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Some People I owe an awful lot to
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In no particular order, and perhaps not exhaustive:
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- - Matthew Thomas
- - A connoisseur of C# and the Dotnet ecosystem. A mentor and friend. He showed me the deep, dark, hell-hole of
- Powershell and Azure Pipelines (which are basically reskinned and nerfed Github workflows). When I worked with
- him, he held nothing but kindness for everyone and was always open to new ideas, no matter how out there they
- were. His presence gave me the necessary backing to entirely overhaul our noodly pipelines, may they rest
- unscrambled. Oh, also, Windows user 🤮.
- - Kirk Kelly
- - Kirk was to me a friend first, manager last. He supported me without fail in all situations. He cared, and I
- assume he still does, for those he worked with as firstmost the person they were, coworker last. No matter the
- scenario he always had sympathy and was a font of knowledge I perhaps didn't take advantage of enough in
- hindsight. Kirk, among all folks I've met, is one of those I hold in high regard.
- - Josh Beck
- - Although I have not spoken to him in many years, he taught me the foundation of all computer knowledge I
- possess and imparted to me my curiosity for computing. Under him I learned networking (though I never
- did get my CCNA, perhaps I should get around to that), my fundamentals in Linux, cybersecurity, server
- management, and the unfun hell of tearing apart old Dell Optiplex computers and many other things. Without him I
- imagine programming and all other things in computing I care for would not be my main focus today. He nurtured
- that passion and put up with all sorts of hijinks when I was learning from him. I have not spoken to him in some
- years, but if in some way, or somehow, he ever comes across this I hope he knows I hold him perhaps the highest
- among all.
- - Jacob Sanders
- - If not for him I think I would be even more "lost in the sauce" as it were. While he did not "teach" me in the
- traditional sense, he showed me true enterprise applications, pipelines, containerization, better ways to
- program, and absolutely could hammer the shit out of you with an exe sword in Mordhau. Because of him I
- luckily didn't spend two years only screwing around on video games (though I did a lot of that), and
- instead did some productive and worthwhile things. Had I not met him I don't think I would've built up the
- ability to learn new things as quickly as I can, nor have the interest to do so.
I'm done playing, let's go
- do some programmy.
~ Jacob Sanders. Also, Mac user 🤮.
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