Life and work is not meant to be spent in isolation

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A blog post encourages programmers to reach out to notable figures in computer science, emphasizing that life and work shouldn't be spent in isolation.

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# It is an amazing time for programmers! Source: [https://46elks.com/blog/2026/05/29/an-amazing-time-for-programmers](https://46elks.com/blog/2026/05/29/an-amazing-time-for-programmers) This is something I have been thinking a lot about but not yet written down in an article or blog post\. It truly is a unique time to be alive as a person writing software\. Many of the legends in the computer science space are still alive\. Actively programming\. And**you**can interact with them\! ### Programmers such as: Andrew Tridgell[link](https://tridgell.net/tridge/)[link](https://www.samba.org/~tridge/) Creator of Samba and rsync\. Linus Torvalds[link](https://kernel.org/)[link](https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.0/2022.html) Creator of Linux and git\. John Carmack[tweets](https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack)[link](https://github.com/id-software/doom)[link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVDXXfbz3QE&t=492s) Game developer behind Doom, Quake and CTO of Oculus Rift \(now Meta Quest\) Chris Lattner[tweets](https://x.com/clattner_llvm)[link](https://www.nondot.org/sabre/)[link](https://www.swift.org/) Creator of the Swift programming language\. Miguel de Icaza[tweets](https://x.com/migueldeicaza)[link](https://midnight-commander.org/)[link](https://www.mono-project.com/) Creator of Midnight Commander and Mono C\# runtime\. Fabrice Bellard[link](https://bellard.org/)[link](https://www.qemu.org/) Mastermind behind qemu, FFmpeg, QuickJS and so much more\. Mike Pall[link](https://luajit.org/) Maker of LuaJIT\. Take the opportunity to send one of them an email or tweet\. It might change your life\. And if you don't dare \(yet\) to write in English to any of the above, try in Swedish to any of the following less known but experienced and friendly programmers: Peter Schüller[link](https://www.scode.org/resume.html)[link](https://blog.x.com/engineering/en_us/a/2014/manhattan-our-real-time-multi-tenant-distributed-database-for-twitter-scale) Co\-creator of Twitter/X's database Manhattan, long time Java/C\+\+\-programmer\. Emil Tullstedt[link](https://94.is/) Friendly Python & Go programmer Carl Öst Wilkens[link](https://ostwilkens.se/)[link](https://ostwilkens.se/blog/small-games) Rusty game & imaging programmer Per Lundberg[link](https://github.com/perlun)[link](https://perlang.org/) Versatile programmer and my brother, the reason I got into coding\. Lova Widmark[link](https://kodsnack.se/685/)[link](https://www.twitch.tv/znurrish) C\+\+ programmer into assembler, anti\-cheat & game development If you want to lower the barrier even more, you could even start by sending me an email to johannesl at 46elks dot com\. Let me know who of the above programmers or other thing that inspire you\. I'll try to give you a helpful pointer\. Life and work is not meant to be spent in isolation\. ``` // Johannes "jojo" Ridderstedt ```

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