Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if “runk” was real, which I assume not.
But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.
If he hadn’t written it someone else would have. Searching through text is an obvious thing to want to do.
And seems easy until you try to implement it yourself from scratch before most of us here were conscious of their workd
but thank fuck specifically he has cos now it’s a brilliant piece of software xD