Jimmy Miller

I was like, I'm going to join the cool group doing open source. And they had some Python code that looked straight up like C Sharp code. And I made a PR to fix their indention, and they got really mad at me. They're using tabs instead of spaces. You know, it's Python, like four spaces. And yeah, no, it did not go well.

I was like, I'm going to join the cool group doing open source. And they had some Python code that looked straight up like C Sharp code. And I made a PR to fix their indention, and they got really mad at me. They're using tabs instead of spaces. You know, it's Python, like four spaces. And yeah, no, it did not go well.

But yeah, like I think, you know, for me, a lot of this was just like I didn't know anything about like the the broader tech ecosystem. Like I, I never even realized that I could do this as a job. Like growing up, I just kind of learned programming on a whim and had no idea that people, the stuff I was doing was what people actually did.

But yeah, like I think, you know, for me, a lot of this was just like I didn't know anything about like the the broader tech ecosystem. Like I, I never even realized that I could do this as a job. Like growing up, I just kind of learned programming on a whim and had no idea that people, the stuff I was doing was what people actually did.

Yeah. Uh, The way I got into programming was a bit weird. I grew up relatively poor, not always having food on the table poor, but I still have a roof over my head, still electricity, the US poor. Obviously, there's people who have it much worse in the world, but We did have a computer, luckily.

Yeah. Uh, The way I got into programming was a bit weird. I grew up relatively poor, not always having food on the table poor, but I still have a roof over my head, still electricity, the US poor. Obviously, there's people who have it much worse in the world, but We did have a computer, luckily.

We were gifted a computer from some family friends, but my brother would always hog it, my older brother. And so one day he decided that I got my own computer because he found one by the trash with mud on it. It was this old Dell with Windows ME on it. And he just gave it to me and said, this is your computer now. This is the one you have to use. It didn't work.

We were gifted a computer from some family friends, but my brother would always hog it, my older brother. And so one day he decided that I got my own computer because he found one by the trash with mud on it. It was this old Dell with Windows ME on it. And he just gave it to me and said, this is your computer now. This is the one you have to use. It didn't work.

I didn't know the password for Windows ME. But luckily, I had a friend whose dad was a system admin. And he had mentioned Linux to me one time. And so I got Ubuntu running on it. And I was 12, had no idea what I was doing, just burning CDs, trying to get some software to work on it. I ended up getting Ubuntu on it. I ended up getting wireless card drivers working for it.

I didn't know the password for Windows ME. But luckily, I had a friend whose dad was a system admin. And he had mentioned Linux to me one time. And so I got Ubuntu running on it. And I was 12, had no idea what I was doing, just burning CDs, trying to get some software to work on it. I ended up getting Ubuntu on it. I ended up getting wireless card drivers working for it.

Yeah. In Diswrapper was this like taking Windows... It didn't have a wireless card. I thought, okay, I can buy this and install it and it'll just work. But In Diswrapper was this way of like wrapping Windows wireless drivers and trying to make them work for Linux. And I now know what I did was I compiled from source In Diswrapper by burning CDs to get the dependency tree.

Yeah. In Diswrapper was this like taking Windows... It didn't have a wireless card. I thought, okay, I can buy this and install it and it'll just work. But In Diswrapper was this way of like wrapping Windows wireless drivers and trying to make them work for Linux. And I now know what I did was I compiled from source In Diswrapper by burning CDs to get the dependency tree.

It was the only way I had to transfer data from the computer to... between computers and so i like burned these cds and compiled from source indiswrapper and i got it working and that was when i was just hooked like this was so exciting that i got my own computer working by doing a bunch of magical incantations i didn't understand at all

It was the only way I had to transfer data from the computer to... between computers and so i like burned these cds and compiled from source indiswrapper and i got it working and that was when i was just hooked like this was so exciting that i got my own computer working by doing a bunch of magical incantations i didn't understand at all

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah. I didn't have readable, writable. I luckily had gotten some, yeah, right once.

Oh, yeah. I didn't have readable, writable. I luckily had gotten some, yeah, right once.

Yep.

Yep.