 25 years later (I think, it’s been a while).

QHC, 8 months ago

You should, sounds like you definitely contributed more to the benefit of human society than I ever have!

bjoern_tantau, 8 months ago

Reminds me of the small feature I did for PHP 8.1. Felt really good to see a whole article about that in a more or less official preview post.

Now I wonder what the girl is doing who was the youngest Linux kernel contributor because she saw “a sad little s” not being underlined in the Readme.

Candybar121, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Years ago some guy made a pokemon mod called Uncensored Edition with 18+ jokes that eventually was discontinued / taken down, but if you look at the credits I’m like the 3rd person listed. Yep, that’s me alright. You’re probably wondering how I got here.

crawley, 8 months ago

this feels relevant

superduperenigma, 8 months ago

Reminds me of another good joke:

I got a job at Comcast and completed training so I could fix my own cable because it was faster than being on hold with customer service.

eager_eagle, 8 months ago

“I’m leaving this company in a better state than I’ve found it. Don’t make me apply for this position again!”