I’m into home distilling and there’s some guy called Alex who posted under Bokakob and designed a still back in 2001 and posted it on homedistiller.org. That design is still in use today and nobody really knows much about that guy or heard from him much since.
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yup, i have a vue 2 project that was using a UI-component library maintained by a single person, and i needed to migrate the project to vue 3, that person didn't have the resources to do it soon enough and i had to rewrite most of my app to switch to another UI-library, i chose this time one that's maintained by a large team instead
I think most hobbies have a few legends of the hobby.
I recently got into learning about foraging. There's is one dude is Wisconsin who basically wrote "The Book" on foraging. Samuel Thayer has basically rewrote what is and isn't edible. He tried all the old sources himself as well as doing checking ethnobotany sources and asking people native to the region about every plant. He's got three books and the ultimate field guide. All his books and titles are the source of the new AI slop foraging books out there.
CURL is kinda like that. Its in a better place now but hes still getting a bit burnt out .
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It's a tool for spot feeding coral. Just a syringe with a long tube and plunger but for its purpose it is fantastic. I have not found an origin for the devicr but assume someone named Julian put the first one together.
For larp, no. It's a hobby pretty much defined by everyone reinventing the wheel constantly.
For reenactment/experimental archeology? There are definitely authoritative works, but those are mostly by professional, traditional historians. There are remarkably few books on how to, say, bend an early medieval hedge, or how thick your daub needs to be or how old Madder should be to get the best colours.
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So I have finally started seeing some viable replacements, after a several weeks long partial outage due to changing infrastructure at GitHub, but for years now, the custom keyboard design community has relied on a single person’s site, https://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/ , to design keyboard layouts, and to generate properly labeled json exports to set up the most popular firmware.
Oh yeah also piefed only has a couple of devs on the entire project. A lot of open source is like that actually (kinda like xkcd is calling out in your example). Its crazy how much software we use is made by a VERY small subset of people.
If it wasn't for Bill, modern skydiving would not exist. It's not just the 3 ring release, but several of his innovations that brought jumping out of an airplane out of the dark ages. His "Vector" line of containers is the best in the business. My student jumps were on rip cord equipped containers, but once of student status I exclusively jumped BOC throw out PC's. Bottom Of Container Pilot Chute. This is how the main parachute is deployed by the jumper.
Does modern skydiving require his ongoing developments? Probably not, but the very foundation of skydiving was laid down by him. I would not have my 4500 jumps if it were not for him.
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