diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 79b301bc..a250922c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -258,12 +258,16 @@ A [Profullstack](https://profullstack.com) project. ## Artwork and card data v2 +The complete 277-card edition is published in `public/releases/v2/`: native SVG +artwork, SVG and PNG card faces, the card-data catalog, a proof gallery and the +release manifest. All six site rosters use these versioned faces. + Build a new edition with native SVG artwork by default, Astra 6 at `xhigh`, NicheDB metadata and optional GPT Image 2 PNG output: ```bash pnpm release:v2 --dry-run -pnpm release:v2 --series legends --only 2 --out dist/releases/v2-proof +pnpm release:v2 --series legends --only 2 --background --out dist/releases/v2-proof ``` See [the v2 workflow](docs/artwork-v2.md) for full-edition builds, PNG fallback, diff --git a/docs/artwork-v2.md b/docs/artwork-v2.md index 68335267..7ca192e3 100644 --- a/docs/artwork-v2.md +++ b/docs/artwork-v2.md @@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ pnpm release:v2 --dry-run # Set OPENAI_API_KEY through your environment/secret manager first. # Build one proof before spending on the full edition. -pnpm release:v2 --series legends --only 2 --out dist/releases/v2-proof +pnpm release:v2 --series legends --only 2 --background --out dist/releases/v2-proof # Open dist/releases/v2-proof/index.html and inspect both sides and sources. pnpm release:v2 validate --out dist/releases/v2-proof # Build the whole edition. Re-run this exact command after an interruption. -pnpm release:v2 --png-copies +pnpm release:v2 --png-copies --background --concurrency 8 pnpm release:v2 validate # After reviewing dist/releases/v2/index.html, activate the completed files locally. @@ -152,9 +152,25 @@ directory. If the process is killed, verify it has stopped before removing its stale lock file and resuming. Requests have timeouts and bounded retries for transient failures. Generation is -sequential to make stopping, recovery and rate-limit handling predictable. The -script reports actual API usage when returned, but does not estimate spending or -promise API model access: your account must have access to the configured models. +sequential by default; `--concurrency N` permits 1–64 cards at once while preserving +roster order and serializing manifest writes. Adjust concurrency to your account's +rate limits. Changing concurrency does not invalidate artwork checkpoints. + +Use `--background` for Astra requests that can exceed the foreground request's +four-minute timeout. It submits `background: true, store: true` and saves the +response ID in the staging directory's `.requests/` folder before polling. A +restart retrieves that same request and reuses completed output, including when +SVG validation needs a repair. Background responses are explicitly stored on +OpenAI for recovery; they contain the public roster text and generated artwork. +These working response files are not copied into the public release. Submission +is not automatically retried after an ambiguous network failure. Polling stops +after 30 minutes; re-run the command to continue polling the saved request. +`--force` intentionally bypasses saved requests as well as artwork checkpoints. +Background mode changes transport only, so existing artwork remains reusable. +See the [OpenAI background mode documentation](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/background). + +The script reports actual API usage when returned, but does not estimate spending +or promise API model access: your account must have access to the configured models. No paid API generation is necessary for the mocked automated tests. ```bash diff --git a/public/releases/v2/cards.json b/public/releases/v2/cards.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0f792055 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/cards.json @@ -0,0 +1,12816 @@ +{ + "schemaVersion": 2, + "edition": 2, + "cards": [ + { + "number": 1, + "slug": "richard-stallman", + "name": "Richard Stallman", + "title": "Founder of the GNU Project", + "knownFor": "Advocate for free software movement", + "rarity": "iconic", + "impact": 95, + "nationality": "USA", + "era": "1953", + "projects": [ + "GNU Project", + "Free Software Foundation", + "GNU C Compiler", + "GNU Emacs" + ], + "scouting": "Richard Stallman is a pivotal figure in the free software movement. He advocates for user freedoms in software usage, study, and modification. 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He alsolost the format war with Betamax.PROJECTS / DOMAINSConsumer electronics · Manufacturing · Global brandsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Watson Jr. — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Thomas J. Watson Jr.THE CONTRIBUTIONTook over his father’s punched-card company and moved itinto electronic computing over considerable internalobjection. The System/360, announced in 1964 after adevelopment effort usually costed at around $5 billion, wasthe bet: one architecture spanning the whole product line,so a customer’s software survived the next hardwarepurchase. Backwards compatibility as a commercial strategystarts here, and mainframes running 360-descended code arestill in production sixty years later.PROJECTS / DOMAINSMainframes · Compatibility · Corporate computingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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He ran it with the open-plan,no-reserved-parking informality that became the industry’shouse style. He was called the Mayor of Silicon Valley, andthe eight who walked out of Shockley Semiconductor with himseeded most of what followed.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSemiconductors · Integrated circuits · FoundingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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He was Intel’s CEO from 1975to 1987, through the period that made the microprocessorthe company’s business.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSemiconductors · Process technology · ForecastingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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His 1976 Open Letter to Hobbyists, which calledcopying Altair BASIC theft, is the document free softwarespent twenty years arguing with. Microsoft was found tohave violated the Sherman Act in 2000.PROJECTS / DOMAINSOperating systems · Licensing · ApplicationsPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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What came back with him mattered technicallyas well as commercially: NeXTSTEP became macOS and iOS,putting a BSD-derived Unix under hundreds of millions ofconsumer machines, and Apple’s KHTML fork became WebKit.The iPhone reset what a computer is.PROJECTS / DOMAINSPersonal computing · Product design · Consumer devicesPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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That made Oracle the steward ofJava and MySQL, and the plaintiff in Google v. Oracle. TheSupreme Court ruled fair use in 2021.PROJECTS / DOMAINSDatabases · Enterprise software · AcquisitionsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Distinct modular approaches feed a suspended matrix of shared records, surrounded by deep architectural cutaways.Co-founder and CEO, OracleSelling the relational database to the enterprise009 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/010-narayana-murthy/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/010-narayana-murthy/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e8b5c3c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/010-narayana-murthy/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +The open spanA folded architectural bridge carries identical modular bundles between two distant platforms. 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Infosys became the firstIndia-registered company listed on Nasdaq, in 1999.Domestically he was as known for insisting onWestern-standard disclosure and governance at a time whenneither was expected of an Indian firm.PROJECTS / DOMAINSIT services · Offshore delivery · Corporate governancePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.010 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/010-narayana-murthy/front.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/010-narayana-murthy/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8777c178 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/010-narayana-murthy/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/010-narayana-murthy/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/010-narayana-murthy/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0e21ceec --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/010-narayana-murthy/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +N. R. Narayana Murthy — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2N. R. Narayana MurthyThe open spanA folded architectural bridge carries identical modular bundles between two distant platforms. Its ivory roadway opens into a transparent, ribbed inspection hall, exposing the structure that makes the crossing possible.Co-founder and CEO, InfosysBuilding the Indian software industry as an export business010 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/011-masayoshi-son/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/011-masayoshi-son/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ad3650f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/011-masayoshi-son/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Displaced investment strata surround a deep fault. A precision semiconductor bridge joins the two masses, with distribution modules and open signal arcs above, and descending fractured plates below. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/011-masayoshi-son/back.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/011-masayoshi-son/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..02f115c7 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/011-masayoshi-son/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/011-masayoshi-son/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/011-masayoshi-son/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7bb24cc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/011-masayoshi-son/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Masayoshi Son — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Masayoshi SonTHE CONTRIBUTIONBuilt SoftBank from software distribution into a telecomsoperator and then the most consequential technologyinvestor alive. An early stake in Alibaba, bought foraround $20 million, returned tens of billions. He acquiredArm, whose instruction set is in essentially every phone onearth, for about $32 billion in 2016, and launched the $100billion Vision Fund, which then produced WeWork.PROJECTS / DOMAINSInvestment · Telecoms · SemiconductorsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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A precision semiconductor bridge joins the two masses, with distribution modules and open signal arcs above, and descending fractured plates below.Founder and CEO, SoftBankThe largest technology bets ever placed, in both directions011 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/012-michael-dell/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/012-michael-dell/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c5863e15 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/012-michael-dell/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/012-michael-dell/back.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/012-michael-dell/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d4fcf5e1 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/012-michael-dell/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/012-michael-dell/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/012-michael-dell/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..581db3be --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/012-michael-dell/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Michael Dell — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Michael DellTHE CONTRIBUTIONStarted assembling PCs in a University of Texas dorm roomin 1984 and turned direct sales and negative workingcapital into a manufacturing weapon: the customer paidbefore the supplier did. He took the company private in a$24.4 billion buyout in 2013, then bought EMC, and with itVMware, for about $67 billion in 2016.PROJECTS / DOMAINSPCs · Supply chain · Enterprise hardwarePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Sun published NFS as an openspecification, released OpenSolaris in 2005 and put Javaunder the GPL in 2006, decisions that outlived the companysince OpenJDK is what most Java runs on today. CommodityLinux boxes killed the workstation business.PROJECTS / DOMAINSWorkstations · Java · Open sourcePROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Beneath it, a luminous silicon wafer carries many geometries on one shared manufacturing stage. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/014-morris-chang/back.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/014-morris-chang/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..aff1af28 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/014-morris-chang/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/014-morris-chang/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/014-morris-chang/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5941681e --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/014-morris-chang/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Morris Chang — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Morris ChangTHE CONTRIBUTIONSpent twenty-five years at Texas Instruments, then foundedTSMC in 1987 on a proposition nobody had tried: a chipfactory that designs nothing of its own and therefore nevercompetes with its customers. That decision is why a companycan exist with brilliant chip designers and no fab, whichis to say why Nvidia, AMD and Apple Silicon exist in theircurrent form.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSemiconductors · Manufacturing · Foundry modelPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Beneath it, a luminous silicon wafer carries many geometries on one shared manufacturing stage.Founder and CEO, TSMCInventing the pure-play foundry, and with it the fabless industry014 / ICONIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/015-andy-grove/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/015-andy-grove/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c56135c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/015-andy-grove/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/015-andy-grove/back.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/015-andy-grove/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4cbe1b43 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/015-andy-grove/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/015-andy-grove/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/015-andy-grove/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c7540a39 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/015-andy-grove/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Andrew Grove — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Andrew GroveTHE CONTRIBUTIONEscaped Hungary in 1956, joined Intel as its first hire,and as CEO from 1987 to 1998 pushed the company out of thememory business it was founded on and into microprocessors,after Japanese competitors made DRAM unprofitable. He wrotethe discipline up in High Output Management and Only theParanoid Survive. Intel’s revenue grew roughly tenfold onhis watch.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSemiconductors · Management · ManufacturingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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US restrictions from2019 cut the company off from advanced chips and Google’sAndroid services, and the response was to fund substitutesin the open: HarmonyOS, and openEuler and openGauss handedto a Chinese open source foundation.PROJECTS / DOMAINSTelecom equipment · Smartphones · GeopoliticsPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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The decision thatmatters here was announced in 2000: roughly a billiondollars of IBM investment into Linux, plus lawyers andpatent cover. Nothing did more to make Linux acceptable inenterprise procurement.PROJECTS / DOMAINSEnterprise · Services · LinuxPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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When deeplearning arrived, the hardware and the programming modelwere already there. The open source relationship istwo-sided: the proprietary Linux driver drew Torvalds’famous 2012 insult, and the kernel modules were opened in2022.PROJECTS / DOMAINSGPUs · CUDA · AI infrastructurePROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Red Hat’s1999 IPO was one of the largest first-day gains in Nasdaqhistory, and the moment Wall Street conceded free softwarewas a business.PROJECTS / DOMAINSLinux distributions · Open source business · SubscriptionsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Three exposed service conduits pass through a monumental pink interface, turning the bridge's internal plumbing into shared infrastructure. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/020-jeff-bezos/back.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/020-jeff-bezos/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..77eba07b Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/020-jeff-bezos/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/020-jeff-bezos/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/020-jeff-bezos/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f952ef31 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/020-jeff-bezos/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Jeff Bezos — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Jeff BezosTHE CONTRIBUTIONStarted an online bookshop in 1994 and ran it fortwenty-seven years on deliberately thin margins andreinvestment, which is how it outlasted competitorsoptimising for quarterly profit. The decision with thedeepest technical consequences was internal: an API mandatethat every team expose its data over service interfaces,which turned Amazon’s own plumbing into AWS in 2006.PROJECTS / DOMAINSE-commerce · Cloud · LogisticsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Netflix engineering shaped how theindustry runs services at scale and published most of it:Chaos Monkey, Hystrix, Eureka and Zuul all shipped as opensource, and chaos engineering came out of that work.PROJECTS / DOMAINSStreaming · Distributed systems · CulturePROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. Sources and metadata accompany thiscard in cards.json.021 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/021-reed-hastings/front.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/021-reed-hastings/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..34243f25 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/021-reed-hastings/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/021-reed-hastings/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/021-reed-hastings/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0f6ccbe5 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/021-reed-hastings/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Reed Hastings — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Reed HastingsCo-founder and CEO, NetflixCannibalising his own business twice, on purpose021 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9b8e5f55 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +A common passageAn architectural cutaway of a growing marketplace. Independent folded lots gather on multiplying terraces around a pink communal exchange. A continuous green settlement plane passes through its open center and connects the divided foundations. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/back.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8927ed84 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e5814bfb --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Meg Whitman — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Meg WhitmanTHE CONTRIBUTIONJoined eBay in 1998 when it had a few dozen employees andleft in 2008 with tens of thousands, having turned anauction site into proof that strangers would transactonline at scale, and having bought PayPal in 2002, whichmattered more to the internet than the auctions did. Shelater ran HP through its split into HP Inc and HPE.PROJECTS / DOMAINSMarketplaces · Payments · EnterprisePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.022 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/front.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e44675cd Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0d94cc96 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Meg Whitman — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Meg WhitmanA common passageAn architectural cutaway of a growing marketplace. Independent folded lots gather on multiplying terraces around a pink communal exchange. A continuous green settlement plane passes through its open center and connects the divided foundations.CEO, eBay and Hewlett-PackardScaling the first great internet marketplace022 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/023-diane-greene/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/023-diane-greene/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2a862e91 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/023-diane-greene/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/023-diane-greene/back.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/023-diane-greene/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5f480cf5 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/023-diane-greene/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/023-diane-greene/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/023-diane-greene/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..96fdb905 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/023-diane-greene/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Diane Greene — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Diane GreeneTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-founded VMware in 1998 and ran it for a decade, shippingthe thing everyone had been told was impractical: efficientvirtualisation of an x86 architecture never designed forit. The consequence is the modern data centre. Serverconsolidation, live migration and the economics that madepublic cloud viable all rest on that work. She later ranGoogle Cloud.PROJECTS / DOMAINSVirtualisation · Data centres · CloudPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Twodecisions on his watch had enormous open sourceconsequence: Android was released permissively and given tohandset makers, which is why most phones run a Linuxkernel, and Chromium was open-sourced, which is why nearlyevery non-Safari browser is a Chromium derivative.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSearch · Android · InfrastructurePROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Almostevery enterprise product now sold by subscription,including most open source companies’ commercial tiers,operates in the category he legitimised.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSaaS · Enterprise · CloudPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Alibaba’s 2014 New York listing raisedabout $25 billion, the largest IPO in history at the time.Dubbo and RocketMQ are Apache projects that came out of thecompany.PROJECTS / DOMAINSE-commerce · Payments · CloudPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. Sources and metadata accompany thiscard in cards.json.026 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/026-jack-ma/front.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/026-jack-ma/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e70e9352 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/026-jack-ma/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/026-jack-ma/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/026-jack-ma/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b3bbeb49 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/026-jack-ma/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Jack Ma — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Jack MaFounder and CEO, AlibabaBuilding China’s commerce infrastructure from an apartment026 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/027-marten-mickos/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/027-marten-mickos/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5c57b560 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/027-marten-mickos/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/027-marten-mickos/back.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/027-marten-mickos/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5a56e343 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/027-marten-mickos/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/027-marten-mickos/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/027-marten-mickos/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3cb0b95f --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/027-marten-mickos/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Mårten Mickos — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Mårten MickosTHE CONTRIBUTIONRan MySQL AB from 2001 and sold it to Sun in 2008 for abouta billion dollars, the most anyone had paid for an opensource company. MySQL was the M in LAMP, so the deal proveda freely licensed database with a paid support tier couldbe worth as much as a proprietary one. He later ranEucalyptus and HackerOne.PROJECTS / DOMAINSDatabases · Open source business · SecurityPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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He built the advertising machine and themanagement structure that carried the company from a fewhundred people to tens of thousands, and presided over theAndroid and YouTube acquisitions.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSearch · Advertising · EnterprisePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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The open sourcerecord is enormous and largely separate from thereputational one: React, PyTorch, GraphQL, RocksDB, theOpen Compute Project, and the Llama open-weight models.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSocial platforms · Open source · AIPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Shopify grew into the platform behindmillions of storefronts and remains one of the largest Rubydeployments anywhere, with Liquid, its templating language,released as open source.PROJECTS / DOMAINSE-commerce · Ruby · Developer platformsPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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In 2014 Tesla pledged not to enforce its patentsagainst anyone using them in good faith. He bought Twitterfor $44 billion in 2022.PROJECTS / DOMAINSAerospace · Automotive · Social platformsPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Theearly peer-to-peer work solved it, and the licensing dealsdragged the record industry into a model it had spent adecade litigating against. Spotify also gave the industryBackstage.PROJECTS / DOMAINSStreaming · Licensing · Developer toolingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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AWS turnedcomputing into a utility. It also set off the defininglicensing fight of the era: Elastic, MongoDB and Redischanged licences over managed services built on their code,and Amazon forked Elasticsearch into OpenSearch, laterdonated to the Linux Foundation.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCloud · Infrastructure · EnterprisePROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Independent ivory pathways converge into one citron passage. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/034-chris-wanstrath/back.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/034-chris-wanstrath/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..318fcbd4 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/034-chris-wanstrath/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/034-chris-wanstrath/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/034-chris-wanstrath/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..78beb88c --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/034-chris-wanstrath/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Chris Wanstrath — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Chris WanstrathTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-founded GitHub in 2008 and was CEO through the periodwhen it became the default home of open source, largely bymaking the pull request a social object rather than amailing-list patch. The company was bootstrapped for fouryears, ran on a famously flat structure that later cameapart, and sold to Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018.PROJECTS / DOMAINSDeveloper platforms · Git · CollaborationPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Independent ivory pathways converge into one citron passage.Co-founder and CEO, GitHubThe place the world’s open source moved to034 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b9a7abb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +The expanding commonsAn outward-growing architectural sculpture of interlocked folded planes. Small open modules support larger shared terraces, a luminous ascending passage, and a broad pink canopy that remains open. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/back.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4505ee73 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f5f4b3c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Jim Whitehurst — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Jim WhitehurstTHE CONTRIBUTIONCame from Delta Air Lines to run Red Hat in 2008 and grewit from about $500 million to over $3 billion in annualrevenue, the first open source company at that scale,before selling to IBM for $34 billion in 2019. He wrote TheOpen Organization, and backed the OpenShift bet onKubernetes early.PROJECTS / DOMAINSLinux · Open source business · EnterprisePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.035 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/front.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..86701248 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..af995cb2 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Jim Whitehurst — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Jim WhitehurstThe expanding commonsAn outward-growing architectural sculpture of interlocked folded planes. Small open modules support larger shared terraces, a luminous ascending passage, and a broad pink canopy that remains open.CEO, Red HatTaking an open source company past three billion in revenue035 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0f6883f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/back.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5c0073b3 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..184b2de8 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Matthew Prince — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Matthew PrinceTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-founded Cloudflare in 2009 with Michelle Zatlyn and LeeHolloway and gave away DDoS protection and a CDN to anyonewho asked, which is why a large share of the web now passesthrough it. The company open-sourced Quiche, Pingora andthe Workers runtime, funded Let’s Encrypt, and runs ProjectGalileo for civil society sites at no charge.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCDN · Security · Edge computingPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. Sources and metadata accompany thiscard in cards.json.036 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/front.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..393a9bf0 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5267e7fe --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Matthew Prince — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Matthew PrinceCo-founder and CEO, CloudflareA free tier that quietly became internet infrastructure036 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/037-patrick-collison/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/037-patrick-collison/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fd5cdaaf --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/037-patrick-collison/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/037-patrick-collison/back.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/037-patrick-collison/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6fd017ca Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/037-patrick-collison/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/037-patrick-collison/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/037-patrick-collison/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c8c7a9c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/037-patrick-collison/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Patrick Collison — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Patrick CollisonTHE CONTRIBUTIONFounded Stripe with his brother John in 2010, whenaccepting a card online meant weeks of paperwork with abank, and replaced it with an API you could integrate in anafternoon. The company set the standard for what developerdocumentation is expected to look like, and open-sourcedSorbet, a gradual type checker for Ruby now used wellbeyond Stripe.PROJECTS / DOMAINSPayments · Developer platforms · APIsPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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The move to Apple Silicon was the largestarchitecture migration any consumer platform has attempted.Apple open-sourced Swift in 2015 and funds LLVM, Clang andWebKit.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSupply chain · Consumer devices · SiliconPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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NicheDB: not-found. 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He leftin 2024 with that unfinished.PROJECTS / DOMAINSProcessors · Virtualisation · ManufacturingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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A shared pink runway crosses layered substrates and reaches an independent branching archive. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/041-satya-nadella/back.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/041-satya-nadella/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..33dea30b Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/041-satya-nadella/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/041-satya-nadella/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/041-satya-nadella/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6ededf14 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/041-satya-nadella/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Satya Nadella — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Satya NadellaTHE CONTRIBUTIONTook over Microsoft in 2014, a company whose previous CEOhad called Linux a cancer, and reversed the posturecompletely: .NET open-sourced and cross-platform, the Linuxkernel shipped inside Windows as WSL, VS Code releasedunder MIT, Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation, andGitHub bought for $7.5 billion in 2018 and left to runitself.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCloud · Open source · AIPROVENANCE3 references. 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AMD’s ROCm stack is open source, the onlycredible open alternative to CUDA.PROJECTS / DOMAINSProcessors · GPUs · SemiconductorsPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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The open thread runsthrough the codecs: Google released VP8 and VP9royalty-free, then AV1 through the Alliance for Open Media.She died in 2024.PROJECTS / DOMAINSVideo · Advertising · CodecsPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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GitLab has been all-remote from thestart and publishes its entire internal handbook in public.PROJECTS / DOMAINSDevOps · Open core · Remote workPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.044 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/044-sid-sijbrandij/front.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/044-sid-sijbrandij/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8692e4f5 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/044-sid-sijbrandij/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/044-sid-sijbrandij/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/044-sid-sijbrandij/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..81c9d36c --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/044-sid-sijbrandij/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Sid Sijbrandij — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Sid SijbrandijCo-founder and CEO, GitLabOpen core, an all-remote company, and a handbook anyone can read044 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/045-jay-kreps/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/045-jay-kreps/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a6d889d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/045-jay-kreps/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/045-jay-kreps/back.png b/public/releases/v2/ceos/045-jay-kreps/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dd0e05d1 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/ceos/045-jay-kreps/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/ceos/045-jay-kreps/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/ceos/045-jay-kreps/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9f307886 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/ceos/045-jay-kreps/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Jay Kreps — Open Source Legends v2TECH CEOS / V2Jay KrepsTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-created Apache Kafka at LinkedIn to solve the company’sown data-pipeline mess, wrote The Log, the essay thattaught a generation of engineers to think of state as areplayable stream, and left in 2014 to found Confluentaround it. Kafka is now infrastructure at most largecompanies, and Confluent went public in 2021.PROJECTS / DOMAINSStreaming data · Distributed systems · Open source businessPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Google under himreleased TensorFlow, Kubernetes, Go and Chromium, whilefacing antitrust rulings over the businesses that pay forall of it.PROJECTS / DOMAINSBrowsers · Android · AIPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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He is also the clearest example of the open-coretension of his generation: the framework is MIT, thehosting is the business.PROJECTS / DOMAINSWeb frameworks · Deployment · JavaScriptPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Thecompany has kept releasing the substrate rather thanhoarding it: Delta Lake, MLflow, Unity Catalog and theDolly models were all open-sourced, and it bought MosaicMLand Tabular to keep the open table format from fragmenting.PROJECTS / DOMAINSData platforms · Distributed computing · AIPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Instead private repositories became free, Actionsand Codespaces shipped, and the Arctic Code Vault buried asnapshot of open source in a Norwegian mine.PROJECTS / DOMAINSDeveloper platforms · Open source · AI toolingPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Hewas fired by his own board in November 2023 and reinstatedfive days later. The name is the permanent argument:frontier models closed, Whisper and gpt-oss open.PROJECTS / DOMAINSAI · Startups · CapitalPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Was provedright in 2012 when his students won ImageNet by a marginnobody could argue with. Shared the 2018 Turing Award andthe 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, and left Google to speakfreely about the risks.PROJECTS / DOMAINSNeural networks · Backpropagation · Deep learningPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Shared the 2018 Turing Award. AsMeta’s chief AI scientist he has been the loudest seniorvoice for releasing weights rather than gatekeeping them,which is a large part of why open-weight models exist atall.PROJECTS / DOMAINSConvolutional networks · Self-supervised learning · Open modelsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Founded MILA, whose lab produced Theano— the framework a generation of researchers learned onbefore TensorFlow and PyTorch existed. Co-authored the DeepLearning textbook, and now chairs international scientificreporting on AI risk.PROJECTS / DOMAINSDeep learning · Representation learning · AI safetyPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Also did early work onmeta-learning, artificial curiosity and GAN-adjacent ideas,and is famous for pointing out, at length, when the fieldforgets its own history.PROJECTS / DOMAINSRecurrent networks · LSTM · Meta-learningPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Repeated chambers carry a sequence of predictions toward a luminous replacement step; faint earlier estimates trail behind it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/005-rich-sutton/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/005-rich-sutton/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..226b2dff Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/005-rich-sutton/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/005-rich-sutton/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/005-rich-sutton/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..95f1cfb7 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/005-rich-sutton/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Richard S. Sutton — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Richard S. SuttonTHE CONTRIBUTIONInvented temporal-difference learning and co-wroteReinforcement Learning: An Introduction, the textbook thewhole field learned from and which is free online. His 2019essay “The Bitter Lesson” — that general methods pluscompute beat handcrafted human knowledge — has become themost-cited two pages in modern AI. Shared the 2024 TuringAward.PROJECTS / DOMAINSReinforcement learning · Temporal-difference learning · AGIPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. Sources and metadata accompany thiscard in cards.json.005 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/005-rich-sutton/front.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/005-rich-sutton/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..61b5366c Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/005-rich-sutton/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/005-rich-sutton/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/005-rich-sutton/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..01f47ccf --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/005-rich-sutton/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Richard S. Sutton — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Richard S. SuttonThe self-correcting spanAn impossible modular viaduct folds through its own structure. Repeated chambers carry a sequence of predictions toward a luminous replacement step; faint earlier estimates trail behind it.The Bitter LessonReinforcement learning, and the essay that keeps being right005 / ICONIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/006-andrew-barto/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/006-andrew-barto/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f726acf0 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/006-andrew-barto/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/006-andrew-barto/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/006-andrew-barto/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9db32815 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/006-andrew-barto/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/006-andrew-barto/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/006-andrew-barto/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e7f67c4d --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/006-andrew-barto/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Andrew Barto — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Andrew BartoTHE CONTRIBUTIONWith Sutton, built reinforcement learning into a coherentfield from the actor-critic architecture onward, andco-wrote the textbook that defined it. His work tiedmachine learning back to animal learning anddopamine-driven reward prediction, which turned out todescribe both. Shared the 2024 Turing Award.PROJECTS / DOMAINSReinforcement learning · Control · Neuroscience-inspired AIPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Turing Award, 2011. Spends much of his timearguing that systems which only fit correlations aremissing the thing that makes reasoning work, an argumentthe scaling era has not settled.PROJECTS / DOMAINSProbabilistic reasoning · Causal inference · Bayesian networksPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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The 2012competition on that dataset is the moment deep learningstopped being a minority position. Founded Stanford HAI,served as chief scientist of AI at Google Cloud, and haspushed hard on who gets a say in how this technology isbuilt.PROJECTS / DOMAINSComputer vision · Datasets · Human-centred AIPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Every large languagemodel since is a transformer, which makes those eight pagesthe most consequential architecture paper of the century sofar. Later co-founded Adept and then Essential AI.PROJECTS / DOMAINSTransformers · Attention · Sequence modellingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Left Google to foundCharacter.AI, then returned to lead Gemini. Widely regardedas the best engineer in the room on making big modelscheap.PROJECTS / DOMAINSTransformers · Mixture of experts · Inference efficiencyPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Moved to OpenAI to work onthe reasoning-model line. The gap between publishing anarchitecture and everyone being able to run it was largelyhis to close.PROJECTS / DOMAINSTransformers · ML frameworks · Reasoning modelsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Co-founded FOR.ai and then Cohere, buildinglarge language models for enterprises, and Cohere Labs hasreleased open-weight multilingual models including the Ayafamily with a strong emphasis on languages the fieldusually ignores.PROJECTS / DOMAINSTransformers · Language models · Enterprise AIPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Releasedcuda-convnet so others could reproduce it. Also assembledCIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, which remain the default firstdatasets for anyone learning the field.PROJECTS / DOMAINSConvolutional networks · GPU training · Computer visionPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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The through-line of his career is aconviction that scale plus the right objective gets youmost of the way, held earlier and harder than almostanyone. Left in 2024 to found Safe Superintelligence.PROJECTS / DOMAINSDeep learning · Language models · AlignmentPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Its opened skin reveals layered sections. One displaced orange surface cell travels back along a separate feedback trajectory. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/015-ian-goodfellow/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/015-ian-goodfellow/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..faec5a57 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/015-ian-goodfellow/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/015-ian-goodfellow/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/015-ian-goodfellow/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fddfc8a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/015-ian-goodfellow/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Ian Goodfellow — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Ian GoodfellowTHE CONTRIBUTIONProposed generative adversarial networks in 2014 — twonetworks trained against each other — and gave imagegeneration its first decade. Co-wrote the Deep Learningtextbook with Bengio and Courville, which is free to readonline, and did foundational work on adversarial examplesthat became its own subfield.PROJECTS / DOMAINSGenerative models · Adversarial examples · Deep learningPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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One displaced orange surface cell travels back along a separate feedback trajectory.Inventor of the GANGenerative adversarial networks015 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/016-tri-dao/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/016-tri-dao/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a3c39cbe --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/016-tri-dao/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/016-tri-dao/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/016-tri-dao/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5b00ddb9 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/016-tri-dao/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/016-tri-dao/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/016-tri-dao/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..240deec3 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/016-tri-dao/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Tri Dao — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Tri DaoTHE CONTRIBUTIONWrote FlashAttention, an IO-aware exact attention kernelthat cut memory use enough to make long contexts practical,and released it openly — it is now in essentially everytraining stack in the world. Co-created the Mamba statespace architecture with Albert Gu, also open. Chiefscientist at Together AI and a Princeton professor.PROJECTS / DOMAINSEfficient attention · State space models · GPU kernelsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Co-created Mamba with Tri Dao and releasedit openly. The most serious architectural alternative tothe transformer to come out of the last decade.PROJECTS / DOMAINSState space models · Long sequences · Architecture researchPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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DCGAN before that. Whisper was releasedopenly with weights and remains the default speechrecognition model for anyone who does not want to sendaudio to an API.PROJECTS / DOMAINSLanguage models · Multimodal models · SpeechPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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His RL lectureseries, free on YouTube, taught the subject to ageneration.PROJECTS / DOMAINSReinforcement learning · Search · Self-playPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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One of the few researchers whose careerspans the pre-transformer, game-playing and frontier-modeleras at the top of each.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSequence models · Multi-agent RL · Large modelsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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DeepMindthen released the code and predicted structures foressentially every known protein, free, which is the partbiologists actually talk about. Shared the 2024 Nobel Prizein Chemistry.PROJECTS / DOMAINSStructural biology · Deep learning · Open sciencePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.021 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/021-john-jumper/front.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/021-john-jumper/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f85452de Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/021-john-jumper/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/021-john-jumper/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/021-john-jumper/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1134fd2f --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/021-john-jumper/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +John Jumper — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2John JumperArchitect of AlphaFoldSolving protein structure prediction, and releasing it021 / ICONIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/022-shane-legg/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/022-shane-legg/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9d859bba --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/022-shane-legg/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/022-shane-legg/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/022-shane-legg/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f1806cc4 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/022-shane-legg/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/022-shane-legg/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/022-shane-legg/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0f71a42b --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/022-shane-legg/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Shane Legg — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Shane LeggTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-founded DeepMind with Hassabis and Suleyman and is chiefAGI scientist there. His doctoral work with Marcus Hutterproduced a formal definition of machine intelligence, andhe popularised the term AGI at a point when saying it outloud was a career risk. Has publicly held a rough timelinefor human-level AI since 2011.PROJECTS / DOMAINSAGI · Machine intelligence theory · SafetyPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Shared the 2024 NobelPrize in Chemistry for the last of those. Has beenconsistent for two decades that the point of buildingintelligence is to use it on science.PROJECTS / DOMAINSReinforcement learning · Scientific AI · NeurosciencePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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NicheDB: unconfirmed. Sources and metadata accompany thiscard in cards.json.024 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/024-pieter-abbeel/front.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/024-pieter-abbeel/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5340c5d8 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/024-pieter-abbeel/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/024-pieter-abbeel/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/024-pieter-abbeel/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..139b140d --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/024-pieter-abbeel/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Pieter Abbeel — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Pieter AbbeelRobots That LearnDeep reinforcement learning for real machines024 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/025-andrej-karpathy/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/025-andrej-karpathy/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a2f2ecf2 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/025-andrej-karpathy/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/025-andrej-karpathy/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/025-andrej-karpathy/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f1125cda Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/025-andrej-karpathy/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/025-andrej-karpathy/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/025-andrej-karpathy/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a0b1df65 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/025-andrej-karpathy/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Andrej Karpathy — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Andrej KarpathyTHE CONTRIBUTIONFounding member of OpenAI, then director of AI at Tesla,but the reason he is on this card is the teaching:char-rnn, CS231n, micrograd, nanoGPT, llm.c and the Zero toHero series, all free, all readable. He has probably taughtmore working engineers how a transformer actually worksthan every university course combined.PROJECTS / DOMAINSNeural networks · Teaching · Open sourcePROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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TensorFlow being released openly in2015 is a large part of why the deep learning boom was notconfined to a handful of labs.PROJECTS / DOMAINSDistributed systems · ML infrastructure · Model trainingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. Sources and metadata accompany thiscard in cards.json.026 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/026-jeff-dean/front.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/026-jeff-dean/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..114edf09 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/026-jeff-dean/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/026-jeff-dean/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/026-jeff-dean/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f8f23c8c --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/026-jeff-dean/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Jeff Dean — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Jeff DeanThe InfrastructureMapReduce, TensorFlow, TPUs and Google Brain026 / ICONIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..98a21aa6 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Public ManifoldA dense, enclosed tensor assembly opens through an exploded precision interface. Flowing lavender lamellae distribute its structure into three accessible, interchangeable training platforms, with exposed sockets and layered specification plates. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4c4f3c02 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dd0e14fb --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Rajat Monga — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Rajat MongaTHE CONTRIBUTIONLed TensorFlow engineering at Google, taking the internalDistBelief system and shipping it as an open-sourceframework with a public API, documentation and a community.For several years TensorFlow was simply how machinelearning was done outside a handful of labs, and that wasan engineering and release-management achievement as muchas a research one.PROJECTS / DOMAINSML frameworks · Distributed training · Open sourcePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.027 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/front.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3c9298f9 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e7b62bfe --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Rajat Monga — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Rajat MongaPublic ManifoldA dense, enclosed tensor assembly opens through an exploded precision interface. Flowing lavender lamellae distribute its structure into three accessible, interchangeable training platforms, with exposed sockets and layered specification plates.The TensorFlow LeadTurning DistBelief into something the public could use027 / RARE / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/028-soumith-chintala/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/028-soumith-chintala/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1075c0dd --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/028-soumith-chintala/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +An open, inspectable frameworkA cutaway ceramic labyrinth threaded by a lavender working path. Removable partitions expose the interior, and an amber inspection gate opens above the route. Layered foundations and interchangeable pieces make the construction visibly accessible. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/028-soumith-chintala/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/028-soumith-chintala/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d10cca92 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/028-soumith-chintala/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/028-soumith-chintala/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/028-soumith-chintala/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6ef682ea --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/028-soumith-chintala/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Soumith Chintala — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Soumith ChintalaTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-created and led PyTorch, which won the researchcommunity by being straightforwardly pleasant to debug whenthe alternative was not. Ran it as a genuinely open projectwith an unusually visible maintainer, shepherded it intothe Linux Foundation, and co-authored DCGAN along the way.Almost every model in this set was trained in hisframework.PROJECTS / DOMAINSML frameworks · Open source · CommunityPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Layered foundations and interchangeable pieces make the construction visibly accessible.The Face of PyTorchThe framework the research world actually switched to028 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/029-adam-paszke/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/029-adam-paszke/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8728cf92 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/029-adam-paszke/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/029-adam-paszke/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/029-adam-paszke/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6a3220b7 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/029-adam-paszke/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/029-adam-paszke/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/029-adam-paszke/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..11f7d493 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/029-adam-paszke/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Adam Paszke — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Adam PaszkeTHE CONTRIBUTIONWrote the original PyTorch autograd engine as a student andis first author on the PyTorch paper, then moved to Googleand became a core author of JAX. Two of the threeframeworks serious research runs on have his designdecisions inside them, which is an unusual thing to be ableto say.PROJECTS / DOMAINSAutomatic differentiation · Compilers · ML frameworksPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Every one of them open, and each solved abottleneck the field was about to hit.PROJECTS / DOMAINSGradient boosting · ML compilers · On-device inferencePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Later built Caffe2 at Facebook, co-created ONNX somodels could move between frameworks, and led large-scaleAI infrastructure at Alibaba before founding Lepton AI.PROJECTS / DOMAINSML frameworks · Model interchange · InferencePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Also created the ARC benchmark and itsprize, a deliberate test of fluid reasoning that currentmodels still find hard — a useful corrective to benchmarksaturation.PROJECTS / DOMAINSML frameworks · API design · Abstraction and reasoningPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.032 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/032-francois-chollet/front.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/032-francois-chollet/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0209d5dc Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/032-francois-chollet/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/032-francois-chollet/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/032-francois-chollet/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fd949d19 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/032-francois-chollet/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +François Chollet — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2François CholletAuthor of KerasThe API that made neural networks approachable, and ARC032 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5d9185e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6c6e2a3e Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9d18e72d --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Thomas Wolf — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Thomas WolfTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-founder and chief scientist of Hugging Face, and thedriving force behind the transformers library, which turned"reproduce this paper" from a week of work into an importstatement. Led the BigScience collaboration that producedBLOOM, one of the first genuinely open large multilingualmodels, built by a thousand researchers in the open.PROJECTS / DOMAINSOpen models · Libraries · CommunityPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. Sources and metadata accompany thiscard in cards.json.033 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/front.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..38c26ad3 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6ddc6dc1 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Thomas Wolf — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Thomas WolfThe Transformers LibraryMaking every published model a one-line import033 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/034-clement-delangue/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/034-clement-delangue/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..767c046f --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/034-clement-delangue/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/034-clement-delangue/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/034-clement-delangue/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ae0a80b5 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/034-clement-delangue/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/034-clement-delangue/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/034-clement-delangue/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..62687365 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/034-clement-delangue/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Clément Delangue — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Clément DelangueTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-founded Hugging Face and turned it from a chatbot appinto the default distribution point for open models,datasets and demos. Whatever you think of the company, theHub is the reason an open-weight release can reach everyonethe day it lands, and the reason a small lab can ship amodel at all.PROJECTS / DOMAINSOpen models · Platforms · CommunityPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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The GGUF format and its quantisationschemes are how most people actually run a model locally.Arguably did more for practical access to open models thanany lab release.PROJECTS / DOMAINSInference · Quantisation · Local modelsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Hishardware guides are the reference for anyone deciding whatto buy.PROJECTS / DOMAINSQuantisation · Efficient fine-tuning · Accessible trainingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Has been one of the most persistent public voicesagainst regulating open-weight models out of existence.PROJECTS / DOMAINSTransfer learning · Education · Open model policyPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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LedPythia, a suite of models released with every trainingcheckpoint and the data order — which made a whole class ofinterpretability and memorisation research possible for thefirst time.PROJECTS / DOMAINSOpen language models · Training data · ReproducibilityPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Also contributed substantial CPU inferencespeedups back to llama.cpp.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSystems programming · Portable binaries · Local inferencePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Nearly every open fine-tune, quantisation andlocal-inference project of the following two years tracesto those weights. Co-founded Mistral, which has keptreleasing open-weight models under permissive licences.PROJECTS / DOMAINSLanguage models · Open weights · Efficient trainingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.040 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/040-guillaume-lample/front.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/040-guillaume-lample/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c5b46502 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/040-guillaume-lample/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/040-guillaume-lample/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/040-guillaume-lample/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0b65cdeb --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/040-guillaume-lample/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Guillaume Lample — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Guillaume LampleLead Author of LLaMAThe model release that created the open-weight ecosystem040 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/041-arthur-mensch/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/041-arthur-mensch/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..04161841 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/041-arthur-mensch/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/041-arthur-mensch/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/041-arthur-mensch/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b27acbd9 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/041-arthur-mensch/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/041-arthur-mensch/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/041-arthur-mensch/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..185a0a30 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/041-arthur-mensch/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Arthur Mensch — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Arthur MenschTHE CONTRIBUTIONWorked on Chinchilla and Flamingo at DeepMind, thenco-founded Mistral and released Mistral 7B and Mixtralunder Apache 2.0 — models good enough that "open weights"stopped being a compromise. Made the case, commerciallyrather than rhetorically, that a frontier lab can give theweights away and still have a business.PROJECTS / DOMAINSLanguage models · Open weights · Efficient inferencePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Its open release in 2022 put image generation ineveryone’s hands overnight and set off both an explosion oftooling and a still-unresolved argument about trainingdata.PROJECTS / DOMAINSDiffusion models · Generative imagery · Open weightsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Later led therectified-flow architecture behind Stable Diffusion 3 andmoved to Black Forest Labs for the FLUX models, which werealso released with open weights.PROJECTS / DOMAINSGenerative models · Diffusion · Image synthesisPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.043 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/043-patrick-esser/front.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/043-patrick-esser/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..62ad7fe4 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/043-patrick-esser/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/043-patrick-esser/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/043-patrick-esser/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7d991b61 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/043-patrick-esser/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Patrick Esser — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Patrick EsserThe Other Half of DiffusionVQGAN, latent diffusion and Stable Diffusion 3043 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/044-christoph-schuhmann/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/044-christoph-schuhmann/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..51bd53d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/044-christoph-schuhmann/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/044-christoph-schuhmann/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/044-christoph-schuhmann/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..33fa3e8f Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/044-christoph-schuhmann/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/044-christoph-schuhmann/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/044-christoph-schuhmann/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c94497d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/044-christoph-schuhmann/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Christoph Schuhmann — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Christoph SchuhmannTHE CONTRIBUTIONA schoolteacher who organised a volunteer effort toassemble LAION-400M and LAION-5B, the open image-textdatasets that Stable Diffusion and OpenCLIP were trainedon. Before LAION, the data behind multimodal models wasprivate by default; afterwards, anyone could inspect it —including the researchers who found serious problems in it.PROJECTS / DOMAINSOpen datasets · Multimodal data · Community researchPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Created the machine learningreproducibility checklist adopted by NeurIPS, forcing thefield to state its assumptions and publish enough to bechecked.PROJECTS / DOMAINSReinforcement learning · Open science · Research leadershipPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Co-founded Anthropic,where the interpretability team continues to publish itsfindings openly.PROJECTS / DOMAINSInterpretability · Visualisation · Scientific communicationPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.046 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/046-chris-olah/front.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/046-chris-olah/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8d544112 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/046-chris-olah/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/046-chris-olah/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/046-chris-olah/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b468b928 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/046-chris-olah/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Chris Olah — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Chris OlahOpening the Black BoxDistill, feature visualisation and mechanistic interpretability046 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6cde5b08 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..11c0baa5 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5c79a8ce --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Paul Christiano — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Paul ChristianoTHE CONTRIBUTIONLead author of deep reinforcement learning from humanpreferences, the technique that became RLHF and turned rawlanguage models into things that follow instructions — thesingle largest reason chat assistants work at all. Laterfounded the Alignment Research Center and moved to the USAI Safety Institute.PROJECTS / DOMAINSAlignment · Preference learning · AI safetyPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. Sources and metadata accompany thiscard in cards.json.047 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/front.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8cfa4c88 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..069b9d86 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Paul Christiano — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Paul ChristianoThe RLHF PaperLearning from human preferences047 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/048-jan-leike/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/048-jan-leike/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6bc0de0d --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/048-jan-leike/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/048-jan-leike/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/048-jan-leike/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9ac330d0 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/048-jan-leike/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/048-jan-leike/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/048-jan-leike/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d5127267 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/048-jan-leike/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Jan Leike — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Jan LeikeTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-led the work that turned RLHF into InstructGPT and thenChatGPT, and headed OpenAI’s superalignment effort.Resigned publicly in 2024 saying safety culture had lostout to shipping, which is a rare thing for someone at thatlevel to say on the record, and moved to Anthropic tocontinue the work.PROJECTS / DOMAINSAlignment · RLHF · Scalable oversightPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Its layered channels open toward displaced possible continuations, while one rigid line is constrained by a small, fixed aperture. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/049-stuart-russell/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/049-stuart-russell/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9eebb995 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/049-stuart-russell/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/049-stuart-russell/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/049-stuart-russell/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8101e1fb --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/049-stuart-russell/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Stuart Russell — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Stuart RussellTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-wrote Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach withPeter Norvig, the textbook that has taught the subject inessentially every university for thirty years. Then spentthe later part of his career arguing that optimising afixed objective is the wrong design, and that systemsshould be uncertain about what humans want.PROJECTS / DOMAINSAI foundations · Value alignment · PolicyPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Its layered channels open toward displaced possible continuations, while one rigid line is constrained by a small, fixed aperture.The Textbook and the WarningArtificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach049 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e29aa169 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/back.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c7a9d015 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..be88afd7 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Dario Amodei — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Dario AmodeiTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-authored Concrete Problems in AI Safety, which gavesafety research a concrete agenda, and led the GPT-2 andGPT-3 work where the scaling laws were established. LeftOpenAI to co-found Anthropic, whose interpretability andConstitutional AI research is published openly even thoughthe models are not.PROJECTS / DOMAINSScaling · Alignment · Frontier modelsPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. Sources and metadata accompany thiscard in cards.json.050 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/front.png b/public/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..99ec5a6c Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..eef333c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Dario Amodei — Open Source Legends v2GODS OF AI / V2Dario AmodeiScaling Laws and AnthropicConcrete Problems in AI Safety, and the scaling hypothesis050 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/001-kevin-mitnick/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/001-kevin-mitnick/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8d6ce6b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/001-kevin-mitnick/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/001-kevin-mitnick/back.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/001-kevin-mitnick/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..323d3a99 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/001-kevin-mitnick/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/001-kevin-mitnick/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/001-kevin-mitnick/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d7872419 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/001-kevin-mitnick/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Kevin Mitnick — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2Kevin MitnickTHE CONTRIBUTIONTalked his way into more networks than he ever broke into.A teenage phone phreak who became the FBI’s most-wantedhacker, was captured in 1995, served five years, and cameout the other side as a security consultant and author ofThe Art of Deception. He made the industry admit theobvious: the person on the phone is the vulnerability.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSocial engineering · Phone phreaking · TelecomPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Luminous channels branch through an ivory exchange suspended above a blue, unlettered switching instrument. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/002-john-draper/back.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/002-john-draper/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c88796ef Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/002-john-draper/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/002-john-draper/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/002-john-draper/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cac7841b --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/002-john-draper/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +John Draper — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2John DraperTHE CONTRIBUTIONDiscovered that a toy whistle packed in a cereal boxproduced the exact 2600 Hz tone AT&T used to signal a freetrunk line. The blue-box scene that grew from it pulled intwo young Californians named Wozniak and Jobs, and drew theblueprint for every generation of hacker that followed.PROJECTS / DOMAINSPhone phreaking · Blue boxesPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Luminous channels branch through an ivory exchange suspended above a blue, unlettered switching instrument.The Original Phone PhreakThe 2600 Hz whistle that opened the phone network002 / ICONIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/003-robert-tappan-morris/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/003-robert-tappan-morris/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dd750990 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/003-robert-tappan-morris/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/003-robert-tappan-morris/back.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/003-robert-tappan-morris/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1fc0238f Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/003-robert-tappan-morris/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/003-robert-tappan-morris/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/003-robert-tappan-morris/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4bfd5a28 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/003-robert-tappan-morris/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Robert Tappan Morris — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2Robert Tappan MorrisTHE CONTRIBUTIONReleased a self-replicating program from MIT in November1988 that reinfected hosts far faster than intended andknocked out a large share of the machines on the internet.First person convicted under the Computer Fraud and AbuseAct. Went on to become an MIT professor and a co-founder ofY Combinator.PROJECTS / DOMAINSWorms · Unix internalsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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In 1998 the crew testified before the US Senateunder their handles and warned that the internet could betaken down in half an hour. Later ran cyber programs atDARPA, worked security at Google and Stripe, and blew thewhistle on Twitter’s security posture in 2022.PROJECTS / DOMAINSVulnerability research · Policy · Password crackingPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Ran from theFBI, was profiled on Unsolved Mysteries, and served time.Reinvented himself as an investigative journalist at Wiredand helped build SecureDrop, the whistleblower system usedby newsrooms worldwide.PROJECTS / DOMAINSPhone phreaking · JournalismPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Organizer ofthe HOPE conferences and a defendant in the DeCSS case,where the courts first wrestled with whether publishingcode is speech.PROJECTS / DOMAINSPublishing · Radio · ActivismPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Ivory paper, coral fracture surfaces and sea-green metal emerge from a charcoal field. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/007-loyd-blankenship/back.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/007-loyd-blankenship/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7aac9692 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/007-loyd-blankenship/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/007-loyd-blankenship/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/007-loyd-blankenship/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2d420c04 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/007-loyd-blankenship/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Loyd Blankenship — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2Loyd BlankenshipTHE CONTRIBUTIONMember of the Legion of Doom who, hours after beingarrested in 1986, wrote the essay that Phrack published asThe Conscience of a Hacker. Later wrote GURPS Cyberpunk forSteve Jackson Games — the manuscript the Secret Serviceseized in a raid that helped spark the founding of the EFF.PROJECTS / DOMAINSWriting · Legion of Doom · Game designPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Ivory paper, coral fracture surfaces and sea-green metal emerge from a charcoal field.Author of the Hacker Manifesto“The Conscience of a Hacker,” written after his arrest007 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/008-jeff-moss/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/008-jeff-moss/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..24122e94 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/008-jeff-moss/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/008-jeff-moss/back.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/008-jeff-moss/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4d1d571a Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/008-jeff-moss/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/008-jeff-moss/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/008-jeff-moss/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..978efb56 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/008-jeff-moss/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Jeff Moss — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2Jeff MossTHE CONTRIBUTIONThrew a going-away party for a friend in Las Vegas in 1993and accidentally founded DEF CON, now the largest hackergathering on earth. Also founded Black Hat, served on theUS Homeland Security Advisory Council, and spent yearstranslating between the underground and the institutionsthat fear it.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCommunity · Conferences · PolicyPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Instead ofpublishing, he organized a secret multi-vendor patch effortand got the whole internet fixed on one coordinated day inJuly 2008. Died in 2021 at 42, and the industry has notstopped talking about him since.PROJECTS / DOMAINSDNS · Protocol research · Coordinated disclosurePROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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His logbooks and homemadetripwires invented network intrusion detection by hand, andThe Cuckoo’s Egg is still the best on-ramp anyone everwrote.PROJECTS / DOMAINSIncident response · Forensics · WritingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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NicheDB: not-found. 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Copper and sea-green routes rise from opposing terminal banks, converge on a lifted mechanical selector, and return beneath the architecture in a great suspended cable loop. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/012-mark-abene/back.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/012-mark-abene/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..609f9e95 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/012-mark-abene/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/012-mark-abene/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/012-mark-abene/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..66a69371 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/012-mark-abene/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Mark Abene — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2Mark AbeneTHE CONTRIBUTIONTeenage authority on telephone switching systems and thepublic face of Masters of Deception. His 1994 prisonsentence was widely read as a message being sent to a wholegeneration; New York magazine had already named him one ofthe city’s smartest people.PROJECTS / DOMAINSTelecom switching · CrewsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Copper and sea-green routes rise from opposing terminal banks, converge on a lifted mechanical selector, and return beneath the architecture in a great suspended cable loop.Masters of DeceptionThe MOD-versus-LOD hacker war012 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/013-susan-headley/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/013-susan-headley/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..36adccfc --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/013-susan-headley/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/013-susan-headley/back.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/013-susan-headley/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..60dc4f7c Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/013-susan-headley/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/013-susan-headley/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/013-susan-headley/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d8f11560 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/013-susan-headley/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Susan Headley — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2Susan HeadleyTHE CONTRIBUTIONRan in the same Los Angeles phreaking circles as Mitnickand Lewis De Payne and specialized in the human layer —pretext calls, trashed printouts, borrowed credentials. Oneof the very few women documented in the earliest scene, andshe walked away from it entirely.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSocial engineering · Phone phreakingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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In 2010 he reported Chelsea Manning tothe authorities after she confided in him — a decision thatsplit the community permanently. Died in 2018.PROJECTS / DOMAINSWeb intrusion · Misconfiguration huntingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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USprosecutors called it the biggest military computer hack ofall time; a decade-long extradition fight ended in 2012when the UK Home Secretary blocked it on human-rightsgrounds.PROJECTS / DOMAINSDefault credentials · Extradition lawPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Sentenced in2000 as the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime inthe US. Died by suicide in 2008 while under investigationin an unrelated case he denied any part in.PROJECTS / DOMAINSGovernment networks · BackdoorsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Spent the following decades turning ad-hoc bugreporting into a process the industry could live with, thenco-founded Veracode to make application security somethingyou can actually buy.PROJECTS / DOMAINSVulnerability research · AppSec · Disclosure policyPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Fought to keep defensiveresearch from being criminalized under the WassenaarArrangement, and founded Luta Security.PROJECTS / DOMAINSBug bounties · Policy · Export controlsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Then builtthe answer: Qubes OS, a desktop that assumes compromise andisolates by compartment.PROJECTS / DOMAINSRootkits · Virtualization · Secure OS designPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Mutated specimens enter a terraced execution maze; an orbital feedback path returns from a newly exposed fault in its coral shell. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/020-michal-zalewski/back.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/020-michal-zalewski/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..92ae308d Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/020-michal-zalewski/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/020-michal-zalewski/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/020-michal-zalewski/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ac181191 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/020-michal-zalewski/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Michał Zalewski — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2Michał ZalewskiTHE CONTRIBUTIONWrote afl, the coverage-guided fuzzer that found thousandsof bugs across the software everyone depends on and resetthe state of the art for everyone else. Author of Silenceon the Wire and The Tangled Web, and a long-time browsersecurity lead at Google.PROJECTS / DOMAINSFuzzing · Browser security · Passive reconPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Mutated specimens enter a terraced execution maze; an orbital feedback path returns from a newly exposed fault in its coral shell.The Fuzzeramerican fuzzy lop and Silence on the Wire020 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/021-solar-designer/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/021-solar-designer/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..850495bd --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/021-solar-designer/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/021-solar-designer/back.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/021-solar-designer/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..57dbc32c Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/021-solar-designer/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/021-solar-designer/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/021-solar-designer/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..71262da7 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/021-solar-designer/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Alexander Peslyak — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2Alexander PeslyakTHE CONTRIBUTIONWrote John the Ripper, still the reference password crackerthree decades on. Founded Openwall, pioneerednon-executable stack patches for Linux, published earlyreturn-into-libc work, and runs the oss-security list wherethe industry argues about disclosure in public.PROJECTS / DOMAINSPassword cracking · Kernel hardening · DisclosurePROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Distinct coral cartridges lock into a common precision carriage across the opening, while an optical survey reveals exposed apertures across the terrain. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/022-hd-moore/back.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/022-hd-moore/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2fb706e5 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/022-hd-moore/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/022-hd-moore/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/022-hd-moore/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9bcac046 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/022-hd-moore/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +HD Moore — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2HD MooreTHE CONTRIBUTIONReleased Metasploit in 2003 and turned exploit developmentfrom scattered one-off code into a shared, modularframework every penetration tester now learns first. Laterran internet-wide scanning projects that mapped just howmuch of the internet is quietly exposed.PROJECTS / DOMAINSExploit development · Internet-wide scanningPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Distinct coral cartridges lock into a common precision carriage across the opening, while an optical survey reveals exposed apertures across the terrain.Creator of MetasploitMaking exploitation a framework, not a one-off022 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/023-barnaby-jack/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/023-barnaby-jack/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1231374b --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/023-barnaby-jack/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/023-barnaby-jack/back.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/023-barnaby-jack/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2fcb4035 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/023-barnaby-jack/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/023-barnaby-jack/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/023-barnaby-jack/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e1645830 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/023-barnaby-jack/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Barnaby Jack — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2Barnaby JackTHE CONTRIBUTIONWalked onto the Black Hat 2010 stage, ran his Jackpottingdemo, and made two ATMs pour out cash in front of the room.Then turned to insulin pumps and pacemakers, showing thatimplanted medical devices could be attacked wirelessly.Died in 2013, days before he was due to present thatresearch.PROJECTS / DOMAINSEmbedded systems · Medical devices · ATMsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Chrysler recalled 1.4 million vehicles.Automotive security became a real discipline overnight.PROJECTS / DOMAINSAutomotive · iOS · Pwn2OwnPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Both went on to build securityteams inside the autonomous-vehicle industry they had justput on notice.PROJECTS / DOMAINSAutomotive · CAN bus · Vehicle networksPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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After his sentence he keptpublishing: SkyJack, OwnStar, KeySweeper, and a long lineof garage-door and car-key radio attacks explained on videofor anyone.PROJECTS / DOMAINSXSS · Hardware · RadioPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Then published PlayStation 3 root keys and wassued by Sony, in a case that became a rallying point forthe right to modify hardware you own. Later foundedcomma.ai and worked on open self-driving.PROJECTS / DOMAINSJailbreaking · Console security · Reverse engineeringPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.027 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/027-george-hotz/front.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/027-george-hotz/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..eb980781 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/027-george-hotz/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/027-george-hotz/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/027-george-hotz/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e3c32d6a --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/027-george-hotz/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +George Hotz — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2George HotzJailbreakerUnlocking the first iPhone and cracking the PS3027 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6890e597 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/back.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..44b1c167 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..04e2200e --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Marcus Hutchins — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2Marcus HutchinsTHE CONTRIBUTIONReversing WannaCry as it tore through hospitals in May2017, he spotted an unregistered domain in the code andbought it, unintentionally triggering the killswitch thathalted the outbreak. Arrested months later over earlierbanking-malware code he had written as a teenager; he pledguilty, was sentenced to time served, and now works inthreat research.PROJECTS / DOMAINSMalware analysis · Reverse engineering · BotnetsPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.028 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/front.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..aa3d0f22 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1263cafa --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Marcus Hutchins — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2Marcus HutchinsThe WannaCry KillswitchStopping a global ransomware outbreak for $10.69028 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a0a31909 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +An exploded instrument of trust: a segmented radio arch, terraced lookup tables, a breached smartcard contact bed, and a folded modular ribbon terminating in an open USB connector. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/back.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5fbf1a1e Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..97463bc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Karsten Nohl — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2Karsten NohlTHE CONTRIBUTIONCracked GSM’s A5/1 encryption with rainbow tables, showedmillions of SIM cards could be hijacked over the air with atext message, broke Mifare smartcards, and with Jakob Lellreleased BadUSB — proof that any USB device’s firmware canbe reprogrammed to lie about what it is.PROJECTS / DOMAINSMobile networks · Smartcards · FirmwarePROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.029 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/front.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bcac70c7 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c2d0d2c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Karsten Nohl — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2Karsten NohlAn exploded instrument of trust: a segmented radio arch, terraced lookup tables, a breached smartcard contact bed, and a folded modular ribbon terminating in an open USB connector.Breaker of RadiosGSM, SIM card and BadUSB research029 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5f71ac11 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/back.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..83e6363e Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d1623bb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Moxie Marlinspike — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2Moxie MarlinspikeTHE CONTRIBUTIONDemonstrated SSLstrip and a run of attacks that exposed howfragile the certificate authority system really was. Thenbuilt Signal and the double-ratchet protocol behind it,which WhatsApp and others adopted — quietly puttingend-to-end encryption in front of billions of people.PROJECTS / DOMAINSTLS attacks · Applied cryptography · Secure messagingPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.030 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/front.png b/public/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..01c77aae Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..10a17582 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Moxie Marlinspike — Open Source Legends v2HACKING LEGENDS / V2Moxie MarlinspikeCrypto for Everyone ElseSSLstrip and the Signal Protocol030 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/index.html b/public/releases/v2/index.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..38385823 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/index.html @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Open Source Legends — v2 proof

Open Source Legends / Edition 2

Review the artwork, original card copy and sourced metadata before activating this edition. Card data · Release manifest

Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman frontRichard Stallman back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds frontLinus Torvalds back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz frontAaron Swartz back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

TJ Holowaychuk

TJ Holowaychuk frontTJ Holowaychuk back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Guido van Rossum

Guido van Rossum frontGuido van Rossum back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Yukihiro Matsumoto frontYukihiro Matsumoto back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Larry Wall

Larry Wall frontLarry Wall back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Brendan Eich

Brendan Eich frontBrendan Eich back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Rasmus Lerdorf

Rasmus Lerdorf frontRasmus Lerdorf back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

David Heinemeier Hansson

David Heinemeier Hansson frontDavid Heinemeier Hansson back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Ryan Dahl

Ryan Dahl frontRyan Dahl back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Evan You

Evan You frontEvan You back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Rich Harris

Rich Harris frontRich Harris back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Jordan Walke

Jordan Walke frontJordan Walke back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Dan Abramov

Dan Abramov frontDan Abramov back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Sebastian McKenzie

Sebastian McKenzie frontSebastian McKenzie back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Isaac Z. Schlueter

Isaac Z. Schlueter frontIsaac Z. Schlueter back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg frontMatt Mullenweg back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Dries Buytaert

Dries Buytaert frontDries Buytaert back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Brian Behlendorf

Brian Behlendorf frontBrian Behlendorf back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Roy Fielding

Roy Fielding frontRoy Fielding back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Eric S. Raymond

Eric S. Raymond frontEric S. Raymond back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Bruce Perens

Bruce Perens frontBruce Perens back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Ian Murdock

Ian Murdock frontIan Murdock back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Mark Shuttleworth

Mark Shuttleworth frontMark Shuttleworth back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Theo de Raadt

Theo de Raadt frontTheo de Raadt back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

D. Richard Hipp

D. Richard Hipp frontD. Richard Hipp back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Fabrice Bellard

Fabrice Bellard frontFabrice Bellard back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Andrew Tridgell

Andrew Tridgell frontAndrew Tridgell back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Bram Moolenaar

Bram Moolenaar frontBram Moolenaar back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Brian Fox

Brian Fox frontBrian Fox back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Werner Koch

Werner Koch frontWerner Koch back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Miguel de Icaza

Miguel de Icaza frontMiguel de Icaza back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: matched

Federico Mena Quintero

Federico Mena Quintero frontFederico Mena Quintero back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: matched

Havoc Pennington

Havoc Pennington frontHavoc Pennington back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Keith Packard

Keith Packard frontKeith Packard back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Lennart Poettering

Lennart Poettering frontLennart Poettering back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: matched

Greg Kroah-Hartman

Greg Kroah-Hartman frontGreg Kroah-Hartman back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Alan Cox

Alan Cox frontAlan Cox back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Chris Lattner

Chris Lattner frontChris Lattner back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Graydon Hoare

Graydon Hoare frontGraydon Hoare back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Steve Klabnik

Steve Klabnik frontSteve Klabnik back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Salvatore Sanfilippo

Salvatore Sanfilippo frontSalvatore Sanfilippo back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Michael Widenius

Michael Widenius frontMichael Widenius back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Brad Fitzpatrick

Brad Fitzpatrick frontBrad Fitzpatrick back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Solomon Hykes

Solomon Hykes frontSolomon Hykes back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Mitchell Hashimoto

Mitchell Hashimoto frontMitchell Hashimoto back

legends · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Kevin Mitnick

Kevin Mitnick frontKevin Mitnick back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

John Draper

John Draper frontJohn Draper back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Robert Tappan Morris

Robert Tappan Morris frontRobert Tappan Morris back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Peiter Zatko

Peiter Zatko frontPeiter Zatko back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Kevin Poulsen

Kevin Poulsen frontKevin Poulsen back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Eric Corley

Eric Corley frontEric Corley back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Loyd Blankenship

Loyd Blankenship frontLoyd Blankenship back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Jeff Moss

Jeff Moss frontJeff Moss back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Dan Kaminsky

Dan Kaminsky frontDan Kaminsky back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Clifford Stoll

Clifford Stoll frontClifford Stoll back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Tsutomu Shimomura

Tsutomu Shimomura frontTsutomu Shimomura back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Mark Abene

Mark Abene frontMark Abene back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Susan Headley

Susan Headley frontSusan Headley back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Adrian Lamo

Adrian Lamo frontAdrian Lamo back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Gary McKinnon

Gary McKinnon frontGary McKinnon back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Jonathan James

Jonathan James frontJonathan James back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Chris Wysopal

Chris Wysopal frontChris Wysopal back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Katie Moussouris

Katie Moussouris frontKatie Moussouris back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Joanna Rutkowska

Joanna Rutkowska frontJoanna Rutkowska back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Michał Zalewski

Michał Zalewski frontMichał Zalewski back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Alexander Peslyak

Alexander Peslyak frontAlexander Peslyak back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

HD Moore

HD Moore frontHD Moore back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Barnaby Jack

Barnaby Jack frontBarnaby Jack back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Charlie Miller

Charlie Miller frontCharlie Miller back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Chris Valasek

Chris Valasek frontChris Valasek back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Samy Kamkar

Samy Kamkar frontSamy Kamkar back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

George Hotz

George Hotz frontGeorge Hotz back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Marcus Hutchins

Marcus Hutchins frontMarcus Hutchins back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Karsten Nohl

Karsten Nohl frontKarsten Nohl back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Moxie Marlinspike

Moxie Marlinspike frontMoxie Marlinspike back

hacking · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Whitfield Diffie

Whitfield Diffie frontWhitfield Diffie back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Martin Hellman

Martin Hellman frontMartin Hellman back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Ron Rivest

Ron Rivest frontRon Rivest back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Adi Shamir

Adi Shamir frontAdi Shamir back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Leonard Adleman

Leonard Adleman frontLeonard Adleman back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Phil Zimmermann

Phil Zimmermann frontPhil Zimmermann back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier frontBruce Schneier back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Paul Kocher

Paul Kocher frontPaul Kocher back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Dorothy E. Denning

Dorothy E. Denning frontDorothy E. Denning back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Gene Spafford

Gene Spafford frontGene Spafford back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Ross Anderson

Ross Anderson frontRoss Anderson back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Matt Blaze

Matt Blaze frontMatt Blaze back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Radia Perlman

Radia Perlman frontRadia Perlman back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Steven M. Bellovin

Steven M. Bellovin frontSteven M. Bellovin back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

William Cheswick

William Cheswick frontWilliam Cheswick back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Marcus J. Ranum

Marcus J. Ranum frontMarcus J. Ranum back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Wietse Venema

Wietse Venema frontWietse Venema back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Dan Farmer

Dan Farmer frontDan Farmer back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Gordon Lyon

Gordon Lyon frontGordon Lyon back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Martin Roesch

Martin Roesch frontMartin Roesch back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Gerald Combs

Gerald Combs frontGerald Combs back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Renaud Deraison

Renaud Deraison frontRenaud Deraison back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Paul Vixie

Paul Vixie frontPaul Vixie back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Niels Provos

Niels Provos frontNiels Provos back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Jeremiah Grossman

Jeremiah Grossman frontJeremiah Grossman back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Robert Hansen

Robert Hansen frontRobert Hansen back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Mark Curphey

Mark Curphey frontMark Curphey back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Jeff Williams

Jeff Williams frontJeff Williams back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Gary McGraw

Gary McGraw frontGary McGraw back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Michael Howard

Michael Howard frontMichael Howard back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Adam Shostack

Adam Shostack frontAdam Shostack back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Ivan Ristić

Ivan Ristić frontIvan Ristić back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Mark Dowd

Mark Dowd frontMark Dowd back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Thomas Dullien

Thomas Dullien frontThomas Dullien back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Alex Sotirov

Alex Sotirov frontAlex Sotirov back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Thomas Ptacek

Thomas Ptacek frontThomas Ptacek back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Matthew D. Green

Matthew D. Green frontMatthew D. Green back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

J. Alex Halderman

J. Alex Halderman frontJ. Alex Halderman back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Nadia Heninger

Nadia Heninger frontNadia Heninger back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Troy Hunt

Troy Hunt frontTroy Hunt back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Window Snyder

Window Snyder frontWindow Snyder back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Heather Adkins

Heather Adkins frontHeather Adkins back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Parisa Tabriz

Parisa Tabriz frontParisa Tabriz back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Alex Stamos

Alex Stamos frontAlex Stamos back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Dan Geer

Dan Geer frontDan Geer back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Kevin Mandia

Kevin Mandia frontKevin Mandia back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Mikko Hyppönen

Mikko Hyppönen frontMikko Hyppönen back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Robert M. Lee

Robert M. Lee frontRobert M. Lee back

security · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Lesley Carhart

Lesley Carhart frontLesley Carhart back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Katie Nickels

Katie Nickels frontKatie Nickels back

security · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton frontGeoffrey Hinton back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Yann LeCun

Yann LeCun frontYann LeCun back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio frontYoshua Bengio back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Jürgen Schmidhuber

Jürgen Schmidhuber frontJürgen Schmidhuber back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Richard S. Sutton

Richard S. Sutton frontRichard S. Sutton back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Andrew Barto

Andrew Barto frontAndrew Barto back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Judea Pearl

Judea Pearl frontJudea Pearl back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Fei-Fei Li

Fei-Fei Li frontFei-Fei Li back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Ashish Vaswani

Ashish Vaswani frontAshish Vaswani back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Noam Shazeer

Noam Shazeer frontNoam Shazeer back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Łukasz Kaiser

Łukasz Kaiser frontŁukasz Kaiser back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Aidan Gomez

Aidan Gomez frontAidan Gomez back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Alex Krizhevsky

Alex Krizhevsky frontAlex Krizhevsky back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever frontIlya Sutskever back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Ian Goodfellow

Ian Goodfellow frontIan Goodfellow back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Tri Dao

Tri Dao frontTri Dao back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Albert Gu

Albert Gu frontAlbert Gu back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Alec Radford

Alec Radford frontAlec Radford back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

David Silver

David Silver frontDavid Silver back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Oriol Vinyals

Oriol Vinyals frontOriol Vinyals back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

John Jumper

John Jumper frontJohn Jumper back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Shane Legg

Shane Legg frontShane Legg back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis frontDemis Hassabis back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Pieter Abbeel

Pieter Abbeel frontPieter Abbeel back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy frontAndrej Karpathy back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Jeff Dean

Jeff Dean frontJeff Dean back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Rajat Monga

Rajat Monga frontRajat Monga back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Soumith Chintala

Soumith Chintala frontSoumith Chintala back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Adam Paszke

Adam Paszke frontAdam Paszke back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Tianqi Chen

Tianqi Chen frontTianqi Chen back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Yangqing Jia

Yangqing Jia frontYangqing Jia back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

François Chollet

François Chollet frontFrançois Chollet back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Thomas Wolf

Thomas Wolf frontThomas Wolf back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Clément Delangue

Clément Delangue frontClément Delangue back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Georgi Gerganov

Georgi Gerganov frontGeorgi Gerganov back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Tim Dettmers

Tim Dettmers frontTim Dettmers back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Jeremy Howard

Jeremy Howard frontJeremy Howard back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: unconfirmed

Stella Biderman

Stella Biderman frontStella Biderman back

gods · SVG · NicheDB: not-found

Justine Tunney

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Masayoshi Son

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Michael Dell

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Lou Gerstner

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Bob Young

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Diane Greene

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Eric Schmidt

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Mark Zuckerberg

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Matthew Prince

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Patrick Collison

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Tim Cook

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Pat Gelsinger

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Satya Nadella

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Sid Sijbrandij

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Jay Kreps

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Sundar Pichai

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Guillermo Rauch

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Ali Ghodsi

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Nat Friedman

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Sam Altman

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His contributions foster a globalopen source community, driving innovation and collaborationacross industries.PROJECTS / DOMAINSLinux Kernel · GitPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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He significantly contributed to variousprojects that shaped the web, advocating for open accessand civic engagement. His legacy inspires many in the techcommunity.PROJECTS / DOMAINSRSS · Creative Commons · web.py · MarkdownPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Branching mint streams pass through four independent architectural membranes, while a coral return channel threads a sequence of small measuring chambers.Node.js ContributorCreator of popular Node.js modules004 / ICONIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/005-guido-van-rossum/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/005-guido-van-rossum/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..87ebd732 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/005-guido-van-rossum/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +The open grammarA sculptural interpretation of the creation of Python. Asymmetric, indented ribbons unfold from a luminous open center, forming an intricate architectural bloom. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/005-guido-van-rossum/back.png b/public/releases/v2/legends/005-guido-van-rossum/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9b3c8ae5 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/legends/005-guido-van-rossum/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/005-guido-van-rossum/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/005-guido-van-rossum/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..73a9b7f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/005-guido-van-rossum/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Guido van Rossum — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Guido van RossumTHE CONTRIBUTIONGuido van Rossum is a pivotal figure in programming, knownfor creating Python. His leadership as BDFL shaped thelanguage's development and community, influencing countlessdevelopers worldwide.PROJECTS / DOMAINSPythonPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Asymmetric, indented ribbons unfold from a luminous open center, forming an intricate architectural bloom.Creator of the Python LanguageInventor of Python programming language005 / ICONIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/006-yukihiro-matsumoto/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/006-yukihiro-matsumoto/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e1eb9fe5 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/006-yukihiro-matsumoto/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/006-yukihiro-matsumoto/back.png b/public/releases/v2/legends/006-yukihiro-matsumoto/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1fede285 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/legends/006-yukihiro-matsumoto/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/006-yukihiro-matsumoto/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/006-yukihiro-matsumoto/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f9b3a8d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/006-yukihiro-matsumoto/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Yukihiro Matsumoto — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Yukihiro MatsumotoTHE CONTRIBUTIONYukihiro Matsumoto, known as Matz, is the creator of Ruby.He emphasizes simplicity and productivity in programming.His work inspires a vibrant community that valuescreativity and collaboration.PROJECTS / DOMAINSRuby · Ruby on Rails · RubyGemsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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He co-founded Mozilla, championingopen-source principles and fostering innovation in webbrowsers. His work continues to influence how we interactwith the internet today.PROJECTS / DOMAINSJavaScript · Mozilla · FirefoxPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Asa co-founder of Basecamp, he champions remote work andefficient project management.PROJECTS / DOMAINSRuby on Rails · Basecamp · HEXOPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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His work emphasizesefficiency and scalability, shaping modern web applicationsand influencing countless developers worldwide.PROJECTS / DOMAINSNode.js · DenoPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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His framework emphasizes simplicityand flexibility, making it popular among developers. Heactively engages with the community, continuously enhancingthe framework's capabilities.PROJECTS / DOMAINSVue.js · Vue Router · VuexPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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His work on Svelterevolutionizes how developers build user interfaces.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSvelte · Sapper · RollupPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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He creates Babel, a tool that allowsdevelopers to use the latest JavaScript features whileensuring compatibility with older browsers.PROJECTS / DOMAINSBabel · Babel-Polyfill · Babel-CLIPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Schlueter — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Isaac Z. SchlueterTHE CONTRIBUTIONIsaac Z. Schlueter revolutionizes JavaScript developmentwith npm, the world's largest software registry. His workfosters collaboration and innovation, making it easier fordevelopers to share and reuse code.PROJECTS / DOMAINSnpm · Node.jsPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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NicheDB: not-found. 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Hisleadership in developing the Apache HTTP Server hassignificantly shaped the web landscape, promotingcollaboration and innovation in software development.PROJECTS / DOMAINSApache HTTP Server · Apache Software Foundation · Mod_sslPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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His work on HTTP and the ApacheHTTP Server has profoundly influenced how modern webapplications are designed and interact.PROJECTS / DOMAINSApache HTTP Server · REST · HTTP/1.1PROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Raymond — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Eric S. RaymondTHE CONTRIBUTIONEric S. Raymond is a prominent figure in the open sourcemovement. He advocates for transparency in softwaredevelopment and has authored influential works that shapemodern programming practices.PROJECTS / DOMAINSFetchmail · The Cathedral and the Bazaar · Open Source InitiativePROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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RaymondOpen Source AdvocateAuthor of 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar'022 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/023-bruce-perens/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/023-bruce-perens/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..13430582 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/023-bruce-perens/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +A common, open interfaceAn exploded architectural gauge carries flowing, interchangeable modules through shared apertures. 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His advocacy continues to influencesoftware development worldwide.PROJECTS / DOMAINSOpen Source Definition · Debian Project · Linux Standards BasePROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Open joints, exposed sections, and compatible components evoke the Open Source Definition, Debian, and common software standards.Co-founder of Open Source InitiativeAdvocate for open source software023 / ICONIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/024-ian-murdock/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/024-ian-murdock/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e019ce55 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/024-ian-murdock/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +A common foundationAn exploded architectural labyrinth assembled from interlocking ivory modules. Mint-lit passages converge beneath an open, elevated communal courtyard, while layered foundation cassettes separate into new assemblies. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/024-ian-murdock/back.png b/public/releases/v2/legends/024-ian-murdock/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ef5d01d3 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/legends/024-ian-murdock/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/024-ian-murdock/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/024-ian-murdock/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b8820268 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/024-ian-murdock/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Ian Murdock — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Ian MurdockTHE CONTRIBUTIONIan Murdock is a pivotal figure in open source, known forfounding the Debian Project. His vision for a collaborativeoperating system has influenced countless distributions andfostered a strong community ethos.PROJECTS / DOMAINSDebian · Progeny Linux SystemsPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Mint-lit passages converge beneath an open, elevated communal courtyard, while layered foundation cassettes separate into new assemblies.Founder of Debian ProjectCreating the Debian Linux distribution024 / ICONIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/025-mark-shuttleworth/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/025-mark-shuttleworth/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fe777f58 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/025-mark-shuttleworth/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/025-mark-shuttleworth/back.png b/public/releases/v2/legends/025-mark-shuttleworth/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9dbb5f7d Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/legends/025-mark-shuttleworth/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/025-mark-shuttleworth/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/025-mark-shuttleworth/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..916db65e --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/025-mark-shuttleworth/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Mark Shuttleworth — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Mark ShuttleworthTHE CONTRIBUTIONMark Shuttleworth is a visionary entrepreneur andphilanthropist. He founded Ubuntu, which revolutionizedLinux accessibility. His commitment to open source fostersinnovation and community engagement worldwide.PROJECTS / DOMAINSUbuntu · Canonical Ltd.PROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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He is aprominent figure in the open-source community.PROJECTS / DOMAINSOpenBSD · OpenSSH · LibreSSLPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Richard Hipp — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2D. Richard HippTHE CONTRIBUTIOND. Richard Hipp is a prominent software developer known forcreating SQLite, a lightweight database widely used inapplications. His work on Fossil and Tcl further showcaseshis versatility and impact in the open-source community.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSQLite · Tcl · FossilPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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His projects, especially QEMUand FFmpeg, have significantly influenced the techlandscape.PROJECTS / DOMAINSQEMU · FFmpeg · TinyCCPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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His work enablesseamless file sharing across different operating systems,making him a vital contributor to the open-sourcecommunity.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSamba · rsync · CIFSPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Indented ivory line-slugs form an editable buffer. A monumental jade cursor lifts a selected coral passage, while three small unmarked controls connect to direct and returning mechanical paths exposed beneath the surface. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/030-bram-moolenaar/back.png b/public/releases/v2/legends/030-bram-moolenaar/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ffc60a6f Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/legends/030-bram-moolenaar/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/030-bram-moolenaar/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/030-bram-moolenaar/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..49a284bb --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/030-bram-moolenaar/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Bram Moolenaar — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Bram MoolenaarTHE CONTRIBUTIONBram Moolenaar is a prominent figure in softwaredevelopment, known for creating Vim, a highly configurabletext editor. His work emphasizes efficiency andproductivity, making Vim a staple among programmersworldwide.PROJECTS / DOMAINSVim · Gvim · Vim.orgPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.030 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/030-bram-moolenaar/front.png b/public/releases/v2/legends/030-bram-moolenaar/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b0af2947 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/legends/030-bram-moolenaar/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/030-bram-moolenaar/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/030-bram-moolenaar/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bb08a4ad --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/030-bram-moolenaar/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Bram Moolenaar — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Bram MoolenaarA suspended cross-section of a precision editing instrument. Indented ivory line-slugs form an editable buffer. A monumental jade cursor lifts a selected coral passage, while three small unmarked controls connect to direct and returning mechanical paths exposed beneath the surface.Creator of Vim EditorDeveloping the Vim text editor030 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/031-brian-fox/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/031-brian-fox/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..25b82a13 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/031-brian-fox/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/031-brian-fox/back.png b/public/releases/v2/legends/031-brian-fox/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f99b162c Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/legends/031-brian-fox/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/031-brian-fox/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/031-brian-fox/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1318d1d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/031-brian-fox/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Brian Fox — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Brian FoxTHE CONTRIBUTIONBrian Fox is a pivotal figure in the open source community,known for creating GNU Bash, a widely used command-lineshell. His work has significantly influenced thedevelopment of free software and the GNU Project, promotingsoftware freedom.PROJECTS / DOMAINSGNU Bash · GNU Project · Free Software FoundationPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Opaque shutters surround the private interior, while a detached precision plate carries the exact negative of its asymmetric stem. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/032-werner-koch/back.png b/public/releases/v2/legends/032-werner-koch/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2e6bd3ca Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/legends/032-werner-koch/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/032-werner-koch/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/032-werner-koch/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..35e81c7e --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/032-werner-koch/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Werner Koch — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Werner KochTHE CONTRIBUTIONWerner Koch is a pivotal figure in free software, known forhis work on GnuPG. His contributions enhance digitalsecurity and privacy for users worldwide. He activelypromotes free software principles through his leadershiproles.PROJECTS / DOMAINSGNU Privacy Guard · Free Software Foundation EuropePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Opaque shutters surround the private interior, while a detached precision plate carries the exact negative of its asymmetric stem.Principal Author of GnuPGCreating the GNU Privacy Guard032 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/033-miguel-de-icaza/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/033-miguel-de-icaza/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..20e4f622 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/033-miguel-de-icaza/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/033-miguel-de-icaza/back.png b/public/releases/v2/legends/033-miguel-de-icaza/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b7685731 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/legends/033-miguel-de-icaza/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/033-miguel-de-icaza/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/033-miguel-de-icaza/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a14bd6b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/033-miguel-de-icaza/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Miguel de Icaza — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Miguel de IcazaTHE CONTRIBUTIONMiguel de Icaza is a key figure in free software, drivinginnovation with GNOME and Mono. His work empowersdevelopers and enhances user experiences across platforms.PROJECTS / DOMAINSGNOME · Mono · XamarinPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: matched. 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Floating workspace panes gather around a mint-green shell, while a continuous curved surface joins the open upper workspace to an orderly bank of tactile controls below. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/034-federico-mena-quintero/back.png b/public/releases/v2/legends/034-federico-mena-quintero/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fc274ff7 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/legends/034-federico-mena-quintero/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/034-federico-mena-quintero/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/034-federico-mena-quintero/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fb1e7d76 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/034-federico-mena-quintero/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Federico Mena Quintero — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Federico Mena QuinteroTHE CONTRIBUTIONFederico Mena Quintero is a pivotal figure in open-sourcesoftware, known for co-creating the GNOME desktopenvironment. His work enhances user experience acrossvarious Linux distributions, making technology accessibleand user-friendly.PROJECTS / DOMAINSGNOME · GNOME ShellPROVENANCE5 references. NicheDB: matched. 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Floating workspace panes gather around a mint-green shell, while a continuous curved surface joins the open upper workspace to an orderly bank of tactile controls below.Co-Creator of GNOMEDeveloping the GNOME desktop environment034 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/035-havoc-pennington/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/035-havoc-pennington/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7e364810 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/035-havoc-pennington/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/035-havoc-pennington/back.png b/public/releases/v2/legends/035-havoc-pennington/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..01bea494 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/legends/035-havoc-pennington/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/035-havoc-pennington/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/035-havoc-pennington/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fc27947b --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/035-havoc-pennington/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Havoc Pennington — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Havoc PenningtonTHE CONTRIBUTIONHavoc Pennington drives innovation in desktop environments,enhancing user experience with GNOME and D-Bus. His worksupports seamless communication between applications,making software more accessible and efficient.PROJECTS / DOMAINSHAL · GNOME · Metacity · D-BusPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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He revolutionizes how services are managed withsystemd, impacting boot processes and service managementacross distributions. His work on audio and servicediscovery further enhances user experience.PROJECTS / DOMAINSsystemd · PulseAudio · AvahiPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: matched. 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Hiswork on driver backports and Ksplice enhances systemreliability, making him a respected leader in the opensource community.PROJECTS / DOMAINSLinux Kernel · Driver Backports · KsplicePROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Mint network streams pass through a coral filtering comb, cross a laminated central instrument, and emerge through a lifted release shell. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/039-alan-cox/back.png b/public/releases/v2/legends/039-alan-cox/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7c8b73d8 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/legends/039-alan-cox/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/039-alan-cox/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/039-alan-cox/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b79453b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/039-alan-cox/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Alan Cox — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Alan CoxTHE CONTRIBUTIONAlan Cox is a prominent figure in the Linux community,known for his extensive contributions to the Linux kernel.He plays a crucial role in maintaining kernel releases andenhancing networking capabilities, solidifying his legacyin open source software.PROJECTS / DOMAINSLinux Kernel · Netfilter · Red HatPROVENANCE1 references. 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His work on LLVMrevolutionizes how software is compiled, while Swift hastransformed iOS development, making it more accessible andefficient.PROJECTS / DOMAINSLLVM · Swift · ClangPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Independent mint and coral passages thread through insulated corridors and beneath bridges toward a luminous hollow chamber. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/041-graydon-hoare/back.png b/public/releases/v2/legends/041-graydon-hoare/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2ab126e6 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/legends/041-graydon-hoare/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/041-graydon-hoare/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/041-graydon-hoare/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..aaa28165 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/041-graydon-hoare/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Graydon Hoare — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Graydon HoareTHE CONTRIBUTIONGraydon Hoare is a prominent software engineer known forcreating Rust. His work emphasizes safety and concurrency,making a significant impact on modern programmingpractices. He continues to influence the open sourcecommunity.PROJECTS / DOMAINSRust · ServoPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.041 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/041-graydon-hoare/front.png b/public/releases/v2/legends/041-graydon-hoare/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d9435e34 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/legends/041-graydon-hoare/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/041-graydon-hoare/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/041-graydon-hoare/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..178b574a --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/041-graydon-hoare/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Graydon Hoare — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Graydon HoareThe protected passageAn intricate architectural labyrinth, lifted above a dark foundation. Independent mint and coral passages thread through insulated corridors and beneath bridges toward a luminous hollow chamber.Creator of the Rust LanguageDeveloping the Rust programming language041 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/042-steve-klabnik/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/042-steve-klabnik/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..66a5c9e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/042-steve-klabnik/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/042-steve-klabnik/back.png b/public/releases/v2/legends/042-steve-klabnik/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0f4977a9 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/legends/042-steve-klabnik/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/legends/042-steve-klabnik/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/legends/042-steve-klabnik/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6fb26534 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/legends/042-steve-klabnik/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Steve Klabnik — Open Source Legends v2OPEN SOURCE LEGENDS / V2Steve KlabnikTHE CONTRIBUTIONSteve Klabnik is a prominent figure in the Rust community,known for his advocacy of open source software. He plays acrucial role in enhancing Rust's documentation andfostering a welcoming environment for developers.PROJECTS / DOMAINSRust · Cargo · DocumentationPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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His workhas revolutionized data handling and caching in modernapplications, making him a key figure in open sourcesoftware.PROJECTS / DOMAINSRedis · AntirezPROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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His commitmentto community-driven development continues through MariaDB,ensuring robust alternatives in database technology.PROJECTS / DOMAINSMySQL · MariaDB · MaxScalePROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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He creates impactful projects like LiveJournaland Memcached, which have influenced web development andcommunity building.PROJECTS / DOMAINSLiveJournal · Memcached · Go Programming LanguagePROVENANCE1 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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NicheDB: not-found. 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Denning — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Dorothy E. DenningTHE CONTRIBUTIONPublished “An Intrusion-Detection Model” in 1987, the paperthat framed detection as statistical deviation from aprofile of normal behaviour and gave the entire monitoringindustry its foundation. Also wrote Cryptography and DataSecurity, worked on database security and lattice-basedinformation flow, and was one of the few academics engagingseriously with both sides of the Clipper chip debate.PROJECTS / DOMAINSIntrusion detection · Information warfare · Crypto policyPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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DenningFounder of Intrusion DetectionThe 1987 intrusion-detection model every SIEM still runs on009 / ICONIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/010-gene-spafford/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/010-gene-spafford/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..600f54be --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/010-gene-spafford/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Integrity observatoryA luminous branching volume rises from a cutaway academic rotunda. Tensioned inspection filaments intercept a warm anomalous strand, which is separated into specimens above an open evidence tray. Paired contours, exposed strata, and translucent internal channels evoke systems integrity, forensic analysis, and security education. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/010-gene-spafford/back.png b/public/releases/v2/security/010-gene-spafford/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fe06c59f Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/security/010-gene-spafford/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/010-gene-spafford/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/010-gene-spafford/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..65a028e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/010-gene-spafford/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Gene Spafford — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Gene SpaffordTHE CONTRIBUTIONProduced one of the first detailed technical analyses ofthe 1988 Morris worm while the internet was still smoking,co-wrote Practical UNIX and Internet Security with SimsonGarfinkel, co-created Tripwire, and founded Purdue’s COASTlab and then CERIAS — for years the largest academicsecurity centre in the US. Has advised more federal panelsthan most people have attended.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSystems security · Forensics · Security educationPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Paired contours, exposed strata, and translucent internal channels evoke systems integrity, forensic analysis, and security education.The Academy’s AnchorThe Morris worm analysis, Practical UNIX Security, and CERIAS010 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8a41f9e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/back.png b/public/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a69fbd7f Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a6b03f73 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Ross Anderson — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Ross AndersonTHE CONTRIBUTIONCambridge professor who wrote Security Engineering, theclosest thing the field has to a canonical text, and gaveaway earlier editions free online. Founded thesecurity-economics research programme with the observationthat systems fail because the people who could fix them arenot the people who bear the loss. Spent years demonstratingthat bank chip-and-PIN systems were weaker than the bankstold courts they were. Died in 2024.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSecurity engineering · Security economics · Banking systemsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. Sources and metadata accompany thiscard in cards.json.011 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/front.png b/public/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5ba82192 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2d64cf2f --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Ross Anderson — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Ross AndersonAuthor of Security EngineeringThe textbook, and the economics of why security fails011 / ICONIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..60a777ba --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/back.png b/public/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..71bac804 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..98ed9487 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Matt Blaze — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Matt BlazeTHE CONTRIBUTIONFound the protocol flaw in the NSA’s Clipper chip escrowscheme in 1994 and published it, which did more to endmandated key escrow than any amount of lobbying. Later ledstate-commissioned source reviews of US voting systems,published work on the vulnerabilities of master-keyedphysical locks and wiretap systems, and became a law-schoolprofessor arguing the same points to a different audience.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCryptography · Election security · Physical securityPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. Sources and metadata accompany thiscard in cards.json.012 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/front.png b/public/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ea6cb508 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0e399af9 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Matt Blaze — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Matt BlazeThe Clipper Chip BreakerKilling key escrow, then auditing the voting machines012 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/013-radia-perlman/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/013-radia-perlman/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..59f14d37 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/013-radia-perlman/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/013-radia-perlman/back.png b/public/releases/v2/security/013-radia-perlman/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..892f564a Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/security/013-radia-perlman/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/013-radia-perlman/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/013-radia-perlman/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bb075b2c --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/013-radia-perlman/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Radia Perlman — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Radia PerlmanTHE CONTRIBUTIONInvented the spanning-tree protocol that made large bridgedEthernets possible, and did the early work on routingprotocols designed to keep functioning when a participatingnode is actively hostile rather than merely broken.Co-wrote Network Security: Private Communication in aPublic World, and designed the “ephemerizer” approach tomaking data reliably expire.PROJECTS / DOMAINSNetwork protocols · PKI · Secure deletionPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Bellovin — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Steven M. BellovinTHE CONTRIBUTIONWrote the 1989 paper cataloguing the security problems inTCP/IP — sequence-number prediction, source routing, DNSspoofing — years before anyone was exploiting them atscale. Co-authored Firewalls and Internet Security withCheswick, co-invented encrypted key exchange, was a Usenetco-creator, and served as chief technologist at the FTC andon the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.PROJECTS / DOMAINSNetwork security · Protocol design · PolicyPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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BellovinThe Protocol ScepticSecurity Problems in the TCP/IP Protocol Suite, and the firewallbook014 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/015-william-cheswick/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/015-william-cheswick/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..83d92186 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/015-william-cheswick/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/015-william-cheswick/back.png b/public/releases/v2/security/015-william-cheswick/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0ac06ed4 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/security/015-william-cheswick/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/015-william-cheswick/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/015-william-cheswick/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9e760dc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/015-william-cheswick/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +William Cheswick — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2William CheswickTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-wrote the 1994 book that taught the industry what afirewall was and how to reason about a perimeter. “AnEvening with Berferd” documented him feeding a liveintruder a fake environment for months and writing downeverything, which is the honeypot genre’s founding text.Later ran the Internet Mapping Project at Bell Labs.PROJECTS / DOMAINSFirewalls · Honeypots · Internet mappingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Ranum — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Marcus J. RanumTHE CONTRIBUTIONBuilt DEC SEAL, generally credited as the first commercialfirewall product, then the TIS Firewall Toolkit andGauntlet — the code most early internet perimeters wereactually made of. Ran whitehouse.gov’s first email server.Has spent the decades since publicly arguing that most ofwhat the industry sells does not work, which has agedbetter than the products did.PROJECTS / DOMAINSFirewalls · Proxies · LoggingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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RanumBuilder of the First Commercial FirewallDEC SEAL, the TIS toolkit, and thirty years of contrarianism016 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/017-wietse-venema/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/017-wietse-venema/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e6bc39c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/017-wietse-venema/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/017-wietse-venema/back.png b/public/releases/v2/security/017-wietse-venema/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2d506a90 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/security/017-wietse-venema/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/017-wietse-venema/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/017-wietse-venema/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a685a51f --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/017-wietse-venema/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Wietse Venema — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Wietse VenemaTHE CONTRIBUTIONWrote TCP Wrapper, which for years was the access controlon a very large share of Unix hosts on the internet, andPostfix, a mail server written from the start aroundprivilege separation. Co-wrote SATAN with Dan Farmer andlater the Coroner’s Toolkit and Forensic Discovery, givingincident responders their first real open tooling.PROJECTS / DOMAINSHost security · Mail security · ForensicsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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The press predicted the end of the internet; SGIfired him over it; the security scanner became a permanentproduct category. Later co-wrote Forensic Discovery.PROJECTS / DOMAINSVulnerability scanning · Forensics · Host auditingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Runs seclists.org, hosting theBugtraq and Full Disclosure archives that are the field’sinstitutional memory, and fought MPAA and studio takedownattempts over the tool. Nmap is the first command mostdefenders learn.PROJECTS / DOMAINSNetwork scanning · OS fingerprinting · Open sourcePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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NicheDB: not-found. 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It is the default answer to “what isactually on the wire” for network engineers and incidentresponders alike.PROJECTS / DOMAINSPacket analysis · Protocol dissection · Open sourcePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Co-founded Tenable Network Securityaround it in 2002 and took the product closed-source in2005, a decision the community argued about for years.Vulnerability management as a routine operational practicelargely grew out of that codebase.PROJECTS / DOMAINSVulnerability management · Scanning · Product securityPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Founded the first anti-spam DNSBL, ran theInternet Software Consortium, operates F-root, andco-founded Farsight Security around passive DNS. InternetHall of Fame, 2014.PROJECTS / DOMAINSDNS · Anti-abuse · Internet infrastructurePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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At Google he led the SafeBrowsing malware research that put interstitial warnings infront of drive-by download sites, and co-authored thepapers that measured how large that problem actually was.PROJECTS / DOMAINSHoneypots · Password hashing · Web malwarePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Co-founded the WebApplication Security Consortium, and co-authored XSSAttacks: Cross Site Scripting Exploits and Defense in 2007— the book that turned cross-site scripting from acuriosity into a class of bug developers were expected toknow.PROJECTS / DOMAINSWeb application security · Cross-site scripting · Vulnerability dataPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Later founded SourceClear on softwarecomposition analysis and has kept publicly pushing OWASP tostay relevant to modern supply-chain risk.PROJECTS / DOMAINSApplication security · Open standards · Supply chainPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Co-foundedAspect Security and then Contrast Security, arguing forinstrumentation inside the running application rather thanscanning it from outside.PROJECTS / DOMAINSApplication security · Runtime protection · StandardsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Cyan reinforcement and keyed joints belong to the structure itself. Suspended mechanical witnesses measure the built span. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/029-gary-mcgraw/back.png b/public/releases/v2/security/029-gary-mcgraw/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..98bff603 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/security/029-gary-mcgraw/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/029-gary-mcgraw/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/029-gary-mcgraw/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..853a2981 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/029-gary-mcgraw/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Gary McGraw — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Gary McGrawTHE CONTRIBUTIONWrote Building Secure Software, Exploiting Software andSoftware Security, making the case that you cannot testdefects out of a system you designed insecurely. Co-createdBSIMM, which measures what security programmes actually dorather than what a standard says they should, and has run along-standing interview series documenting the field’s ownhistory.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSoftware security · Secure design · MeasurementPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Suspended mechanical witnesses measure the built span.Building Security InSoftware security as a discipline, and BSIMM029 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/030-michael-howard/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/030-michael-howard/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d5fbdedb --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/030-michael-howard/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/030-michael-howard/back.png b/public/releases/v2/security/030-michael-howard/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..76fd87ed Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/security/030-michael-howard/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/030-michael-howard/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/030-michael-howard/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dc21a081 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/030-michael-howard/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Michael Howard — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Michael HowardTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-wrote Writing Secure Code, which Bill Gates orderedWindows engineers to read during the 2002 TrustworthyComputing halt, and helped build the Security DevelopmentLifecycle that came out of it — threat modelling, bannedAPIs, fuzzing and a final security review before ship. TheSDL became the template most large software organisationscopied.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSecure development · SDL · Threat modellingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Served on theCVE editorial board and co-wrote The New School ofInformation Security on learning from breach data.PROJECTS / DOMAINSThreat modelling · Privacy · Security designPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Then built SSL Labs, whose A-to-Fgrade for a server’s TLS configuration turned an obscureops detail into something executives asked about, and wroteBulletproof TLS and PKI as the manual for fixing the grade.PROJECTS / DOMAINSTLS · Web application firewalls · MeasurementPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Found deep bugs in Sendmail, OpenSSHand Flash while at ISS X-Force and IBM, and founded AzimuthSecurity. His work is why a generation of auditors knowwhat to look for in a parser.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCode auditing · Memory corruption · Exploit mitigationPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Later worked in Project Zero and wrote the “weirdmachines” framing that treats exploitation as programmingan unintended state machine inside the target.PROJECTS / DOMAINSReverse engineering · Patch analysis · Exploit theoryPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Co-foundedTrail of Bits.PROJECTS / DOMAINSPKI · Exploit mitigation · Browser securityPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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NicheDB: not-found. 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Green — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Matthew D. GreenTHE CONTRIBUTIONJohns Hopkins cryptographer who co-led the Open CryptoAudit Project’s review of TrueCrypt, contributed to theanalysis of Dual_EC_DRBG and the RSA BSAFE backdoor, andworked on the attacks behind Logjam and DROWN. His blog isthe standard place the rest of the industry goes to findout how badly a new crypto story is being reported.PROJECTS / DOMAINSApplied cryptography · Protocol analysis · Public explanationPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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GreenThe Cryptography AuditorTrueCrypt audit, and explaining broken crypto in public037 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/038-j-alex-halderman/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/038-j-alex-halderman/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fddf5cf4 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/038-j-alex-halderman/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/038-j-alex-halderman/back.png b/public/releases/v2/security/038-j-alex-halderman/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e4d66d21 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/security/038-j-alex-halderman/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/038-j-alex-halderman/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/038-j-alex-halderman/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f158ab3f --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/038-j-alex-halderman/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +J. Alex Halderman — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2J. Alex HaldermanTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-authored the cold boot attack paper showing DRAM retainskeys after power off, then spent a career demonstrating —in court and in front of legislatures — that deployedvoting machines could be reprogrammed. Co-founded theInternet Security Research Group behind Let’s Encrypt, andco-authored the ZMap internet-wide scanner and the Logjamand FREAK results.PROJECTS / DOMAINSElection security · Measurement · PKIPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Alex HaldermanThe Voting Machine AuditorCold boot attacks, election security, and Let’s Encrypt038 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/039-nadia-heninger/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/039-nadia-heninger/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0f04cfb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/039-nadia-heninger/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/039-nadia-heninger/back.png b/public/releases/v2/security/039-nadia-heninger/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5cfcc73e Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/security/039-nadia-heninger/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/039-nadia-heninger/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/039-nadia-heninger/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0f563b1d --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/039-nadia-heninger/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Nadia Heninger — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Nadia HeningerTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-authored “Mining Your Ps and Qs”, which scanned thewhole IPv4 internet and found that a meaningful share ofTLS and SSH keys shared factors because embedded devicesgenerated them without entropy — and then factored them.Followed it with Logjam, DROWN and FREAK, a body of workwhose method is: measure what is actually deployed, thenbreak the weak part.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCryptanalysis · Internet measurement · Key generationPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Runs it as a publicgood rather than a product.PROJECTS / DOMAINSBreach data · Password security · Public awarenessPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Founded Thistle Technologies in 2020 tobring update infrastructure to embedded devices.PROJECTS / DOMAINSProduct security · Threat modelling · Device securityPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Co-authored Building Secure andReliable Systems, and has served on US federalcybersecurity advisory bodies.PROJECTS / DOMAINSIncident response · Enterprise defence · ReliabilityPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Ledthe multi-year project to mark plain HTTP as “Not secure”in the world’s most-used browser, which more than anythingelse moved the web to encryption by default, and pushedProject Zero’s 90-day disclosure deadline as anindustry-wide forcing function.PROJECTS / DOMAINSBrowser security · HTTPS adoption · Security engineeringPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Publiclychallenged the NSA director on encryption backdoors,founded the Stanford Internet Observatory, and co-foundediSEC Partners and later Krebs Stamos Group.PROJECTS / DOMAINSEnterprise security · Platform abuse · DisinformationPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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A vermilion separation propagates through the repeated structure, while a blue orbital span establishes an independent path. An editorial construction about monoculture, concentrated risk, and dissent. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/045-dan-geer/back.png b/public/releases/v2/security/045-dan-geer/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0d4ea2e9 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/security/045-dan-geer/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/045-dan-geer/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/045-dan-geer/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d557922e --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/045-dan-geer/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Dan Geer — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Dan GeerTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-authored the 2003 CCIA report arguing that monoculturein operating systems was itself a national security risk,and was fired by @stake, then a Microsoft consultancy, theday it was published. Went on to serve as chief informationsecurity officer of In-Q-Tel and to give a run of Black Hatand USENIX keynotes that are still the most quotedlong-form arguments about security policy the field hasproduced.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSecurity economics · Risk management · PolicyPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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An editorial construction about monoculture, concentrated risk, and dissent.The Field’s Dissenting EconomistCyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly, and getting fired for it045 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/046-kevin-mandia/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/046-kevin-mandia/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e6b3c17d --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/046-kevin-mandia/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/046-kevin-mandia/back.png b/public/releases/v2/security/046-kevin-mandia/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fa19dd11 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/security/046-kevin-mandia/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/046-kevin-mandia/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/046-kevin-mandia/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2e917fc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/046-kevin-mandia/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Kevin Mandia — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Kevin MandiaTHE CONTRIBUTIONFounded Mandiant in 2004 and built breach response into abusiness that governments and Fortune 100 boards call at2am. In 2013 the company published APT1, a reportattributing years of intrusions to a specific People’sLiberation Army unit with building photographs and operatorhandles — the moment public, named attribution becamesomething private companies did.PROJECTS / DOMAINSIncident response · Threat attribution · ForensicsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Tracked down and interviewed the Pakistanibrothers who wrote Brain, the first PC virus, twenty yearsafter the fact. Formulated Hyppönen’s law — if it is smart,it is vulnerable — and is the researcher most often trustedto explain a live incident to the public.PROJECTS / DOMAINSMalware analysis · Threat research · Public communicationPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Lee — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Robert M. LeeTHE CONTRIBUTIONA former US Air Force cyber warfare officer who co-authoredthe analysis of the 2015 Ukrainian power grid attack andthe later CRASHOVERRIDE and TRISIS malware, then foundedDragos to do industrial control system defence as aspecialism rather than an IT afterthought. Co-wrote theSANS ICS courses that most OT defenders come through.PROJECTS / DOMAINSICS/OT security · Threat intelligence · Incident responsePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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LeeThe Industrial Control DefenderDragos, and the analysis of the Ukraine grid attacks048 / RARE / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/049-lesley-carhart/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/049-lesley-carhart/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3a0dd2fb --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/049-lesley-carhart/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/049-lesley-carhart/back.png b/public/releases/v2/security/049-lesley-carhart/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e3539d2c Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/security/049-lesley-carhart/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/security/049-lesley-carhart/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/security/049-lesley-carhart/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0eff761b --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/security/049-lesley-carhart/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Lesley Carhart — Open Source Legends v2SECURITY PROFESSIONALS / V2Lesley CarhartTHE CONTRIBUTIONLed incident response at Motorola Solutions and then atDragos, running investigations inside live industrialnetworks where you cannot simply reimage the plant. Writeslong-running public guidance on breaking into and survivingthe profession, founded PancakesCon, and holds the SANSLifetime Achievement Award for that work as much as thecasework.PROJECTS / DOMAINSDigital forensics · ICS/OT security · MentorshipPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Teaches the SANS cyber threatintelligence course and spends most of her public work onthe unglamorous question of how an intelligence reportturns into a detection someone actually deploys.PROJECTS / DOMAINSThreat intelligence · Detection engineering · ATT&CKPROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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More striking is that she argued themachine could act on things other than numbers, whichnobody else did for a century.PROJECTS / DOMAINSAlgorithms · Analytical Engine · Computing theoryPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Rear Admiral, and thereason anyone says a program has a bug.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCompilers · COBOL · Programming languagesPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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She coined the term software engineering, partly toget the discipline taken seriously.PROJECTS / DOMAINSFlight software · Fault tolerance · Software engineeringPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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When the agency moved toelectronic computers for John Glenn’s orbit, Glenn askedfor her to check the machine’s numbers by hand before hewould fly. Co-authored a 1960 report on orbitalcalculation, unusual for a woman at Langley then.PROJECTS / DOMAINSOrbital mechanics · Numerical analysis · SpaceflightPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Seeing that the arriving IBM machineswould make human computers obsolete, she taught herselfFORTRAN and then taught her staff, moving the whole groupinto programming rather than out of work. That is a rarerkind of technical foresight than the usual sort.PROJECTS / DOMAINSFORTRAN · Numerical computing · Team leadershipPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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They were calledoperators and left out of the 1946 press photographs. Shewent on to help convert ENIAC to a stored-program machineand to work on BINAC and UNIVAC.PROJECTS / DOMAINSENIAC · Stored-program computers · Early programmingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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She argued for the UNIVAC console beinggrey rather than black on human-factors grounds, worked onthe C-10 instruction set, and later contributed to theCOBOL and FORTRAN standards.PROJECTS / DOMAINSEarly programming · Sorting · Human factorsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Co-wrote some ofthe earliest books on how to program and design thesemachines, and did early work applying neural network ideasto character recognition in the late 1950s.PROJECTS / DOMAINSAssembly language · Machine architecture · Early neural networksPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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In 1965 she took aLINC home and used it there, which makes her plausibly thefirst person to have a computer in their house. LAP6supported real-time text editing on a machine with twokilowords of memory.PROJECTS / DOMAINSOperating systems · Personal computing · Interactive systemsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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She reportedly sketchedthe design while in hospital after giving birth, and becamethe first woman supervisor of a technical department there.PROJECTS / DOMAINSTelephony · Real-time systems · Load controlPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Her group proposedthe domain naming scheme that gave us .com, .edu, .gov,.mil, .net and .org.PROJECTS / DOMAINSARPANET · DNS · Internet infrastructurePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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The company wrote the Concorde black boxflight recorder software and she later gave much of herwealth away.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSoftware business · Distributed work · Employee ownershipPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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The workstayed secret for decades, so the record of it is thinnerthan it should be.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCryptanalysis · Enigma · Signals intelligencePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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The FBI publicly claimed those results. Herfiles stayed classified until 2008, which is why herhusband William is the famous Friedman.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCryptanalysis · Counterintelligence · Signals intelligencePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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The underlying idea is an ancestor ofthe spread-spectrum techniques used in later secure andwireless communication, and the patent was allowed to lapseunpaid.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSpread spectrum · Radio · Signal securityPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Her 1966 paper on program optimisationis foundational. In 2006 she became the first woman toreceive the Turing Award, thirty-nine years after the awardbegan.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCompilers · Program optimisation · Parallel computingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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TheLiskov substitution principle is the L in SOLID. Also didfoundational work on Byzantine fault tolerance with MiguelCastro. Turing Award, 2008.PROJECTS / DOMAINSProgramming languages · Data abstraction · Distributed systemsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Two-time Godel Prizewinner and Turing Award, 2012. Every zk-rollup and privacyprotocol shipping today is standing on that 1985 paper.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCryptography · Complexity theory · Zero-knowledgePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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An isolated amber strand passes through an off-center aperture and expands into a luminous sculptural ribbon, giving greater weight to the uncommon signal. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/019-karen-sparck-jones/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/019-karen-sparck-jones/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2c7aac5c Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/019-karen-sparck-jones/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/019-karen-sparck-jones/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/019-karen-sparck-jones/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..70213a12 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/019-karen-sparck-jones/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Karen Spärck Jones — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Karen Spärck JonesTHE CONTRIBUTIONHer 1972 paper introduced inverse document frequency: rareterms tell you more than common ones. TF-IDF underpinnedsearch engines for thirty years and is still the baselineevery ranking system is measured against. She arguedthroughout her career that computing was too important tobe left to men, and said so in those words.PROJECTS / DOMAINSInformation retrieval · Natural language processing · SearchPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Its opened quadrant carries two closely overlapping, grain-filled release surfaces inside a common boundary: an abstract sculpture of differential privacy. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/020-cynthia-dwork/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/020-cynthia-dwork/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..982236fc Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/020-cynthia-dwork/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/020-cynthia-dwork/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/020-cynthia-dwork/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2b2c43f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/020-cynthia-dwork/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Cynthia Dwork — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Cynthia DworkTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-invented differential privacy, which gave a mathematicaldefinition to the amount of information a data releaseleaks about any one person, replacing a field of ad-hocanonymisation that kept being broken. It is now in the USCensus, Apple’s telemetry and Google’s. She alsoco-authored early work on proof-of-work and on algorithmicfairness.PROJECTS / DOMAINSPrivacy · Cryptography · Algorithmic fairnessPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Its opened quadrant carries two closely overlapping, grain-filled release surfaces inside a common boundary: an abstract sculpture of differential privacy.Differential PrivacyA formal definition of what privacy loss even means020 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/021-anita-borg/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/021-anita-borg/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bfc1cada --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/021-anita-borg/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/021-anita-borg/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/021-anita-borg/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9d1e928e Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/021-anita-borg/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/021-anita-borg/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/021-anita-borg/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..741a4435 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/021-anita-borg/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Anita Borg — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Anita BorgTHE CONTRIBUTIONAn OS researcher who built a fault-tolerant Unix and amemory architecture analysis tool, and who in 1987 startedSysters, the first email network for women in computing.Co-founded the Grace Hopper Celebration and the Institutefor Women and Technology. The conference now draws tens ofthousands a year.PROJECTS / DOMAINSOperating systems · Community building · AdvocacyPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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At Xerox PARC she and Carver Meadcreated the VLSI design methodology and the textbook thatlet universities teach chip design, then set up MOSIS sostudents could actually fabricate. Modern semiconductorsare organised the way she said they should be.PROJECTS / DOMAINSVLSI design · Computer architecture · Design methodologyPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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A wafer-thin luminous execution stack floats inside an open charcoal architecture, above a multiplying field of miniature structural cells. A heavy supply coupling stands visibly apart. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/023-sophie-wilson/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/023-sophie-wilson/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..faf16a37 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/023-sophie-wilson/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/023-sophie-wilson/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/023-sophie-wilson/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f6f0d497 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/023-sophie-wilson/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Sophie Wilson — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Sophie WilsonTHE CONTRIBUTIONWrote BBC BASIC, then designed the original ARM instructionset with Steve Furber, a RISC architecture so efficient thefirst silicon ran on leakage current when its power wasaccidentally disconnected. There are now more ARM cores inthe world than any other processor architecture, by a widemargin. Later designed the FirePath processor at Broadcom.PROJECTS / DOMAINSInstruction set design · Microprocessors · Programming languagesPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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A heavy supply coupling stands visibly apart.Designer of the ARM Instruction SetBBC BASIC, and the architecture in every phone on earth023 / ICONIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/024-adele-goldberg/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/024-adele-goldberg/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c38dc00a --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/024-adele-goldberg/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/024-adele-goldberg/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/024-adele-goldberg/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cab03d71 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/024-adele-goldberg/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/024-adele-goldberg/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/024-adele-goldberg/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..eae3ed60 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/024-adele-goldberg/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Adele Goldberg — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Adele GoldbergTHE CONTRIBUTIONAt Xerox PARC she developed Smalltalk-80 with Alan Kay andDan Ingalls and wrote the books that let anyone else learnit. She objected to demonstrating it to Steve Jobs and wasoverruled by management; the Macintosh interface followed.Smalltalk is where object-oriented programming and themodern IDE both actually come from.PROJECTS / DOMAINSObject-oriented programming · Smalltalk · Interactive environmentsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Individual golden squares rise from the weave into the new visual language. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/025-susan-kare/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/025-susan-kare/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..030c8deb Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/025-susan-kare/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/025-susan-kare/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/025-susan-kare/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..636d4a4b --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/025-susan-kare/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Susan Kare — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Susan KareTHE CONTRIBUTIONDesigned the original Macintosh icons, fonts and cursors ongraph paper, inventing a visual grammar for directmanipulation that nobody had needed before. The Command keysymbol, the trash can, the watch cursor and the Happy Macare hers. Later did the same work for NeXT, Microsoft andIBM. Her bitmaps are in MoMA.PROJECTS / DOMAINSInterface design · Iconography · TypographyPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.025 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/025-susan-kare/front.png b/public/releases/v2/women/025-susan-kare/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7a1b3c6e Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/025-susan-kare/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/025-susan-kare/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/025-susan-kare/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e900e3a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/025-susan-kare/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Susan Kare — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Susan KareA Grammar of Small SquaresA suspended weave of gridded paper and graphite ribbons opens around a luminous, sculpted pixel cursor. Individual golden squares rise from the weave into the new visual language.The Icons You Grew Up WithThe Macintosh interface, one pixel at a time025 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/026-limor-fried/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/026-limor-fried/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d5bb3c0c --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/026-limor-fried/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/026-limor-fried/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/026-limor-fried/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5d97f7e1 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/026-limor-fried/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/026-limor-fried/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/026-limor-fried/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..69bb12e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/026-limor-fried/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Limor Fried — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Limor FriedTHE CONTRIBUTIONFounded Adafruit from an MIT dorm room and built it into asubstantial manufacturer that publishes its schematics,board files and firmware openly, alongside thousands offree tutorials. Leads CircuitPython, which put a REPL onmicrocontrollers and made embedded programmingapproachable. Proved open hardware can be a real companyrather than a gesture.PROJECTS / DOMAINSOpen hardware · Electronics education · ManufacturingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Chaired the Mozilla Foundation for two decades ofarguing that the browser should answer to users.PROJECTS / DOMAINSOpen source licensing · Governance · BrowsersPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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As Taiwan’sdigital minister she published transcripts of essentiallyevery meeting she took, and used participatory tooling likevTaiwan on real policy.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCivic technology · Open government · Programming languagesPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Its opened interior holds luminous perforated source layers, a pulse-shaped conductor, and precise supporting architecture. Two surgical leads curl through the surrounding space. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/029-karen-sandler/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/029-karen-sandler/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d6162632 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/029-karen-sandler/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/029-karen-sandler/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/029-karen-sandler/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6da0d9c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/029-karen-sandler/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Karen Sandler — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Karen SandlerTHE CONTRIBUTIONExecutive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy,which provides the legal and financial home for a long listof open source projects and does the unglamorous work ofGPL enforcement. A lawyer with a heart condition, she hasmade the argument for auditable code concrete by asking tosee the source of the defibrillator implanted in her chest,and being refused.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSoftware freedom · Licensing enforcement · Nonprofit governancePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Much of what acorporate open source program office does was invented byher arguing with lawyers, repeatedly, for twenty years.PROJECTS / DOMAINSOpen source strategy · Foundations · Corporate policyPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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One of the few people equally credible on alanguage runtime and on licence text.PROJECTS / DOMAINSVirtual machines · Open source governance · LicensingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Co-founded the Ada Initiative, whoseexample anti-harassment policy was adopted across a largepart of the conference circuit and materially changed whatopen source events tolerate.PROJECTS / DOMAINSLinux filesystems · Kernel development · Community standardsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Separate passages meet beneath a laminated amber threshold, while cutaway walls reveal the common foundation beneath them. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/033-coraline-ada-ehmke/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/033-coraline-ada-ehmke/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..86f47562 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/033-coraline-ada-ehmke/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/033-coraline-ada-ehmke/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/033-coraline-ada-ehmke/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a207c7c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/033-coraline-ada-ehmke/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Coraline Ada Ehmke — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Coraline Ada EhmkeTHE CONTRIBUTIONWrote the Contributor Covenant in 2014; it has since beenadopted by well over a hundred thousand projects includingLinux, Rails and Kubernetes, and it is the reason mostrepositories have a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md at all. Also createdthe Hippocratic License and the Organization for EthicalSource, and took a great deal of abuse for both.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCommunity governance · Codes of conduct · Ethical licensingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Separate passages meet beneath a laminated amber threshold, while cutaway walls reveal the common foundation beneath them.Author of the Contributor CovenantThe code of conduct most projects actually use033 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/034-sumana-harihareswara/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/034-sumana-harihareswara/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..537ded43 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/034-sumana-harihareswara/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +The quiet loadA carved dependency labyrinth rests on interlocking violet maintenance arches. An amber route passes through an open, precisely aligned packaging instrument and continues down into the structure that sustains it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/034-sumana-harihareswara/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/034-sumana-harihareswara/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..64974299 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/034-sumana-harihareswara/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/034-sumana-harihareswara/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/034-sumana-harihareswara/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..93db2b5e --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/034-sumana-harihareswara/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Sumana Harihareswara — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Sumana HarihareswaraTHE CONTRIBUTIONLed the successful grant-funded work to replace pip’sdependency resolver, a change every Python user benefitsfrom and almost nobody noticed. Has worked on Wikimediaengineering community, Zulip and MediaWiki, and writesseriously about the unglamorous parts of open source:release management, funding, and how maintainers burn out.PROJECTS / DOMAINSPython packaging · Project management · Open source sustainabilityPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Proposed k-anonymity in response. Later servedas chief technologist at the FTC and published work ondiscrimination in online ad delivery.PROJECTS / DOMAINSData privacy · Re-identification · Technology policyPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Amber and blue channels weave through its shared interior; removable ceramic sections expose the construction beneath. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/036-jessica-mckellar/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/036-jessica-mckellar/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5ab1810c Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/036-jessica-mckellar/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/036-jessica-mckellar/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/036-jessica-mckellar/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dc4fde58 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/036-jessica-mckellar/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Jessica McKellar — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Jessica McKellarTHE CONTRIBUTIONCPython contributor, Python Software Foundation directorand Twisted maintainer who did a large amount of theoutreach work that widened who shows up to Python: BostonPython’s beginner workshops moved the local user group toroughly a third women, which nobody had managed before.Co-wrote a book on Twisted and taught a great deal forfree.PROJECTS / DOMAINSPython · Open source community · Developer educationPROVENANCE2 references. 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Amber and blue channels weave through its shared interior; removable ceramic sections expose the construction beneath.Python, and Who Gets to JoinCPython contributions and PSF leadership036 / RARE / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/037-carol-willing/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/037-carol-willing/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..91c0db4d --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/037-carol-willing/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/037-carol-willing/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/037-carol-willing/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..40afd1a3 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/037-carol-willing/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/037-carol-willing/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/037-carol-willing/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4aaadd1a --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/037-carol-willing/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Carol Willing — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Carol WillingTHE CONTRIBUTIONProject Jupyter steering council member and CPython coredeveloper who has done a great deal of the work onJupyterHub and Binder, the pieces that turn a notebook froma file on someone’s laptop into shared, reproducibleinfrastructure. Served as a Python Steering Council memberand does the release and mentoring work that keeps bothprojects running.PROJECTS / DOMAINSJupyter · Python core · Scientific computingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Wrote a Ruby profilerand various debugging tools. An enormous number ofengineers learned how their machine works from herdrawings.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSystems programming · Debugging · Technical writingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Later editor in chief of SmashingMagazine and now on the Chrome developer relations teamwriting the platform documentation.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCSS · Web standards · Technical writingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Worked on Firefox developer tools includingthe Grid inspector, and is now an Apple evangelist and CSSWorking Group member shipping the features in Safari.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCSS · Layout · Browser engineeringPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Nearlyeverything she makes is MIT licensed and on GitHub.PROJECTS / DOMAINSCSS · Open source libraries · Web standardsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. Sources and metadata accompany thiscard in cards.json.041 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/041-lea-verou/front.png b/public/releases/v2/women/041-lea-verou/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2130bc7f Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/041-lea-verou/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/041-lea-verou/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/041-lea-verou/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ab105d1d --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/041-lea-verou/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Lea Verou — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Lea VerouChromatic faultA suspended topographic relief splits into a chromatic cascade. 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NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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An amber reading path passes through the structure itself, connecting its ivory tiers to blue resonating membranes. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/043-leonie-watson/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/043-leonie-watson/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fb8769aa Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/043-leonie-watson/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/043-leonie-watson/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/043-leonie-watson/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e1cb5fea --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/043-leonie-watson/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Léonie Watson — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Léonie WatsonTHE CONTRIBUTIONA blind engineer who has served on the W3C Board ofDirectors, co-chaired the Web Applications Working Groupand worked on the accessibility of HTML, ARIA and the WebAudio API from inside the specs rather than filing bugsfrom outside. Runs TetraLogical and has spent yearsteaching developers what their markup actually sounds like.PROJECTS / DOMAINSAccessibility · Web standards · Screen readersPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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An amber reading path passes through the structure itself, connecting its ivory tiers to blue resonating membranes.Accessibility in the StandardsW3C board, and making the platform work with a screen reader043 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/044-charity-majors/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/044-charity-majors/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6f74bc7b --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/044-charity-majors/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/044-charity-majors/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/044-charity-majors/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4a1694cf Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/044-charity-majors/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/044-charity-majors/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/044-charity-majors/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ea9c85d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/044-charity-majors/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Charity Majors — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Charity MajorsTHE CONTRIBUTIONCo-founded Honeycomb and made the case that dashboards ofpre-aggregated metrics cannot answer questions you did notthink to ask, which reframed monitoring into observabilityand high-cardinality events. Co-wrote ObservabilityEngineering and Database Reliability Engineering, and hasbeen relentlessly, usefully rude about the idea that youcan avoid testing in production.PROJECTS / DOMAINSObservability · Operations · Distributed systemsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Also one of the more visibleorganisers in the tech worker movement, which cost hersomething and which she has been candid about.PROJECTS / DOMAINSSite reliability · Observability · Labour organisingPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Later worked onKubernetes and GitHub, then co-founded Oxide Computer tobuild servers with an open firmware stack, which is a muchharder version of the same argument.PROJECTS / DOMAINSContainers · Linux security · HardwarePROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. 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Wrote The Manager’s Path, which is the book mostengineers are handed when they first lead a team, and whichis unusually honest about the parts of the job that are notfun.PROJECTS / DOMAINSDistributed systems · Engineering leadership · Apache projectsPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. 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Co-led Google’s ethical AI team until herexit over the Stochastic Parrots paper, then founded DAIRto do the research outside a company.PROJECTS / DOMAINSAlgorithmic bias · AI ethics · Research independencePROVENANCE3 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. Sources and metadata accompany thiscard in cards.json.048 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/048-timnit-gebru/front.png b/public/releases/v2/women/048-timnit-gebru/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..52981271 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/048-timnit-gebru/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/048-timnit-gebru/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/048-timnit-gebru/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ae3bc844 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/048-timnit-gebru/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Timnit Gebru — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Timnit GebruStochastic ParrotsThe paper Google fired her over, and DAIR048 / ICONIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..002da062 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d40d971d Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..31044c5b --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Joy Buolamwini — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Joy BuolamwiniTHE CONTRIBUTIONFound as an MIT student that face detection would not seeher face until she put on a white mask, and turned thatinto Gender Shades, a systematic audit of commercialclassifiers by skin tone and gender. Founded theAlgorithmic Justice League. The work fed directly intomoratoria on police use of face recognition in several UScities.PROJECTS / DOMAINSAlgorithmic auditing · Computer vision · PolicyPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: not-found. Sources and metadata accompany this cardin cards.json.049 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/front.png b/public/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f4784efc Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c2b42c57 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Joy Buolamwini — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Joy BuolamwiniGender ShadesAuditing face recognition, and being invisible to it049 / LEGENDARY / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/artwork.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/artwork.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d0010467 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/artwork.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/back.png b/public/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/back.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bd47b590 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/back.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/back.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/back.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..36489fb2 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/back.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Margaret Mitchell — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Margaret MitchellTHE CONTRIBUTIONFounded and co-led Google’s ethical AI team, andfirst-authored Model Cards for Model Reporting, whichproposed that a released model should ship with a documentstating its intended use, its evaluation data and where itperforms worse. Hugging Face made model cards a default.She was fired alongside Gebru and is now chief ethicsscientist at Hugging Face.PROJECTS / DOMAINSModel documentation · AI ethics · EvaluationPROVENANCE2 references. NicheDB: unconfirmed. Sources and metadata accompany thiscard in cards.json.050 / EDITION 2 / ARTWORK IS AN ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/front.png b/public/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/front.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5e759e06 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/front.png differ diff --git a/public/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/front.svg b/public/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/front.svg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..66be6f89 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/front.svg @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Margaret Mitchell — Open Source Legends v2WOMEN IN TECH / V2Margaret MitchellModel CardsDocumentation standards for models, and refusing to stop asking050 / EPIC / CONTRIBUTION STUDY \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/scripts/release-v2.mjs b/scripts/release-v2.mjs index 6917d979..f2e175e3 100644 --- a/scripts/release-v2.mjs +++ b/scripts/release-v2.mjs @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ const HELP = `Open Source Legends v2 — native SVG art and sourced NicheDB meta node scripts/release-v2.mjs [build|validate|activate] [options] --dry-run Print the exact roster/config; no writes or API calls + --background Persist and poll long-running Astra requests + --concurrency N Cards to build at once (1–64; default 1) --series all|legends|hacking|security|gods|women|ceos (comma-separated) --only 1,2 Card numbers, with exactly one series --limit N Build a proof subset (requires --allow-partial to activate) @@ -40,7 +42,7 @@ it does not create a git tag, GitHub release, merge, or deploy the site. export function optionsFrom(argv, env = process.env, root = ROOT) { const { values, positionals } = parseArgs({ args: argv, allowPositionals: true, options: { series: { type: 'string', default: 'all' }, only: { type: 'string' }, limit: { type: 'string' }, format: { type: 'string', default: 'svg' }, out: { type: 'string' }, - 'dry-run': { type: 'boolean' }, 'png-fallback': { type: 'boolean' }, 'png-copies': { type: 'boolean' }, offline: { type: 'boolean' }, + 'dry-run': { type: 'boolean' }, background: { type: 'boolean' }, concurrency: { type: 'string', default: '1' }, 'png-fallback': { type: 'boolean' }, 'png-copies': { type: 'boolean' }, offline: { type: 'boolean' }, 'allow-missing-metadata': { type: 'boolean' }, force: { type: 'boolean' }, 'allow-partial': { type: 'boolean' }, help: { type: 'boolean' }, } }); const command = positionals[0] ?? 'build'; @@ -51,6 +53,8 @@ export function optionsFrom(argv, env = process.env, root = ROOT) { if (values.only !== undefined && (series.length !== 1 || only.some((n) => !Number.isSafeInteger(n) || n < 1))) throw new Error('--only requires positive card numbers and one series'); const limit = values.limit === undefined ? null : Number(values.limit); if (limit !== null && (!Number.isSafeInteger(limit) || limit < 1)) throw new Error('--limit must be a positive integer'); + const concurrency = Number(values.concurrency); + if (!Number.isSafeInteger(concurrency) || concurrency < 1 || concurrency > 64) throw new Error('--concurrency must be an integer from 1 to 64'); if (!['svg', 'png'].includes(values.format)) throw new Error('--format must be svg or png'); const effort = env.OPENAI_REASONING_EFFORT ?? 'xhigh'; if (!['low', 'medium', 'high', 'xhigh', 'max'].includes(effort)) throw new Error('Invalid OPENAI_REASONING_EFFORT (extra-high is xhigh)'); @@ -63,7 +67,7 @@ export function optionsFrom(argv, env = process.env, root = ROOT) { const maxOutputTokens = Number(env.OPENAI_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS ?? 48000); if (!Number.isSafeInteger(maxOutputTokens) || maxOutputTokens < 1024 || maxOutputTokens > 128000) throw new Error('OPENAI_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS must be 1024–128000'); return { root, command, help: values.help, series, only, limit, format: values.format, out: path.resolve(root, values.out ?? 'dist/releases/v2'), - dryRun: !!values['dry-run'], pngFallback: !!values['png-fallback'], pngCopies: !!values['png-copies'], offline: !!values.offline, + dryRun: !!values['dry-run'], background: !!values.background, concurrency, pngFallback: !!values['png-fallback'], pngCopies: !!values['png-copies'], offline: !!values.offline, allowMissingMetadata: !!values['allow-missing-metadata'], force: !!values.force, allowPartial: !!values['allow-partial'], apiKey: env.OPENAI_API_KEY, nicheKey: env.NICHEDB_API_KEY, textModel: env.OPENAI_TEXT_MODEL ?? 'gpt-6-astra', imageModel: env.OPENAI_IMAGE_MODEL ?? 'gpt-image-2', effort, apiBase, nicheBase, maxOutputTokens }; } @@ -173,14 +177,29 @@ export async function buildRelease(options, deps = {}) { } const manifest = { ...plan, status: 'incomplete', startedAt: new Date().toISOString(), records: [], failures: [] }; await atomicWrite(manifestFile, manifest); - for (const [index, card] of selected.entries()) { - try { - const { resumed, ...record } = await buildCard(card, options, deps); - manifest.records.push(record); - console.log(`[${index + 1}/${selected.length}] ${resumed ? 'resumed' : 'built'} ${card.id} (${record.art.format}; NicheDB ${record.card.research.status})`); - } catch (error) { manifest.failures.push({ id: card.id, error: error.message }); console.error(`${card.id}: ${error.message}`); } - await atomicWrite(manifestFile, manifest); - } + const records = new Array(selected.length); + let nextIndex = 0; + let writes = Promise.resolve(); + const worker = async () => { + while (nextIndex < selected.length) { + const index = nextIndex++; + const card = selected[index]; + try { + const { resumed, ...record } = await buildCard(card, options, deps); + records[index] = record; + console.log(`[${index + 1}/${selected.length}] ${resumed ? 'resumed' : 'built'} ${card.id} (${record.art.format}; NicheDB ${record.card.research.status})`); + } catch (error) { manifest.failures.push({ id: card.id, error: error.message }); console.error(`${card.id}: ${error.message}`); } + // Serialize manifest writes and preserve roster order despite completion order. + writes = writes.then(async () => { + manifest.records = records.filter(Boolean); + await atomicWrite(manifestFile, manifest); + }); + await writes; + } + }; + const workers = await Promise.allSettled(Array.from({ length: Math.min(options.concurrency ?? 1, selected.length) }, worker)); + const failedWorker = workers.find((result) => result.status === 'rejected'); + if (failedWorker) throw failedWorker.reason; const cards = manifest.records.map((r) => r.card); await atomicWrite(path.join(options.out, 'cards.json'), { schemaVersion: 2, edition: 2, cards }); await atomicWrite(path.join(options.out, 'index.html'), reviewHTML(cards)); diff --git a/scripts/v2/providers.mjs b/scripts/v2/providers.mjs index e3dba55a..1ec6d8c3 100644 --- a/scripts/v2/providers.mjs +++ b/scripts/v2/providers.mjs @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -import { artPrompt, matchRecords, safeURL, validateSVG } from './core.mjs'; +import fs from 'node:fs/promises'; +import path from 'node:path'; +import { artPrompt, atomicWrite, hash, matchRecords, safeURL, validateSVG } from './core.mjs'; export async function requestJSON(url, init = {}, { fetcher = fetch, retries = 3, timeout = 240_000, pause = (ms) => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, ms)) } = {}) { for (let attempt = 0; ; attempt++) { @@ -46,10 +48,42 @@ export async function researchCard(card, options, deps = {}) { } function openAI(options, endpoint, body, deps) { + if (endpoint === 'responses' && options.background) return backgroundResponse(options, body, deps); return requestJSON(`${options.apiBase}/${endpoint}`, { method: 'POST', headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${options.apiKey}`, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify(body), }, deps); } + +// Persist the remote request before polling, so a restart retrieves the same +// paid generation. These working files never enter the published release. +export async function backgroundResponse(options, body, deps = {}) { + const request = { ...body, background: true, store: true }; + const file = path.join(options.out, '.requests', `${hash({ apiBase: options.apiBase, request })}.json`); + let saved; + try { if (!options.force) saved = JSON.parse(await fs.readFile(file, 'utf8')); } + catch (error) { if (error.code !== 'ENOENT') throw error; } + let response = saved?.response; + if (response && !/^resp_[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$/.test(response.id ?? '')) throw new Error('Invalid background response checkpoint'); + if (!response) { + response = await requestJSON(`${options.apiBase}/responses`, { + method: 'POST', headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${options.apiKey}`, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify(request), + }, { ...deps, timeout: 60_000, retries: 0 }); + if (!/^resp_[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$/.test(response.id ?? '')) throw new Error('Background API returned no valid response ID'); + await atomicWrite(file, { response }); + console.log(`Submitted background artwork ${response.id}`); + } + const pause = deps.pause ?? ((ms) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms))); + const started = Date.now(); + while (['queued', 'in_progress'].includes(response.status)) { + if (Date.now() - started > 30 * 60_000) throw new Error(`Artwork ${response.id} is still running; re-run to resume polling`); + await pause(5000); + response = await requestJSON(`${options.apiBase}/responses/${encodeURIComponent(response.id)}`, { + headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${options.apiKey}` }, + }, { ...deps, timeout: 60_000 }); + await atomicWrite(file, { response }); + } + return response; +} function responseText(response) { if (response.status !== 'completed') throw new Error(`Astra response ${response.status ?? 'missing status'}: ${response.incomplete_details?.reason ?? 'not completed'}`); const content = (response.output ?? []).flatMap((item) => item.content ?? []); diff --git a/scripts/v2/release.test.mjs b/scripts/v2/release.test.mjs index 683c52dd..2ddbe5c2 100644 --- a/scripts/v2/release.test.mjs +++ b/scripts/v2/release.test.mjs @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ test('CLI defaults and identifiers; rejects typos, unsafe bases and invalid scop const o = options('/tmp/example'); assert.equal(o.format, 'svg'); assert.equal(o.textModel, 'gpt-6-astra'); assert.equal(o.effort, 'xhigh'); assert.equal(o.imageModel, 'gpt-image-2'); assert.ok(!JSON.stringify(publicConfig(o)).includes('test-not-a-real-key')); - for (const args of [['--limit', '0'], ['--format', 'pdf'], ['--seriez', 'legends'], ['--only', 'no'], ['--series', 'all', '--only', '2']]) assert.throws(() => options('/tmp/example', args)); + for (const args of [['--concurrency', '0'], ['--concurrency', '65'], ['--concurrency', '1.5'], ['--limit', '0'], ['--format', 'pdf'], ['--seriez', 'legends'], ['--only', 'no'], ['--series', 'all', '--only', '2']]) assert.throws(() => options('/tmp/example', args)); assert.throws(() => options('/tmp/example', [], { OPENAI_BASE_URL: 'http://example.com/v1' })); }); test('NicheDB requires person identity plus corroboration, excluding mixed search results', () => { @@ -75,6 +75,59 @@ test('PNG fallback is opt-in, runs after failed SVG repair, and does not retry a await assert.rejects(generateArt(CARD, RESEARCH, o, { fetcher: async () => { refused++; return reply({ status: 'completed', output: [{ content: [{ type: 'refusal' }] }] }); } }), /declined/); assert.equal(refused, 1); }); +test('background generation resumes the same paid request after polling fails and caches completed output', async (t) => { + const out = await temp(t); + const o = options(out, ['--background']); + let posts = 0; let gets = 0; let unavailable = true; + const deps = { pause: async () => {}, fetcher: async (url, init) => { + if (init.method === 'POST') { + posts++; + const body = JSON.parse(init.body); + assert.equal(body.background, true); assert.equal(body.store, true); + assert.equal(body.model, 'gpt-6-astra'); assert.equal(body.reasoning.effort, 'xhigh'); + return reply({ id: 'resp_test', status: 'queued' }); + } + gets++; assert.match(url, /\/responses\/resp_test$/); + return unavailable ? reply({}, 503) : textReply(VECTOR); + } }; + await assert.rejects(generateArt(CARD, RESEARCH, o, deps), /HTTP 503/); + assert.equal(posts, 1); + unavailable = false; + assert.equal((await generateArt(CARD, RESEARCH, o, deps)).format, 'svg'); + assert.equal(posts, 1); + const polled = gets; + await generateArt(CARD, RESEARCH, o, deps); + assert.equal(posts, 1); assert.equal(gets, polled); + await generateArt(CARD, RESEARCH, { ...o, force: true }, deps); + assert.equal(posts, 2); +}); +test('background submission does not retry an ambiguous network failure', async (t) => { + let posts = 0; + await assert.rejects(generateArt(CARD, RESEARCH, options(await temp(t), ['--background']), { + fetcher: async () => { posts++; throw new TypeError('network disconnected'); }, pause: async () => {}, + }), /Request failed/); + assert.equal(posts, 1); +}); +test('concurrent builds preserve roster order and resume only failed cards', async (t) => { + const out = await temp(t); let active = 0; let peak = 0; let fail = true; + const roster = Array.from({ length: 6 }, (_, i) => ({ ...CARD, id: `legends/00${i + 1}-person-${i + 1}`, number: i + 1, slug: `person-${i + 1}` })); + const calls = []; + const deps = { ...dependencies, load: async () => roster, art: async (c) => { + calls.push(c.id); active++; peak = Math.max(peak, active); + await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, (7 - c.number) * 5)); + active--; + if (c.number === 2 && fail) throw new Error('temporary card failure'); + return art(); + } }; + const o = options(out, ['--concurrency', '3']); + await assert.rejects(buildRelease(o, deps), /incomplete/); + assert.equal(peak, 3); + fail = false; + const release = await buildRelease(o, deps); + assert.deepEqual(release.records.map((r) => r.card.id), roster.map((c) => c.id)); + assert.equal(calls.length, 7); + await validateRelease(out); +}); test('dry-run makes no writes or remote calls', async (t) => { const dir = await temp(t); const out = path.join(dir, 'does-not-exist'); const plan = await buildRelease(options(out, ['--dry-run']), { load: dependencies.load, research: () => assert.fail('network called'), art: () => assert.fail('generation called') }); diff --git a/src/app/gods-of-ai/page.tsx b/src/app/gods-of-ai/page.tsx index 120ccda3..470af4df 100644 --- a/src/app/gods-of-ai/page.tsx +++ b/src/app/gods-of-ai/page.tsx @@ -43,15 +43,14 @@ const CRITERIA = [ body: 'Every card links the artefact behind the claim — the arXiv entry, the GitHub repository, the prize citation. If we cannot link it, it does not go on the card.', }, { - tag: 'Real faces', - head: 'No invented likenesses', - body: 'A portrait is painted from an identified photograph of that person, credited to the photographer or the source. Where none exists, the card carries no face rather than a fabrication.', + tag: 'Original art', + head: 'Inspired by the work', + body: 'Edition 2 uses original illustrations inspired by each person’s contributions. Each card pairs an interpretation of their work with a documented biography and sources.', }, ]; export default function GodsOfAiPage() { const pct = Math.round((draftedCount / totalPlanned) * 100); - const faceless = totalPlanned - illustratedCount; return ( <> @@ -71,11 +70,8 @@ export default function GodsOfAiPage() { deliberately toward those who gave the work away.

- Every portrait here is painted from a real, identified photograph, and the - source is credited on the card.{' '} - {faceless > 0 - ? `${faceless} of the ${totalPlanned} have no photograph we could verify, so those cards carry no face rather than an invented one. Point us at a licensed photo and that changes.` - : 'All of them have one.'} + Edition 2 pairs each person with original artwork inspired by their contributions. + Explore the card pages for the illustrations, biographies and sources behind the set.

@@ -108,7 +104,7 @@ export default function GodsOfAiPage() { {lockedCount}/{totalPlanned}
- Portraits from a verified photo + Artwork rendered

What ships next

    - {faceless > 0 && ( -
  1. - Find licensed photographs for the {faceless} cards with no face. Pointers - are as welcome as pull requests. -
    2. - )} +
  2. Review the new artwork and the sources behind each contribution.
  3. Take nominations and re-cut any slot the argument goes against.
  4. Re-render any card whose copy or stat line changes in review.
  5. Print run and packs, alongside the open-licensed downloads.
    6. diff --git a/src/app/page.tsx b/src/app/page.tsx index ade817a1..d70a57fd 100644 --- a/src/app/page.tsx +++ b/src/app/page.tsx @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ export default function Home() { reinforcement learning, plus the people who wrote the frameworks, kernels and quantisers the field runs on. {architects.length} cards, scored explicitly on how much they gave away, {aiIllustrated} of {aiTotal}{' '} - illustrated from real photographs. + illustrated with original artwork inspired by their contributions.

@@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ export default function Home() { One hundred and eighty years of it: the first compiler, the first assembler, the ARM instruction set, the Apollo guidance software, and the code of conduct in your repository. {builders.length} cards, {wIllustrated} of{' '} - {wTotal} illustrated from real photographs. Series One has forty-seven cards - and no women on any of them, which is the reason this set exists. + {wTotal} illustrated with original artwork inspired by their contributions. + Series One has forty-seven cards and no women on any of them, which is the reason this set exists.

@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ export default function Home() { person who decided it would be built, and whether it would be given away: the billion dollars IBM put behind Linux, Java under the GPL, the GitHub acquisition. {executives.length} cards, {cIllustrated} of {cTotal}{' '} - illustrated from real photographs. + illustrated with original artwork inspired by their contributions.

diff --git a/src/app/security-professionals/page.tsx b/src/app/security-professionals/page.tsx index 24db57b9..5fa6ed09 100644 --- a/src/app/security-professionals/page.tsx +++ b/src/app/security-professionals/page.tsx @@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ const CRITERIA = [ body: 'Series Two documents the people who broke things. This one documents the people whose job was to hold. A name in Hacking Legends cannot also be here.', }, { - tag: 'Real faces', - head: 'No invented likenesses', - body: 'A portrait is painted from an identified photograph of that person, credited to the photographer. Where no properly licensed photo exists, the card carries no face. An earlier version of this set generated faces from text alone; those were fabrications and they were withdrawn.', + tag: 'Original art', + head: 'Inspired by the work', + body: 'Edition 2 uses original illustrations inspired by each person’s contributions. Each card pairs an interpretation of their work with a documented biography and sources.', }, ]; @@ -70,11 +70,8 @@ export default function SecurityProfessionalsPage() { line rather than crossing it.

- Every portrait here is painted from a real, identified photograph of the person, - and the photographer is credited on the card. {totalPlanned - illustratedCount} of - the {totalPlanned} have no freely-licensed photograph we could find, so those cards - carry no face rather than an invented one. If you can point us at a properly - licensed photo of someone, that is the single most useful thing you can contribute. + Edition 2 pairs each person with original artwork inspired by their contributions. + Explore the card pages for the illustrations, biographies and sources behind the set.

@@ -107,7 +104,7 @@ export default function SecurityProfessionalsPage() { {lockedCount}/{totalPlanned}
- Portraits from a verified photo + Artwork rendered

What ships next

    -
  1. - Find licensed photographs for the {totalPlanned - illustratedCount} cards with - no face. Pull requests welcome, and so are pointers. -
    2. +
  2. Review the new artwork and the sources behind each contribution.
  3. Take nominations and re-cut any slot the argument goes against.
  4. Re-render any card whose copy or stat line changes in review.
  5. Print run and packs, alongside the open-licensed downloads.
    6. diff --git a/src/app/tech-ceos/page.tsx b/src/app/tech-ceos/page.tsx index 2827af8c..33a117b2 100644 --- a/src/app/tech-ceos/page.tsx +++ b/src/app/tech-ceos/page.tsx @@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ const CRITERIA = [ export default function TechCeosPage() { const pct = Math.round((draftedCount / totalPlanned) * 100); - const faceless = totalPlanned - illustratedCount; return ( <> @@ -107,7 +106,7 @@ export default function TechCeosPage() { {lockedCount}/{totalPlanned}
- Portraits from a verified photo + Artwork rendered

What ships next

    - {faceless > 0 && ( -
  1. - Find a verifiable photograph for the {faceless === 1 ? 'one card' : `${faceless} cards`} with - no face. A profile picture on an account we cannot tie to a real name does - not count. -
    2. - )} +
  2. Review the new artwork and the sources behind each contribution.
  3. Take nominations and re-cut any slot the argument goes against.
  4. Re-render any card whose copy or stat line changes in review.
  5. Print run and packs, alongside the open-licensed downloads.
    6. diff --git a/src/app/women-in-tech/page.tsx b/src/app/women-in-tech/page.tsx index 7c013d39..c4e865b1 100644 --- a/src/app/women-in-tech/page.tsx +++ b/src/app/women-in-tech/page.tsx @@ -44,15 +44,14 @@ const CRITERIA = [ body: 'Every card links the artefact behind the claim. Several of these careers were classified, uncredited or attributed to someone else at the time, which is noted where it applies.', }, { - tag: 'Real faces', - head: 'No invented likenesses', - body: 'A portrait is painted from an identified photograph, credited to its source. Where no usable photograph exists the card carries no face. That rule costs this set six portraits.', + tag: 'Original art', + head: 'Inspired by the work', + body: 'Edition 2 uses original illustrations inspired by each person’s contributions. Each card pairs an interpretation of their work with a documented biography and sources.', }, ]; export default function WomenInTechPage() { const pct = Math.round((draftedCount / totalPlanned) * 100); - const faceless = totalPlanned - illustratedCount; return ( <> @@ -106,7 +105,7 @@ export default function WomenInTechPage() { {lockedCount}/{totalPlanned}
- Portraits from a verified photo + Artwork rendered

What ships next

    - {faceless > 0 && ( -
  1. - Find usable photographs for the {faceless} cards with no face. For the - wartime and ENIAC entries this may not be possible at all. -
    2. - )} +
  2. Review the new artwork and the sources behind each contribution.
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    6. diff --git a/src/data/ai.ts b/src/data/ai.ts index 3f06efef..905f7aa3 100644 --- a/src/data/ai.ts +++ b/src/data/ai.ts @@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Co-authored the 1986 paper that made backpropagation practical, then spent the AI winter insisting neural networks would work while the field moved on. Was proved right in 2012 when his students won ImageNet by a margin nobody could argue with. Shared the 2018 Turing Award and the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, and left Google to speak freely about the risks.', note: 'The whole field is downstream of one person refusing to change his mind.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/001-geoffrey-hinton-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/001-geoffrey-hinton-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/001-geoffrey-hinton/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/001-geoffrey-hinton/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Geoffrey Hinton', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton' }, { label: 'ACM A.M. Turing Award 2018', url: 'https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/hinton_4791679.cfm' }, @@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Built LeNet in the late 1980s and had convolutional networks reading cheques at industrial scale while the rest of the field doubted them. Shared the 2018 Turing Award. As Meta’s chief AI scientist he has been the loudest senior voice for releasing weights rather than gatekeeping them, which is a large part of why open-weight models exist at all.', note: 'The open-weight ecosystem has one very stubborn advocate to thank.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/002-yann-lecun-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/002-yann-lecun-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/002-yann-lecun/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/002-yann-lecun/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Yann LeCun', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun' }, { label: 'Gradient-Based Learning Applied to Document Recognition (1998)', url: 'http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/lecun-98.pdf' }, @@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Third of the 2018 Turing Award trio, and the one who stayed in the university. Founded MILA, whose lab produced Theano — the framework a generation of researchers learned on before TensorFlow and PyTorch existed. Co-authored the Deep Learning textbook, and now chairs international scientific reporting on AI risk.', note: 'Kept the research public when the money was arguing for the opposite.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/003-yoshua-bengio-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/003-yoshua-bengio-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/003-yoshua-bengio/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/003-yoshua-bengio/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Yoshua Bengio', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshua_Bengio' }, { label: 'Mila — Quebec AI Institute', url: 'https://mila.quebec/en' }, @@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'With Sepp Hochreiter published long short-term memory in 1997, the architecture that made sequence learning work and which ran speech recognition and translation on a billion phones before transformers arrived. Also did early work on meta-learning, artificial curiosity and GAN-adjacent ideas, and is famous for pointing out, at length, when the field forgets its own history.', note: 'Difficult, frequently correct, and the priority disputes are usually worth reading.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/004-jurgen-schmidhuber-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/004-jurgen-schmidhuber-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/004-jurgen-schmidhuber/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/004-jurgen-schmidhuber/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Jürgen Schmidhuber', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber' }, { label: 'Long Short-Term Memory (1997)', url: 'https://www.bioinf.jku.at/publications/older/2604.pdf' }, @@ -155,8 +155,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Invented temporal-difference learning and co-wrote Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, the textbook the whole field learned from and which is free online. His 2019 essay “The Bitter Lesson” — that general methods plus compute beat handcrafted human knowledge — has become the most-cited two pages in modern AI. Shared the 2024 Turing Award.', note: 'Wrote the shortest, most annoying, most consistently vindicated thing in AI.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/005-rich-sutton-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/005-rich-sutton-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/005-rich-sutton/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/005-rich-sutton/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Richard S. Sutton', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S._Sutton' }, { label: 'Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction', url: 'http://incompleteideas.net/book/the-book.html' }, @@ -182,8 +182,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'With Sutton, built reinforcement learning into a coherent field from the actor-critic architecture onward, and co-wrote the textbook that defined it. His work tied machine learning back to animal learning and dopamine-driven reward prediction, which turned out to describe both. Shared the 2024 Turing Award.', note: 'The quieter half of the pair that gave machines a reason to try things.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/006-andrew-barto-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/006-andrew-barto-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/006-andrew-barto/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/006-andrew-barto/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Andrew Barto', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Barto' }, { label: 'ACM A.M. Turing Award 2024', url: 'https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/barto_1013210.cfm' }, @@ -208,8 +208,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Made probabilistic reasoning tractable with Bayesian networks, then built the formal machinery of causal inference — do-calculus, counterfactuals, the ladder of causation. Turing Award, 2011. Spends much of his time arguing that systems which only fit correlations are missing the thing that makes reasoning work, an argument the scaling era has not settled.', note: 'The standing objection the field has not answered, only outrun.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/007-judea-pearl-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/007-judea-pearl-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/007-judea-pearl/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/007-judea-pearl/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Judea Pearl', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_Pearl' }, { label: 'ACM A.M. Turing Award 2011', url: 'https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/pearl_2658896.cfm' }, @@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Built ImageNet when the field believed better algorithms mattered more than more data, and gave it away. The 2012 competition on that dataset is the moment deep learning stopped being a minority position. Founded Stanford HAI, served as chief scientist of AI at Google Cloud, and has pushed hard on who gets a say in how this technology is built.', note: 'Proved the data was the bottleneck, then handed the data to everyone.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/008-fei-fei-li-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/008-fei-fei-li-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/008-fei-fei-li/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/008-fei-fei-li/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Fei-Fei Li', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fei-Fei_Li' }, { label: 'ImageNet', url: 'https://www.image-net.org/' }, @@ -260,8 +260,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Lead author of the 2017 paper that threw out recurrence and convolution and kept only attention. Every large language model since is a transformer, which makes those eight pages the most consequential architecture paper of the century so far. Later co-founded Adept and then Essential AI.', note: 'One paper, and the shape of every model you have used since.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/009-ashish-vaswani-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/009-ashish-vaswani-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/009-ashish-vaswani/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/009-ashish-vaswani/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Attention Is All You Need (2017)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762' }, { label: 'Essential AI', url: 'https://www.essential.ai/' }, @@ -286,8 +286,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Transformer co-author whose fingerprints are on most of what made the architecture fast: multi-query attention, sparsely-gated mixture-of-experts, the Mesh-TensorFlow work on model parallelism, and the T5 line. Left Google to found Character.AI, then returned to lead Gemini. Widely regarded as the best engineer in the room on making big models cheap.', note: 'Designed it, then spent a decade making it affordable to run.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/010-noam-shazeer-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/010-noam-shazeer-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/010-noam-shazeer/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/010-noam-shazeer/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Attention Is All You Need (2017)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762' }, { label: 'Outrageously Large Neural Networks: Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts (2017)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06538' }, @@ -312,8 +312,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Transformer co-author who also built and released Tensor2Tensor, the open library that put a working transformer implementation in everyone’s hands within weeks of the paper, and later Trax. Moved to OpenAI to work on the reasoning-model line. The gap between publishing an architecture and everyone being able to run it was largely his to close.', note: 'The paper made it famous; the repo made it everyone’s.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/011-lukasz-kaiser-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/011-lukasz-kaiser-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/011-lukasz-kaiser/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/011-lukasz-kaiser/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Attention Is All You Need (2017)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762' }, { label: 'Tensor2Tensor', url: 'https://github.com/tensorflow/tensor2tensor' }, @@ -338,8 +338,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Was an intern when he became a co-author on Attention Is All You Need. Co-founded FOR.ai and then Cohere, building large language models for enterprises, and Cohere Labs has released open-weight multilingual models including the Aya family with a strong emphasis on languages the field usually ignores.', note: 'Went from intern on the paper to running a lab built on it.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/012-aidan-gomez-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/012-aidan-gomez-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/012-aidan-gomez/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/012-aidan-gomez/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Attention Is All You Need (2017)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762' }, { label: 'Cohere Labs', url: 'https://cohere.com/research' }, @@ -364,8 +364,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Wrote the CUDA code that trained AlexNet on two consumer GPUs and won ImageNet 2012 by a margin so large it settled the question of whether deep learning worked. Released cuda-convnet so others could reproduce it. Also assembled CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, which remain the default first datasets for anyone learning the field.', note: 'Hand-wrote the kernels that started the modern era, then went quiet.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/013-alex-krizhevsky-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/013-alex-krizhevsky-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/013-alex-krizhevsky/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/013-alex-krizhevsky/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Alex Krizhevsky', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Krizhevsky' }, { label: 'ImageNet Classification with Deep CNNs (2012)', url: 'https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2012/file/c399862d3b9d6b76c8436e924a68c45b-Paper.pdf' }, @@ -390,8 +390,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Co-author of AlexNet, then of sequence-to-sequence learning, then co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI through the GPT series. The through-line of his career is a conviction that scale plus the right objective gets you most of the way, held earlier and harder than almost anyone. Left in 2024 to found Safe Superintelligence.', note: 'Bet on scale before it was obvious, three separate times.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/014-ilya-sutskever-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/014-ilya-sutskever-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/014-ilya-sutskever/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/014-ilya-sutskever/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Ilya Sutskever', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Sutskever' }, { label: 'Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks (2014)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3215' }, @@ -416,8 +416,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Proposed generative adversarial networks in 2014 — two networks trained against each other — and gave image generation its first decade. Co-wrote the Deep Learning textbook with Bengio and Courville, which is free to read online, and did foundational work on adversarial examples that became its own subfield.', note: 'Two networks arguing, and suddenly machines could imagine.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/015-ian-goodfellow-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/015-ian-goodfellow-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/015-ian-goodfellow/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/015-ian-goodfellow/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Ian Goodfellow', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Goodfellow' }, { label: 'Generative Adversarial Networks (2014)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661' }, @@ -442,8 +442,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Wrote FlashAttention, an IO-aware exact attention kernel that cut memory use enough to make long contexts practical, and released it openly — it is now in essentially every training stack in the world. Co-created the Mamba state space architecture with Albert Gu, also open. Chief scientist at Together AI and a Princeton professor.', note: 'If your context window is long, it is partly because of his CUDA.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/016-tri-dao-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/016-tri-dao-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/016-tri-dao/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/016-tri-dao/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'FlashAttention (2022)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14135' }, { label: 'flash-attention on GitHub', url: 'https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention' }, @@ -468,8 +468,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Developed structured state space models — S4 and its successors — showing that sequence modelling with linear-time scaling could compete with quadratic attention on long inputs. Co-created Mamba with Tri Dao and released it openly. The most serious architectural alternative to the transformer to come out of the last decade.', note: 'The only person with a real answer to "what comes after attention".', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/017-albert-gu-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/017-albert-gu-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/017-albert-gu/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/017-albert-gu/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces (2021)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00396' }, { label: 'Mamba (2023)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00752' }, @@ -494,8 +494,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'First author on the original GPT paper, on GPT-2, on CLIP and on Whisper — an unusual concentration of foundational work in one person. DCGAN before that. Whisper was released openly with weights and remains the default speech recognition model for anyone who does not want to send audio to an API.', note: 'Four papers, four subfields. Almost no public profile.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/018-alec-radford-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/018-alec-radford-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/018-alec-radford/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/018-alec-radford/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training (2018)', url: 'https://cdn.openai.com/research-covers/language-unsupervised/language_understanding_paper.pdf' }, { label: 'Whisper on GitHub', url: 'https://github.com/openai/whisper' }, @@ -520,8 +520,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Led the AlphaGo work that beat Lee Sedol in 2016, a result the field had expected to be a decade away, then AlphaZero — which threw away the human games entirely and taught itself Go, chess and shogi from the rules. His RL lecture series, free on YouTube, taught the subject to a generation.', note: 'Showed that removing the human data made it stronger, not weaker.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/019-david-silver-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/019-david-silver-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/019-david-silver/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/019-david-silver/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'David Silver', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Silver_(computer_scientist)' }, { label: 'Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge (2017)', url: 'https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24270' }, @@ -546,8 +546,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Co-authored sequence-to-sequence learning and Pointer Networks, led AlphaStar to grandmaster level at StarCraft II — a far messier problem than board games — and is now a lead on Gemini. One of the few researchers whose career spans the pre-transformer, game-playing and frontier-model eras at the top of each.', note: 'Has been at the front of three different eras of the field.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/020-oriol-vinyals-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/020-oriol-vinyals-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/020-oriol-vinyals/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/020-oriol-vinyals/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Oriol Vinyals', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriol_Vinyals' }, { label: 'Grandmaster level in StarCraft II (2019)', url: 'https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1724-z' }, @@ -572,8 +572,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Led AlphaFold 2, which solved a fifty-year-old grand challenge in biology to experimental accuracy. DeepMind then released the code and predicted structures for essentially every known protein, free, which is the part biologists actually talk about. Shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.', note: 'The strongest argument in the set that AI can just make a field better.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/021-john-jumper-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/021-john-jumper-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/021-john-jumper/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/021-john-jumper/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'John Jumper', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jumper' }, { label: 'Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold (2021)', url: 'https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2' }, @@ -598,8 +598,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Co-founded DeepMind with Hassabis and Suleyman and is chief AGI scientist there. His doctoral work with Marcus Hutter produced a formal definition of machine intelligence, and he popularised the term AGI at a point when saying it out loud was a career risk. Has publicly held a rough timeline for human-level AI since 2011.', note: 'Was using the word AGI in public when it still got you laughed at.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/022-shane-legg-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/022-shane-legg-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/022-shane-legg/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/022-shane-legg/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Shane Legg', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Legg' }, { label: 'Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence (2007)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3329' }, @@ -624,8 +624,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Chess prodigy, then games developer, then neuroscientist, then founder of DeepMind — the lab that produced DQN, AlphaGo, AlphaZero and AlphaFold. Shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the last of those. Has been consistent for two decades that the point of building intelligence is to use it on science.', note: 'The rare lab founder who kept doing the research himself.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/023-demis-hassabis-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/023-demis-hassabis-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/023-demis-hassabis/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/023-demis-hassabis/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Demis Hassabis', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis' }, { label: 'Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024', url: 'https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/summary/' }, @@ -650,8 +650,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Berkeley professor who moved deep RL out of simulators and onto physical robots, with apprenticeship learning, domain randomisation and the BAIR lab’s long run of open releases. Co-founded Covariant, and his Deep RL Bootcamp and course materials are freely available and are how a lot of people learned the subject.', note: 'The bridge between a policy that works in sim and an arm that works.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/024-pieter-abbeel-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/024-pieter-abbeel-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/024-pieter-abbeel/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/024-pieter-abbeel/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Pieter Abbeel', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Abbeel' }, { label: 'Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research', url: 'https://bair.berkeley.edu/' }, @@ -676,8 +676,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Founding member of OpenAI, then director of AI at Tesla, but the reason he is on this card is the teaching: char-rnn, CS231n, micrograd, nanoGPT, llm.c and the Zero to Hero series, all free, all readable. He has probably taught more working engineers how a transformer actually works than every university course combined.', note: 'The openness score is not a typo. Nobody else in this set is close.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/025-andrej-karpathy-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/025-andrej-karpathy-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/025-andrej-karpathy/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/025-andrej-karpathy/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Andrej Karpathy', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy' }, { label: 'nanoGPT', url: 'https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT' }, @@ -703,8 +703,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Built much of the distributed systems layer modern computing runs on — MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner — then co-founded Google Brain and drove DistBelief, TensorFlow and the TPU programme. TensorFlow being released openly in 2015 is a large part of why the deep learning boom was not confined to a handful of labs.', note: 'Open-sourcing TensorFlow did more for the field than most research.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/026-jeff-dean-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/026-jeff-dean-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/026-jeff-dean/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/026-jeff-dean/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Jeff Dean', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Dean' }, { label: 'TensorFlow', url: 'https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow' }, @@ -729,8 +729,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Led TensorFlow engineering at Google, taking the internal DistBelief system and shipping it as an open-source framework with a public API, documentation and a community. For several years TensorFlow was simply how machine learning was done outside a handful of labs, and that was an engineering and release-management achievement as much as a research one.', note: 'Somebody has to make the internal thing safe to hand to strangers.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/027-rajat-monga-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/027-rajat-monga-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/027-rajat-monga/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'TensorFlow: A system for large-scale machine learning (2016)', url: 'https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi16/osdi16-abadi.pdf' }, { label: 'TensorFlow', url: 'https://www.tensorflow.org/' }, @@ -755,8 +755,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Co-created and led PyTorch, which won the research community by being straightforwardly pleasant to debug when the alternative was not. Ran it as a genuinely open project with an unusually visible maintainer, shepherded it into the Linux Foundation, and co-authored DCGAN along the way. Almost every model in this set was trained in his framework.', note: 'Won by making the thing nice to use, which nobody else tried.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/028-soumith-chintala-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/028-soumith-chintala-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/028-soumith-chintala/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/028-soumith-chintala/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'PyTorch', url: 'https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch' }, { label: 'PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library (2019)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01703' }, @@ -781,8 +781,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Wrote the original PyTorch autograd engine as a student and is first author on the PyTorch paper, then moved to Google and became a core author of JAX. Two of the three frameworks serious research runs on have his design decisions inside them, which is an unusual thing to be able to say.', note: 'The differentiation engine under two ecosystems at once.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/029-adam-paszke-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/029-adam-paszke-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/029-adam-paszke/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/029-adam-paszke/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library (2019)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01703' }, { label: 'JAX', url: 'https://github.com/jax-ml/jax' }, @@ -807,8 +807,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Wrote XGBoost, which won a remarkable share of Kaggle competitions and is still the default for tabular data. Then co-created MXNet, then Apache TVM for compiling models to any hardware, then MLC-LLM for running models on phones and browsers. Every one of them open, and each solved a bottleneck the field was about to hit.', note: 'Four separate pieces of infrastructure, all still in use, all given away.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/030-tianqi-chen-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/030-tianqi-chen-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/030-tianqi-chen/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/030-tianqi-chen/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'XGBoost', url: 'https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost' }, { label: 'Apache TVM', url: 'https://tvm.apache.org/' }, @@ -833,8 +833,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Wrote Caffe as a Berkeley PhD student and released it, giving computer vision its first widely usable deep learning framework at exactly the moment the field needed one. Later built Caffe2 at Facebook, co-created ONNX so models could move between frameworks, and led large-scale AI infrastructure at Alibaba before founding Lepton AI.', note: 'Before PyTorch and TensorFlow there was one option, and he wrote it.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/031-yangqing-jia-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/031-yangqing-jia-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/031-yangqing-jia/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/031-yangqing-jia/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Caffe: Convolutional Architecture for Fast Feature Embedding (2014)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5093' }, { label: 'ONNX', url: 'https://onnx.ai/' }, @@ -859,8 +859,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Wrote Keras, whose entire premise was that building a neural network should not require a PhD in the framework, and it became the on-ramp for an enormous number of practitioners. Also created the ARC benchmark and its prize, a deliberate test of fluid reasoning that current models still find hard — a useful corrective to benchmark saturation.', note: 'Made it easy, then built the benchmark arguing easy is not the same as smart.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/032-francois-chollet-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/032-francois-chollet-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/032-francois-chollet/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/032-francois-chollet/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'François Chollet', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Chollet' }, { label: 'Keras', url: 'https://github.com/keras-team/keras' }, @@ -886,8 +886,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Co-founder and chief scientist of Hugging Face, and the driving force behind the transformers library, which turned "reproduce this paper" from a week of work into an import statement. Led the BigScience collaboration that produced BLOOM, one of the first genuinely open large multilingual models, built by a thousand researchers in the open.', note: 'Compressed the distance between a paper and a working model to nothing.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/033-thomas-wolf-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/033-thomas-wolf-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/033-thomas-wolf/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing (2020)', url: 'https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-demos.6/' }, { label: 'huggingface/transformers', url: 'https://github.com/huggingface/transformers' }, @@ -912,8 +912,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Co-founded Hugging Face and turned it from a chatbot app into the default distribution point for open models, datasets and demos. Whatever you think of the company, the Hub is the reason an open-weight release can reach everyone the day it lands, and the reason a small lab can ship a model at all.', note: 'Not a researcher. Built the infrastructure open research needed to matter.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/034-clement-delangue-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/034-clement-delangue-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/034-clement-delangue/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/034-clement-delangue/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Hugging Face', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugging_Face' }, { label: 'The Hugging Face Hub', url: 'https://huggingface.co/models' }, @@ -938,8 +938,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Wrote ggml, whisper.cpp and llama.cpp — dependency-free C implementations that run large models on laptops, phones and Raspberry Pis. The GGUF format and its quantisation schemes are how most people actually run a model locally. Arguably did more for practical access to open models than any lab release.', note: 'One person, plain C, and suddenly the models ran on your own machine.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/035-georgi-gerganov-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/035-georgi-gerganov-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/035-georgi-gerganov/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/035-georgi-gerganov/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'llama.cpp', url: 'https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp' }, { label: 'whisper.cpp', url: 'https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp' }, @@ -964,8 +964,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Worked out how to run and fine-tune large models in 8-bit and then 4-bit without wrecking them, shipped it as bitsandbytes, and followed with QLoRA — which put fine-tuning a 65B model on a single consumer GPU. His hardware guides are the reference for anyone deciding what to buy.', note: 'Turned "you need a datacentre" into "you need one good GPU".', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/036-tim-dettmers-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/036-tim-dettmers-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/036-tim-dettmers/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/036-tim-dettmers/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs (2023)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14314' }, { label: 'bitsandbytes', url: 'https://github.com/bitsandbytes-foundation/bitsandbytes' }, @@ -990,8 +990,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Co-authored ULMFiT, which brought transfer learning to NLP before the GPT line, and founded fast.ai, whose free courses and library have trained an enormous number of practitioners on the premise that you do not need a PhD to do this. Has been one of the most persistent public voices against regulating open-weight models out of existence.', note: 'Teaches for free and then goes and argues with legislators about it.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/037-jeremy-howard-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/037-jeremy-howard-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/037-jeremy-howard/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/037-jeremy-howard/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Jeremy Howard', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Howard_(entrepreneur)' }, { label: 'Universal Language Model Fine-tuning (2018)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06146' }, @@ -1017,8 +1017,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Executive director of EleutherAI, the volunteer collective that trained and released GPT-Neo, GPT-J and GPT-NeoX when nothing comparable was public, and built the Pile. Led Pythia, a suite of models released with every training checkpoint and the data order — which made a whole class of interpretability and memorisation research possible for the first time.', note: 'Released the checkpoints, not just the model. That is the contribution.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/038-stella-biderman-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/038-stella-biderman-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/038-stella-biderman/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/038-stella-biderman/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Pythia: A Suite for Analyzing Large Language Models (2023)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01373' }, { label: 'EleutherAI', url: 'https://www.eleuther.ai/' }, @@ -1043,8 +1043,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Wrote Cosmopolitan Libc, which produces a single binary that runs natively on Linux, macOS, Windows and BSD, then used it to build llamafile — a whole language model and its runtime in one executable file you can copy to a machine and run. Also contributed substantial CPU inference speedups back to llama.cpp.', note: 'Distribution as an engineering problem, solved with unreasonable rigour.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/039-justine-tunney-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/039-justine-tunney-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/039-justine-tunney/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/039-justine-tunney/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'llamafile', url: 'https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile' }, { label: 'Cosmopolitan Libc', url: 'https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/' }, @@ -1069,8 +1069,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Led LLaMA at Meta, showing that a smaller model trained on far more tokens beat much larger ones — and then it reached the public. Nearly every open fine-tune, quantisation and local-inference project of the following two years traces to those weights. Co-founded Mistral, which has kept releasing open-weight models under permissive licences.', note: 'The weights that turned open-source AI from an argument into an ecosystem.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/040-guillaume-lample-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/040-guillaume-lample-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/040-guillaume-lample/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/040-guillaume-lample/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models (2023)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13971' }, { label: 'Mistral AI', url: 'https://mistral.ai/' }, @@ -1095,8 +1095,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Worked on Chinchilla and Flamingo at DeepMind, then co-founded Mistral and released Mistral 7B and Mixtral under Apache 2.0 — models good enough that "open weights" stopped being a compromise. Made the case, commercially rather than rhetorically, that a frontier lab can give the weights away and still have a business.', note: 'Proved open weights and a real company are not mutually exclusive.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/041-arthur-mensch-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/041-arthur-mensch-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/041-arthur-mensch/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/041-arthur-mensch/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Mistral 7B (2023)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06825' }, { label: 'Mistral AI', url: 'https://mistral.ai/' }, @@ -1121,8 +1121,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Lead author of the latent diffusion paper — run the diffusion in a compressed latent space and image generation suddenly fits on a consumer GPU — which became Stable Diffusion. Its open release in 2022 put image generation in everyone’s hands overnight and set off both an explosion of tooling and a still-unresolved argument about training data.', note: 'The single release that made generative imagery a public technology.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/042-robin-rombach-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/042-robin-rombach-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/042-robin-rombach/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/042-robin-rombach/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models (2021)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10752' }, { label: 'Stable Diffusion', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_Diffusion' }, @@ -1147,8 +1147,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Co-authored VQGAN — the taming-transformers work that made high-resolution generation tractable — and then latent diffusion and Stable Diffusion. Later led the rectified-flow architecture behind Stable Diffusion 3 and moved to Black Forest Labs for the FLUX models, which were also released with open weights.', note: 'Two labs, three architectures, and the weights kept coming out.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/043-patrick-esser-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/043-patrick-esser-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/043-patrick-esser/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/043-patrick-esser/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis (2020)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09841' }, { label: 'Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers (2024)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03206' }, @@ -1173,8 +1173,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'A schoolteacher who organised a volunteer effort to assemble LAION-400M and LAION-5B, the open image-text datasets that Stable Diffusion and OpenCLIP were trained on. Before LAION, the data behind multimodal models was private by default; afterwards, anyone could inspect it — including the researchers who found serious problems in it.', note: 'Made the training data auditable, which is how its flaws got found.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/044-christoph-schuhmann-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/044-christoph-schuhmann-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/044-christoph-schuhmann/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/044-christoph-schuhmann/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'LAION-5B (2022)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08402' }, { label: 'LAION', url: 'https://laion.ai/' }, @@ -1199,8 +1199,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'McGill professor and long-time head of Meta’s AI research, during which FAIR released PyTorch, LLaMA, and a long run of open models and code. Created the machine learning reproducibility checklist adopted by NeurIPS, forcing the field to state its assumptions and publish enough to be checked.', note: 'Made "show your work" a condition of publication at the biggest venue.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/045-joelle-pineau-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/045-joelle-pineau-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/045-joelle-pineau/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/045-joelle-pineau/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Joelle Pineau', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joelle_Pineau' }, { label: 'The Machine Learning Reproducibility Checklist', url: 'https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jpineau/ReproducibilityChecklist.pdf' }, @@ -1225,8 +1225,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Did the feature-visualisation and circuits work that turned "what is the network doing" from a shrug into a research programme, and co-founded Distill to publish it in a form people could actually understand. Co-founded Anthropic, where the interpretability team continues to publish its findings openly.', note: 'Made the insides of a model legible, and made the explanations beautiful.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/046-chris-olah-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/046-chris-olah-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/046-chris-olah/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/046-chris-olah/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Distill', url: 'https://distill.pub/' }, { label: 'Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits (2020)', url: 'https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/zoom-in/' }, @@ -1251,8 +1251,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Lead author of deep reinforcement learning from human preferences, the technique that became RLHF and turned raw language models into things that follow instructions — the single largest reason chat assistants work at all. Later founded the Alignment Research Center and moved to the US AI Safety Institute.', note: 'Wrote the alignment paper that turned out to also be the product paper.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/047-paul-christiano-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/047-paul-christiano-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/047-paul-christiano/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences (2017)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03741' }, { label: 'Alignment Research Center', url: 'https://www.alignment.org/' }, @@ -1277,8 +1277,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Co-led the work that turned RLHF into InstructGPT and then ChatGPT, and headed OpenAI’s superalignment effort. Resigned publicly in 2024 saying safety culture had lost out to shipping, which is a rare thing for someone at that level to say on the record, and moved to Anthropic to continue the work.', note: 'Built the alignment method, then said out loud when it was being sidelined.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/048-jan-leike-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/048-jan-leike-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/048-jan-leike/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/048-jan-leike/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Training language models to follow instructions (2022)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02155' }, { label: 'Jan Leike', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Leike' }, @@ -1303,8 +1303,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Co-wrote Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach with Peter Norvig, the textbook that has taught the subject in essentially every university for thirty years. Then spent the later part of his career arguing that optimising a fixed objective is the wrong design, and that systems should be uncertain about what humans want.', note: 'Taught the field its vocabulary, then told it the foundation was wrong.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/049-stuart-russell-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/049-stuart-russell-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/049-stuart-russell/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/049-stuart-russell/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Stuart J. Russell', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_J._Russell' }, { label: 'Center for Human-Compatible AI', url: 'https://humancompatible.ai/' }, @@ -1329,8 +1329,8 @@ export const architects: Architect[] = [ 'Co-authored Concrete Problems in AI Safety, which gave safety research a concrete agenda, and led the GPT-2 and GPT-3 work where the scaling laws were established. Left OpenAI to co-found Anthropic, whose interpretability and Constitutional AI research is published openly even though the models are not.', note: 'The set’s open-weights sceptic, and its most rigorous public writer on scale.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/gods/050-dario-amodei-front.png', - back: '/cards/gods/050-dario-amodei-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/gods/050-dario-amodei/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Dario Amodei', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei' }, { label: 'Concrete Problems in AI Safety (2016)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06565' }, diff --git a/src/data/cards.ts b/src/data/cards.ts index f40a09b0..caf89789 100644 --- a/src/data/cards.ts +++ b/src/data/cards.ts @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Richard Stallman is a pivotal figure in the free software movement. He advocates for user freedoms in software usage, study, and modification. His initiatives have shaped the landscape of software distribution and rights.", "quote": "Freedom is a matter of choice.", - "front": "/cards/001-richard-stallman-front.png", - "back": "/cards/001-richard-stallman-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/001-richard-stallman/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/001-richard-stallman/back.svg" }, { "number": 2, @@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Linus Torvalds revolutionizes software development with the Linux kernel and Git. His contributions foster a global open source community, driving innovation and collaboration across industries.", "quote": "Linus brings freedom and collaboration to software.", - "front": "/cards/002-linus-torvalds-front.png", - "back": "/cards/002-linus-torvalds-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/002-linus-torvalds/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/002-linus-torvalds/back.svg" }, { "number": 3, @@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Aaron Swartz is a pivotal figure in internet activism and programming. He significantly contributed to various projects that shaped the web, advocating for open access and civic engagement. His legacy inspires many in the tech community.", "quote": "A prodigy who fought for freedom.", - "front": "/cards/003-aaron-swartz-front.png", - "back": "/cards/003-aaron-swartz-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/003-aaron-swartz/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/003-aaron-swartz/back.svg" }, { "number": 4, @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "TJ Holowaychuk is a pivotal figure in the Node.js community, known for his innovative frameworks and modules. His work has significantly shaped web development practices and tools, making him a respected leader in open source.", "quote": "A master of Node.js frameworks.", - "front": "/cards/004-tj-holowaychuk-front.png", - "back": "/cards/004-tj-holowaychuk-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/004-tj-holowaychuk/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/004-tj-holowaychuk/back.svg" }, { "number": 5, @@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Guido van Rossum is a pivotal figure in programming, known for creating Python. His leadership as BDFL shaped the language's development and community, influencing countless developers worldwide.", "quote": "Guido's Python has empowered generations of coders.", - "front": "/cards/005-guido-van-rossum-front.png", - "back": "/cards/005-guido-van-rossum-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/005-guido-van-rossum/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/005-guido-van-rossum/back.svg" }, { "number": 6, @@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Yukihiro Matsumoto, known as Matz, is the creator of Ruby. He emphasizes simplicity and productivity in programming. His work inspires a vibrant community that values creativity and collaboration.", "quote": "Matz believes programming should be enjoyable.", - "front": "/cards/006-yukihiro-matsumoto-front.png", - "back": "/cards/006-yukihiro-matsumoto-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/006-yukihiro-matsumoto/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/006-yukihiro-matsumoto/back.svg" }, { "number": 7, @@ -141,8 +141,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Larry Wall is a prominent figure in open source, known for creating Perl, a highly versatile programming language. His contributions to software development and community engagement have made a lasting impact on the tech landscape.", "quote": "Perl: The duct tape of the Internet.", - "front": "/cards/007-larry-wall-front.png", - "back": "/cards/007-larry-wall-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/007-larry-wall/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/007-larry-wall/back.svg" }, { "number": 8, @@ -161,8 +161,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Brendan Eich is a pivotal figure in web development, known for creating JavaScript. He co-founded Mozilla, championing open-source principles and fostering innovation in web browsers. His work continues to influence how we interact with the internet today.", "quote": "The man who brought interactivity to the web.", - "front": "/cards/008-brendan-eich-front.png", - "back": "/cards/008-brendan-eich-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/008-brendan-eich/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/008-brendan-eich/back.svg" }, { "number": 9, @@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Rasmus Lerdorf is a pivotal figure in web development, best known for creating PHP. His work enables dynamic web applications and has influenced countless developers worldwide. He continues to advocate for open source principles.", "quote": "Rasmus Lerdorf transformed web programming forever.", - "front": "/cards/009-rasmus-lerdorf-front.png", - "back": "/cards/009-rasmus-lerdorf-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/009-rasmus-lerdorf/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/009-rasmus-lerdorf/back.svg" }, { "number": 10, @@ -201,8 +201,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "David Heinemeier Hansson transforms web development with Ruby on Rails, emphasizing simplicity and productivity. As a co-founder of Basecamp, he champions remote work and efficient project management.", "quote": "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.", - "front": "/cards/010-david-heinemeier-hansson-front.png", - "back": "/cards/010-david-heinemeier-hansson-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/010-david-heinemeier-hansson/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/010-david-heinemeier-hansson/back.svg" }, { "number": 11, @@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Ryan Dahl revolutionizes web development with Node.js, enabling JavaScript to run server-side. His work emphasizes efficiency and scalability, shaping modern web applications and influencing countless developers worldwide.", "quote": "Ryan Dahl turns JavaScript into a powerful server tool.", - "front": "/cards/011-ryan-dahl-front.png", - "back": "/cards/011-ryan-dahl-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/011-ryan-dahl/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/011-ryan-dahl/back.svg" }, { "number": 12, @@ -240,8 +240,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Evan You is a prominent figure in web development, known for creating Vue.js. His framework emphasizes simplicity and flexibility, making it popular among developers. He actively engages with the community, continuously enhancing the framework's capabilities.", "quote": "Evan's vision reshapes how we build interfaces.", - "front": "/cards/012-evan-you-front.png", - "back": "/cards/012-evan-you-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/012-evan-you/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/012-evan-you/back.svg" }, { "number": 13, @@ -260,8 +260,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Rich Harris is a leading figure in modern web development. He creates tools that streamline coding processes and improve application performance. His work on Svelte revolutionizes how developers build user interfaces.", "quote": "Transforming the way we code for the web.", - "front": "/cards/013-rich-harris-front.png", - "back": "/cards/013-rich-harris-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/013-rich-harris/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/013-rich-harris/back.svg" }, { "number": 14, @@ -280,8 +280,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Jordan Walke revolutionizes front-end development with React, a library that simplifies building user interfaces. His work emphasizes performance and usability, making it a favorite among developers worldwide.", "quote": "Transforming how we build user interfaces.", - "front": "/cards/014-jordan-walke-front.png", - "back": "/cards/014-jordan-walke-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/014-jordan-walke/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/014-jordan-walke/back.svg" }, { "number": 15, @@ -300,8 +300,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Dan Abramov is a leading figure in the JavaScript community, known for his work on Redux and Create React App. His contributions significantly enhance the development experience for React developers worldwide.", "quote": "Dan's tools empower developers to build better apps.", - "front": "/cards/015-dan-abramov-front.png", - "back": "/cards/015-dan-abramov-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/015-dan-abramov/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/015-dan-abramov/back.svg" }, { "number": 16, @@ -320,8 +320,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Sebastian McKenzie is a pivotal figure in JavaScript development. He creates Babel, a tool that allows developers to use the latest JavaScript features while ensuring compatibility with older browsers.", "quote": "Babel: bridging the gap in JavaScript.", - "front": "/cards/016-sebastian-mckenzie-front.png", - "back": "/cards/016-sebastian-mckenzie-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/016-sebastian-mckenzie/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/016-sebastian-mckenzie/back.svg" }, { "number": 17, @@ -339,8 +339,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Isaac Z. Schlueter revolutionizes JavaScript development with npm, the world's largest software registry. His work fosters collaboration and innovation, making it easier for developers to share and reuse code.", "quote": "Empowering developers, one package at a time.", - "front": "/cards/017-isaac-z-schlueter-front.png", - "back": "/cards/017-isaac-z-schlueter-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/017-isaac-z-schlueter/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/017-isaac-z-schlueter/back.svg" }, { "number": 18, @@ -359,8 +359,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Matt Mullenweg is a key figure in web development, known for co-founding WordPress. He champions open-source principles and has significantly influenced online publishing and content management systems.", "quote": "Empowering creators through open-source innovation.", - "front": "/cards/018-matt-mullenweg-front.png", - "back": "/cards/018-matt-mullenweg-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/018-matt-mullenweg/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/018-matt-mullenweg/back.svg" }, { "number": 19, @@ -378,8 +378,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Dries Buytaert is a pivotal figure in open source, known for creating Drupal, a leading content management system. He champions community-driven development and continues to influence the web landscape through his work at Acquia.", "quote": "Empowering the web, one site at a time.", - "front": "/cards/019-dries-buytaert-front.png", - "back": "/cards/019-dries-buytaert-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/019-dries-buytaert/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/019-dries-buytaert/back.svg" }, { "number": 20, @@ -398,8 +398,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Brian Behlendorf is a pivotal figure in open source, known for co-founding the Apache Software Foundation. His leadership in developing the Apache HTTP Server has significantly shaped the web landscape, promoting collaboration and innovation in software development.", "quote": "Brian champions the spirit of open collaboration.", - "front": "/cards/020-brian-behlendorf-front.png", - "back": "/cards/020-brian-behlendorf-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/020-brian-behlendorf/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/020-brian-behlendorf/back.svg" }, { "number": 21, @@ -418,8 +418,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Roy Fielding is a pivotal figure in web architecture, known for his creation of REST. His work on HTTP and the Apache HTTP Server has profoundly influenced how modern web applications are designed and interact.", "quote": "Fielding's REST principles revolutionized web communication.", - "front": "/cards/021-roy-fielding-front.png", - "back": "/cards/021-roy-fielding-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/021-roy-fielding/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/021-roy-fielding/back.svg" }, { "number": 22, @@ -438,8 +438,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Eric S. Raymond is a prominent figure in the open source movement. He advocates for transparency in software development and has authored influential works that shape modern programming practices.", "quote": "Raymond's insights revolutionized software development.", - "front": "/cards/022-eric-s-raymond-front.png", - "back": "/cards/022-eric-s-raymond-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/022-eric-s-raymond/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/022-eric-s-raymond/back.svg" }, { "number": 23, @@ -458,8 +458,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Bruce Perens is a pivotal figure in the open source movement. He co-founded the Open Source Initiative and authored the Open Source Definition, which shapes software licensing today. His advocacy continues to influence software development worldwide.", "quote": "Open source is a philosophy, not just a license.", - "front": "/cards/023-bruce-perens-front.png", - "back": "/cards/023-bruce-perens-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/023-bruce-perens/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/023-bruce-perens/back.svg" }, { "number": 24, @@ -477,8 +477,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Ian Murdock is a pivotal figure in open source, known for founding the Debian Project. His vision for a collaborative operating system has influenced countless distributions and fostered a strong community ethos.", "quote": "Debian: a legacy of freedom and collaboration.", - "front": "/cards/024-ian-murdock-front.png", - "back": "/cards/024-ian-murdock-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/024-ian-murdock/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/024-ian-murdock/back.svg" }, { "number": 25, @@ -496,8 +496,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Mark Shuttleworth is a visionary entrepreneur and philanthropist. He founded Ubuntu, which revolutionized Linux accessibility. His commitment to open source fosters innovation and community engagement worldwide.", "quote": "Shuttleworth believes in the power of freedom through software.", - "front": "/cards/025-mark-shuttleworth-front.png", - "back": "/cards/025-mark-shuttleworth-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/025-mark-shuttleworth/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/025-mark-shuttleworth/back.svg" }, { "number": 26, @@ -516,8 +516,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Theo de Raadt leads the OpenBSD project, emphasizing security and code correctness. His work on OpenSSH has transformed secure communications globally. He is a prominent figure in the open-source community.", "quote": "Security and simplicity define his legacy.", - "front": "/cards/026-theo-de-raadt-front.png", - "back": "/cards/026-theo-de-raadt-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/026-theo-de-raadt/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/026-theo-de-raadt/back.svg" }, { "number": 27, @@ -536,8 +536,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "D. Richard Hipp is a prominent software developer known for creating SQLite, a lightweight database widely used in applications. His work on Fossil and Tcl further showcases his versatility and impact in the open-source community.", "quote": "SQLite: the database that fits everywhere.", - "front": "/cards/027-d-richard-hipp-front.png", - "back": "/cards/027-d-richard-hipp-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/027-d-richard-hipp/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/027-d-richard-hipp/back.svg" }, { "number": 28, @@ -556,8 +556,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Fabrice Bellard is a prominent figure in open source software, known for his groundbreaking work in emulation and programming languages. His projects, especially QEMU and FFmpeg, have significantly influenced the tech landscape.", "quote": "A pioneer in emulation and multimedia.", - "front": "/cards/028-fabrice-bellard-front.png", - "back": "/cards/028-fabrice-bellard-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/028-fabrice-bellard/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/028-fabrice-bellard/back.svg" }, { "number": 29, @@ -576,8 +576,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Andrew Tridgell is a key figure in open-source software, known for creating Samba and rsync. His work enables seamless file sharing across different operating systems, making him a vital contributor to the open-source community.", "quote": "Tridgell bridges systems with open-source innovation.", - "front": "/cards/029-andrew-tridgell-front.png", - "back": "/cards/029-andrew-tridgell-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/029-andrew-tridgell/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/029-andrew-tridgell/back.svg" }, { "number": 30, @@ -596,8 +596,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Bram Moolenaar is a prominent figure in software development, known for creating Vim, a highly configurable text editor. His work emphasizes efficiency and productivity, making Vim a staple among programmers worldwide.", "quote": "Vim: The editor that keeps on giving.", - "front": "/cards/030-bram-moolenaar-front.png", - "back": "/cards/030-bram-moolenaar-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/030-bram-moolenaar/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/030-bram-moolenaar/back.svg" }, { "number": 31, @@ -616,8 +616,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Brian Fox is a pivotal figure in the open source community, known for creating GNU Bash, a widely used command-line shell. His work has significantly influenced the development of free software and the GNU Project, promoting software freedom.", "quote": "Brian Fox's legacy lives on in every terminal.", - "front": "/cards/031-brian-fox-front.png", - "back": "/cards/031-brian-fox-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/031-brian-fox/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/031-brian-fox/back.svg" }, { "number": 32, @@ -635,8 +635,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Werner Koch is a pivotal figure in free software, known for his work on GnuPG. His contributions enhance digital security and privacy for users worldwide. He actively promotes free software principles through his leadership roles.", "quote": "Koch champions freedom in digital security.", - "front": "/cards/032-werner-koch-front.png", - "back": "/cards/032-werner-koch-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/032-werner-koch/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/032-werner-koch/back.svg" }, { "number": 33, @@ -655,8 +655,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Miguel de Icaza is a key figure in free software, driving innovation with GNOME and Mono. His work empowers developers and enhances user experiences across platforms.", "quote": "A true champion of open source software.", - "front": "/cards/033-miguel-de-icaza-front.png", - "back": "/cards/033-miguel-de-icaza-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/033-miguel-de-icaza/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/033-miguel-de-icaza/back.svg" }, { "number": 34, @@ -674,8 +674,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Federico Mena Quintero is a pivotal figure in open-source software, known for co-creating the GNOME desktop environment. His work enhances user experience across various Linux distributions, making technology accessible and user-friendly.", "quote": "Transforming the Linux desktop experience.", - "front": "/cards/034-federico-mena-quintero-front.png", - "back": "/cards/034-federico-mena-quintero-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/034-federico-mena-quintero/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/034-federico-mena-quintero/back.svg" }, { "number": 35, @@ -695,8 +695,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Havoc Pennington drives innovation in desktop environments, enhancing user experience with GNOME and D-Bus. His work supports seamless communication between applications, making software more accessible and efficient.", "quote": "A key figure in the free software movement.", - "front": "/cards/035-havoc-pennington-front.png", - "back": "/cards/035-havoc-pennington-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/035-havoc-pennington/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/035-havoc-pennington/back.svg" }, { "number": 36, @@ -713,8 +713,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Keith Packard is a prominent software developer recognized for his significant contributions to the X Window System, which revolutionized graphical interfaces in computing. His work continues to impact open source software development today.", "quote": "A pioneer in graphical interface innovation.", - "front": "/cards/036-keith-packard-front.png", - "back": "/cards/036-keith-packard-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/036-keith-packard/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/036-keith-packard/back.svg" }, { "number": 37, @@ -733,8 +733,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Lennart Poettering is a pivotal figure in modern Linux systems. He revolutionizes how services are managed with systemd, impacting boot processes and service management across distributions. His work on audio and service discovery further enhances user experience.", "quote": "Revolutionizing Linux with innovative technologies.", - "front": "/cards/037-lennart-poettering-front.png", - "back": "/cards/037-lennart-poettering-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/037-lennart-poettering/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/037-lennart-poettering/back.svg" }, { "number": 38, @@ -753,8 +753,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Greg Kroah-Hartman is a pivotal figure in Linux kernel development, ensuring its stability and performance. His work on driver backports and Ksplice enhances system reliability, making him a respected leader in the open source community.", "quote": "A guardian of the Linux kernel.", - "front": "/cards/038-greg-kroah-hartman-front.png", - "back": "/cards/038-greg-kroah-hartman-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/038-greg-kroah-hartman/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/038-greg-kroah-hartman/back.svg" }, { "number": 39, @@ -773,8 +773,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Alan Cox is a prominent figure in the Linux community, known for his extensive contributions to the Linux kernel. He plays a crucial role in maintaining kernel releases and enhancing networking capabilities, solidifying his legacy in open source software.", "quote": "A key architect of Linux's evolution.", - "front": "/cards/039-alan-cox-front.png", - "back": "/cards/039-alan-cox-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/039-alan-cox/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/039-alan-cox/back.svg" }, { "number": 40, @@ -793,8 +793,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Chris Lattner is a pivotal figure in programming language design and compiler technology. His work on LLVM revolutionizes how software is compiled, while Swift has transformed iOS development, making it more accessible and efficient.", "quote": "A visionary in compilers and programming languages.", - "front": "/cards/040-chris-lattner-front.png", - "back": "/cards/040-chris-lattner-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/040-chris-lattner/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/040-chris-lattner/back.svg" }, { "number": 41, @@ -812,8 +812,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Graydon Hoare is a prominent software engineer known for creating Rust. His work emphasizes safety and concurrency, making a significant impact on modern programming practices. He continues to influence the open source community.", "quote": "Graydon's vision redefines how we think about safety in programming.", - "front": "/cards/041-graydon-hoare-front.png", - "back": "/cards/041-graydon-hoare-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/041-graydon-hoare/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/041-graydon-hoare/back.svg" }, { "number": 42, @@ -832,8 +832,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Steve Klabnik is a prominent figure in the Rust community, known for his advocacy of open source software. He plays a crucial role in enhancing Rust's documentation and fostering a welcoming environment for developers.", "quote": "Steve champions the spirit of open source.", - "front": "/cards/042-steve-klabnik-front.png", - "back": "/cards/042-steve-klabnik-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/042-steve-klabnik/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/042-steve-klabnik/back.svg" }, { "number": 43, @@ -851,8 +851,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Salvatore Sanfilippo, known as antirez, is the creator of Redis, a powerful in-memory data structure store. His work has revolutionized data handling and caching in modern applications, making him a key figure in open source software.", "quote": "Redis: Fast, reliable, and open source.", - "front": "/cards/043-salvatore-sanfilippo-front.png", - "back": "/cards/043-salvatore-sanfilippo-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/043-salvatore-sanfilippo/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/043-salvatore-sanfilippo/back.svg" }, { "number": 44, @@ -871,8 +871,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Michael 'Monty' Widenius revolutionizes data management with MySQL, a leading open-source database. His commitment to community-driven development continues through MariaDB, ensuring robust alternatives in database technology.", "quote": "Monty believes in open-source freedom.", - "front": "/cards/044-michael-widenius-front.png", - "back": "/cards/044-michael-widenius-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/044-michael-widenius/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/044-michael-widenius/back.svg" }, { "number": 45, @@ -891,8 +891,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Brad Fitzpatrick is a key figure in social networking and open source. He creates impactful projects like LiveJournal and Memcached, which have influenced web development and community building.", "quote": "Innovator of social platforms and caching solutions.", - "front": "/cards/045-brad-fitzpatrick-front.png", - "back": "/cards/045-brad-fitzpatrick-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/045-brad-fitzpatrick/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/045-brad-fitzpatrick/back.svg" }, { "number": 46, @@ -910,8 +910,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Solomon Hykes revolutionizes software deployment with Docker, enabling developers to create, deploy, and manage applications in containers. His work fosters innovation in cloud computing and microservices, making it easier for teams to collaborate and scale.", "quote": "Hykes transforms how we think about applications.", - "front": "/cards/046-solomon-hykes-front.png", - "back": "/cards/046-solomon-hykes-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/046-solomon-hykes/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/046-solomon-hykes/back.svg" }, { "number": 47, @@ -931,8 +931,8 @@ export const cards: Card[]=[ ], "scouting": "Mitchell Hashimoto is a leading figure in infrastructure automation. He co-founds HashiCorp and creates tools that simplify cloud management. His work empowers developers to streamline workflows and enhance productivity.", "quote": "Transforming infrastructure management, one tool at a time.", - "front": "/cards/047-mitchell-hashimoto-front.png", - "back": "/cards/047-mitchell-hashimoto-back.png" + "front": "/releases/v2/legends/047-mitchell-hashimoto/front.svg", + "back": "/releases/v2/legends/047-mitchell-hashimoto/back.svg" } ]; diff --git a/src/data/ceos.ts b/src/data/ceos.ts index c57a9f82..69248d18 100644 --- a/src/data/ceos.ts +++ b/src/data/ceos.ts @@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Started HP in a Palo Alto garage in 1939 with Bill Hewlett and $538, and grew it into the template every Valley company copied: engineers running engineering, profit sharing, and an across-the-board pay cut rather than layoffs in a downturn. He set the practice down late in life as The HP Way. The garage is now a California historical landmark.', note: 'Invented the Silicon Valley company before there was a Silicon Valley to put it in.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/001-david-packard-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/001-david-packard-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/001-david-packard/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/001-david-packard/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'David Packard', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Packard' }, { label: 'The HP Way', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_HP_Way' }, @@ -114,8 +114,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Co-founded Sony in the ruins of postwar Tokyo and spent forty years insisting a Japanese company could sell to the world under its own name rather than someone else’s label. Pushed the transistor radio, the Trinitron and, over his own engineers’ objections, the Walkman, a tape player with no record function that sold hundreds of millions. He also lost the format war with Betamax.', note: 'Proved a hardware brand could be built on taste rather than price.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/002-akio-morita-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/002-akio-morita-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/002-akio-morita/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/002-akio-morita/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Akio Morita', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akio_Morita' }, { label: 'Walkman', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman' }, @@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Took over his father’s punched-card company and moved it into electronic computing over considerable internal objection. The System/360, announced in 1964 after a development effort usually costed at around $5 billion, was the bet: one architecture spanning the whole product line, so a customer’s software survived the next hardware purchase. Backwards compatibility as a commercial strategy starts here, and mainframes running 360-descended code are still in production sixty years later.', note: 'The most expensive product decision anyone in computing had made, and it worked.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/003-thomas-watson-jr-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/003-thomas-watson-jr-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/003-thomas-watson-jr/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/003-thomas-watson-jr/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Thomas J. Watson Jr.', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson_Jr.' }, { label: 'IBM System/360', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360' }, @@ -166,8 +166,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Founded DEC in 1957 and built computers people could put their hands on, at a time when a computer meant a room you booked time in. The PDP-7 and PDP-11 are where Unix and C were written; the VAX and VMS ran a generation of university and research computing. He also spent the 1980s dismissing the personal computer, and DEC was sold to Compaq six years after he left.', note: 'Every Unix story starts on one of his machines. The PC story ended his company.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/004-ken-olsen-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/004-ken-olsen-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/004-ken-olsen/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/004-ken-olsen/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Ken Olsen', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Olsen' }, { label: 'PDP-11', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11' }, @@ -192,8 +192,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Co-invented the silicon integrated circuit at Fairchild, independently of Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments, then co-founded Intel with Gordon Moore in 1968 to build memory and, later, microprocessors. He ran it with the open-plan, no-reserved-parking informality that became the industry’s house style. He was called the Mayor of Silicon Valley, and the eight who walked out of Shockley Semiconductor with him seeded most of what followed.', note: 'Half the companies in the Valley trace their org chart back to his.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/005-robert-noyce-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/005-robert-noyce-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/005-robert-noyce/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/005-robert-noyce/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Robert Noyce', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Noyce' }, { label: 'Integrated circuit', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit' }, @@ -218,8 +218,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Wrote a short article for Electronics magazine in 1965 noting that the number of components on a chip had been doubling on a regular cadence and would keep doing so. Moore’s law was a market observation that turned into a roadmap the semiconductor industry then organised itself around, decade after decade. He was Intel’s CEO from 1975 to 1987, through the period that made the microprocessor the company’s business.', note: 'The one forecast in tech that firms spent sixty years and trillions of dollars making come true.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/006-gordon-moore-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/006-gordon-moore-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/006-gordon-moore/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/006-gordon-moore/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Gordon Moore', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore' }, { label: 'Moore’s law', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law' }, @@ -244,8 +244,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Understood before anyone that the money was in the software, not the machine, and structured the 1980 MS-DOS deal with IBM to keep the right to license it to everybody else. His 1976 Open Letter to Hobbyists, which called copying Altair BASIC theft, is the document free software spent twenty years arguing with. Microsoft was found to have violated the Sherman Act in 2000.', note: 'The counterparty in the argument this entire site descends from.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/007-bill-gates-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/007-bill-gates-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/007-bill-gates/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/007-bill-gates/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Bill Gates', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates' }, { label: 'An Open Letter to Hobbyists (1976)', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists' }, @@ -271,8 +271,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Co-founded Apple in 1976, was forced out in 1985, founded NeXT, bought Pixar, and returned in 1997 to a company close to insolvency. What came back with him mattered technically as well as commercially: NeXTSTEP became macOS and iOS, putting a BSD-derived Unix under hundreds of millions of consumer machines, and Apple’s KHTML fork became WebKit. The iPhone reset what a computer is.', note: 'Ran the most valuable company on earth on taste, and got away with it.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/008-steve-jobs-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/008-steve-jobs-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/008-steve-jobs/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/008-steve-jobs/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Steve Jobs', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs' }, { label: 'WebKit', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit' }, @@ -298,8 +298,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Read Codd’s paper on the relational model and shipped a commercial product from it before IBM did, then spent thirty-seven years as CEO making Oracle the enterprise system of record, largely by acquisition: PeopleSoft, Siebel, and in 2010 Sun. That made Oracle the steward of Java and MySQL, and the plaintiff in Google v. Oracle. The Supreme Court ruled fair use in 2021.', note: 'Owns more of the software you depend on than the licence file admits.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/009-larry-ellison-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/009-larry-ellison-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/009-larry-ellison/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/009-larry-ellison/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Larry Ellison', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison' }, { label: 'Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_Inc.' }, @@ -324,8 +324,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Founded Infosys in 1981 with six colleagues and seed money borrowed from his wife, and built it into the company that made offshore software delivery a credible global business rather than a cost-cutting rumour. Infosys became the first India-registered company listed on Nasdaq, in 1999. Domestically he was as known for insisting on Western-standard disclosure and governance at a time when neither was expected of an Indian firm.', note: 'Rewired where the world’s software gets written, without writing much of it himself.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/010-narayana-murthy-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/010-narayana-murthy-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/010-narayana-murthy/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/010-narayana-murthy/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'N. R. Narayana Murthy', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._R._Narayana_Murthy' }, { label: 'Infosys', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infosys' }, @@ -350,8 +350,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Built SoftBank from software distribution into a telecoms operator and then the most consequential technology investor alive. An early stake in Alibaba, bought for around $20 million, returned tens of billions. He acquired Arm, whose instruction set is in essentially every phone on earth, for about $32 billion in 2016, and launched the $100 billion Vision Fund, which then produced WeWork.', note: 'Nobody has been spectacularly right and spectacularly wrong at this scale.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/011-masayoshi-son-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/011-masayoshi-son-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/011-masayoshi-son/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/011-masayoshi-son/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Masayoshi Son', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son' }, { label: 'SoftBank Vision Fund', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank_Vision_Fund' }, @@ -376,8 +376,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Started assembling PCs in a University of Texas dorm room in 1984 and turned direct sales and negative working capital into a manufacturing weapon: the customer paid before the supplier did. He took the company private in a $24.4 billion buyout in 2013, then bought EMC, and with it VMware, for about $67 billion in 2016.', note: 'The supply chain was the product. Everything else was a box.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/012-michael-dell-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/012-michael-dell-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/012-michael-dell/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/012-michael-dell/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Michael Dell', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dell' }, { label: 'Dell Technologies', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Technologies' }, @@ -402,8 +402,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Ran Sun for twenty-two years and shipped an extraordinary amount of what the internet was built on: NFS, SPARC, Solaris and Java. Sun published NFS as an open specification, released OpenSolaris in 2005 and put Java under the GPL in 2006, decisions that outlived the company since OpenJDK is what most Java runs on today. Commodity Linux boxes killed the workstation business.', note: 'Gave away more load-bearing software than any CEO before him, and still lost the company.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/013-scott-mcnealy-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/013-scott-mcnealy-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/013-scott-mcnealy/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/013-scott-mcnealy/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Scott McNealy', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy' }, { label: 'OpenJDK', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK' }, @@ -429,8 +429,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Spent twenty-five years at Texas Instruments, then founded TSMC in 1987 on a proposition nobody had tried: a chip factory that designs nothing of its own and therefore never competes with its customers. That decision is why a company can exist with brilliant chip designers and no fab, which is to say why Nvidia, AMD and Apple Silicon exist in their current form.', note: 'Changed the shape of an entire industry by choosing what not to build.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/014-morris-chang-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/014-morris-chang-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/014-morris-chang/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/014-morris-chang/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Morris Chang', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Chang' }, { label: 'TSMC', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC' }, @@ -456,8 +456,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Escaped Hungary in 1956, joined Intel as its first hire, and as CEO from 1987 to 1998 pushed the company out of the memory business it was founded on and into microprocessors, after Japanese competitors made DRAM unprofitable. He wrote the discipline up in High Output Management and Only the Paranoid Survive. Intel’s revenue grew roughly tenfold on his watch.', note: 'Killed his own company’s founding product before somebody else did.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/015-andy-grove-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/015-andy-grove-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/015-andy-grove/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/015-andy-grove/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Andrew Grove', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove' }, { label: 'Only the Paranoid Survive', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_the_Paranoid_Survive' }, @@ -482,8 +482,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Founded Huawei in Shenzhen in 1987 reselling telephone switches, and built the largest supplier of telecommunications equipment on earth. US restrictions from 2019 cut the company off from advanced chips and Google’s Android services, and the response was to fund substitutes in the open: HarmonyOS, and openEuler and openGauss handed to a Chinese open source foundation.', note: 'Carded for scale and for what being cut off made the company release.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/016-ren-zhengfei-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/016-ren-zhengfei-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/016-ren-zhengfei/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/016-ren-zhengfei/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Ren Zhengfei', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Zhengfei' }, { label: 'Huawei', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei' }, @@ -509,8 +509,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Arrived from RJR Nabisco in 1993 at an IBM losing billions and widely expected to be broken up, kept it whole, and pivoted it from hardware to services. The decision that matters here was announced in 2000: roughly a billion dollars of IBM investment into Linux, plus lawyers and patent cover. Nothing did more to make Linux acceptable in enterprise procurement.', note: 'The suit who made Linux safe to buy.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/017-lou-gerstner-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/017-lou-gerstner-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/017-lou-gerstner/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/017-lou-gerstner/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Louis V. Gerstner Jr.', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner_Jr.' }, { label: 'History of IBM', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM' }, @@ -536,8 +536,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Co-founded Nvidia in 1993 to build graphics chips for games, then funded CUDA, a way to run general computation on them, long before there was a market for it. When deep learning arrived, the hardware and the programming model were already there. The open source relationship is two-sided: the proprietary Linux driver drew Torvalds’ famous 2012 insult, and the kernel modules were opened in 2022.', note: 'Spent a decade funding a bet on a market that did not exist yet.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/018-jensen-huang-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/018-jensen-huang-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/018-jensen-huang/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/018-jensen-huang/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Jensen Huang', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Huang' }, { label: 'CUDA', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA' }, @@ -563,8 +563,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Sold Linux CDs out of a catalogue business, co-founded Red Hat with Marc Ewing, and worked out the argument that made open source investable: nobody pays for the bits, they pay for support, certification and someone to call. Red Hat’s 1999 IPO was one of the largest first-day gains in Nasdaq history, and the moment Wall Street conceded free software was a business.', note: 'The business model half of open source has one author, and it is him.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/019-bob-young-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/019-bob-young-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/019-bob-young/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/019-bob-young/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Bob Young', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Young_(businessman)' }, { label: 'Red Hat', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat' }, @@ -589,8 +589,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Started an online bookshop in 1994 and ran it for twenty-seven years on deliberately thin margins and reinvestment, which is how it outlasted competitors optimising for quarterly profit. The decision with the deepest technical consequences was internal: an API mandate that every team expose its data over service interfaces, which turned Amazon’s own plumbing into AWS in 2006.', note: 'Sold books until the warehouse for the internet turned out to be the business.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/020-jeff-bezos-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/020-jeff-bezos-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/020-jeff-bezos/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/020-jeff-bezos/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Jeff Bezos', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos' }, { label: 'Amazon Web Services', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services' }, @@ -615,8 +615,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Co-founded Netflix as a DVD-by-post service in 1997, launched streaming in 2007 against his own profitable business, then commissioned originals against the studios he licensed from. Netflix engineering shaped how the industry runs services at scale and published most of it: Chaos Monkey, Hystrix, Eureka and Zuul all shipped as open source, and chaos engineering came out of that work.', note: 'Broke his own company twice before anyone else could.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/021-reed-hastings-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/021-reed-hastings-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/021-reed-hastings/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/021-reed-hastings/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Reed Hastings', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Hastings' }, { label: 'Chaos Monkey', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering' }, @@ -642,8 +642,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Joined eBay in 1998 when it had a few dozen employees and left in 2008 with tens of thousands, having turned an auction site into proof that strangers would transact online at scale, and having bought PayPal in 2002, which mattered more to the internet than the auctions did. She later ran HP through its split into HP Inc and HPE.', note: 'Made online payment between strangers normal, which everything after assumes.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/022-meg-whitman-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/022-meg-whitman-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/022-meg-whitman/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Meg Whitman', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Whitman' }, { label: 'eBay', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay' }, @@ -668,8 +668,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Co-founded VMware in 1998 and ran it for a decade, shipping the thing everyone had been told was impractical: efficient virtualisation of an x86 architecture never designed for it. The consequence is the modern data centre. Server consolidation, live migration and the economics that made public cloud viable all rest on that work. She later ran Google Cloud.', note: 'Every cloud instance you have ever rented is downstream of her company’s hypervisor.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/023-diane-greene-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/023-diane-greene-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/023-diane-greene/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/023-diane-greene/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Diane Greene', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Greene' }, { label: 'VMware', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware' }, @@ -694,8 +694,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Co-invented PageRank as a Stanford graduate student and co-founded Google in 1998, serving as CEO twice. Two decisions on his watch had enormous open source consequence: Android was released permissively and given to handset makers, which is why most phones run a Linux kernel, and Chromium was open-sourced, which is why nearly every non-Safari browser is a Chromium derivative.', note: 'The most consequential giving-away of code by a company that was not trying to be an open source company.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/024-larry-page-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/024-larry-page-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/024-larry-page/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/024-larry-page/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Larry Page', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page' }, { label: 'Android (operating system)', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)' }, @@ -721,8 +721,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Left Oracle to found Salesforce in 1999 behind a marketing campaign built on a red circle struck through the word Software, and made multi-tenant applications delivered over a browser the default way businesses buy anything. Almost every enterprise product now sold by subscription, including most open source companies’ commercial tiers, operates in the category he legitimised.', note: 'Invented the pricing page the rest of the industry now uses.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/025-marc-benioff-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/025-marc-benioff-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/025-marc-benioff/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/025-marc-benioff/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Marc Benioff', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Benioff' }, { label: 'Salesforce', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce' }, @@ -747,8 +747,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'A former English teacher who founded Alibaba in his Hangzhou apartment in 1999, beat eBay in China with Taobao, and solved the trust problem with an escrow payment system that became Alipay. Alibaba’s 2014 New York listing raised about $25 billion, the largest IPO in history at the time. Dubbo and RocketMQ are Apache projects that came out of the company.', note: 'The card that shows how much of the internet was built outside Silicon Valley.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/026-jack-ma-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/026-jack-ma-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/026-jack-ma/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/026-jack-ma/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Jack Ma', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma' }, { label: 'Alibaba Group', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group' }, @@ -774,8 +774,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Ran MySQL AB from 2001 and sold it to Sun in 2008 for about a billion dollars, the most anyone had paid for an open source company. MySQL was the M in LAMP, so the deal proved a freely licensed database with a paid support tier could be worth as much as a proprietary one. He later ran Eucalyptus and HackerOne.', note: 'The exit every open source founder cited for the following decade.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/027-marten-mickos-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/027-marten-mickos-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/027-marten-mickos/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/027-marten-mickos/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Mårten Mickos', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A5rten_Mickos' }, { label: 'MySQL AB', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL_AB' }, @@ -800,8 +800,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Worked on Unix tooling early, was CTO at Sun during the Java years and CEO of Novell, then ran Google from 2001 to 2011, hired as adult supervision for two founders in their twenties. He built the advertising machine and the management structure that carried the company from a few hundred people to tens of thousands, and presided over the Android and YouTube acquisitions.', note: 'Three of the companies on this card list are places he ran or nearly did.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/028-eric-schmidt-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/028-eric-schmidt-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/028-eric-schmidt/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/028-eric-schmidt/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Eric Schmidt', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt' }, { label: 'Lex (software)', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_(software)' }, @@ -826,8 +826,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Founded Facebook in a Harvard dorm in 2004 and still runs the company two decades and about three billion users later, through Cambridge Analytica, the Instagram and WhatsApp deals, and the pivot to Meta. The open source record is enormous and largely separate from the reputational one: React, PyTorch, GraphQL, RocksDB, the Open Compute Project, and the Llama open-weight models.', note: 'The most-criticised CEO in tech also runs its largest open source operation.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/029-mark-zuckerberg-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/029-mark-zuckerberg-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/029-mark-zuckerberg/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/029-mark-zuckerberg/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Mark Zuckerberg', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg' }, { label: 'React', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/React_(software)' }, @@ -853,8 +853,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Tried to sell snowboards online in 2004, found the available software unusable, and wrote his own in Ruby on Rails, early enough that he became a Rails core contributor while doing it. Shopify grew into the platform behind millions of storefronts and remains one of the largest Ruby deployments anywhere, with Liquid, its templating language, released as open source.', note: 'The rare public-company CEO whose GitHub profile is not decorative.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/030-tobias-lutke-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/030-tobias-lutke-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/030-tobias-lutke/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/030-tobias-lutke/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Tobias Lütke', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_L%C3%BCtke' }, { label: 'Liquid (template language)', url: 'https://github.com/Shopify/liquid' }, @@ -880,8 +880,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Runs several companies at once and has changed at least two industries: SpaceX made orbital launch reusable and drove cost per kilogram down by an order of magnitude, and Tesla made electric cars something people wanted rather than tolerated. In 2014 Tesla pledged not to enforce its patents against anyone using them in good faith. He bought Twitter for $44 billion in 2022.', note: 'Carded for the launch cost curve and the patent pledge, not the posting.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/031-elon-musk-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/031-elon-musk-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/031-elon-musk/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/031-elon-musk/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Elon Musk', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk' }, { label: 'Tesla, Inc.', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.' }, @@ -907,8 +907,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Co-founded Spotify in Stockholm in 2006 with an engineering goal that sounds trivial and was not: a track had to start playing faster than a pirated file on your own disk. The early peer-to-peer work solved it, and the licensing deals dragged the record industry into a model it had spent a decade litigating against. Spotify also gave the industry Backstage.', note: 'Beat piracy on latency, which is a more honest explanation than the marketing.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/032-daniel-ek-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/032-daniel-ek-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/032-daniel-ek/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/032-daniel-ek/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Daniel Ek', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ek' }, { label: 'Backstage', url: 'https://backstage.io/' }, @@ -933,8 +933,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Wrote the original business plan for what became AWS and ran it from 2006 until succeeding Bezos in 2021. AWS turned computing into a utility. It also set off the defining licensing fight of the era: Elastic, MongoDB and Redis changed licences over managed services built on their code, and Amazon forked Elasticsearch into OpenSearch, later donated to the Linux Foundation.', note: 'The reason the SSPL exists, and the reason OpenSearch does.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/033-andy-jassy-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/033-andy-jassy-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/033-andy-jassy/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/033-andy-jassy/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Andy Jassy', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Jassy' }, { label: 'OpenSearch', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch_(software)' }, @@ -960,8 +960,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Co-founded GitHub in 2008 and was CEO through the period when it became the default home of open source, largely by making the pull request a social object rather than a mailing-list patch. The company was bootstrapped for four years, ran on a famously flat structure that later came apart, and sold to Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018.', note: 'Turned reviewing a patch into something people do for fun.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/034-chris-wanstrath-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/034-chris-wanstrath-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/034-chris-wanstrath/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/034-chris-wanstrath/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Chris Wanstrath', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wanstrath' }, { label: 'GitHub', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub' }, @@ -987,8 +987,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Came from Delta Air Lines to run Red Hat in 2008 and grew it from about $500 million to over $3 billion in annual revenue, the first open source company at that scale, before selling to IBM for $34 billion in 2019. He wrote The Open Organization, and backed the OpenShift bet on Kubernetes early.', note: 'The proof that the open source business model scales past the true believers.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/035-jim-whitehurst/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Jim Whitehurst', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Whitehurst' }, { label: 'IBM acquisition of Red Hat', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat' }, @@ -1013,8 +1013,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 with Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway and gave away DDoS protection and a CDN to anyone who asked, which is why a large share of the web now passes through it. The company open-sourced Quiche, Pingora and the Workers runtime, funded Let’s Encrypt, and runs Project Galileo for civil society sites at no charge.', note: 'Gave away the expensive part and made the internet structurally dependent on it.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/036-matthew-prince-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/036-matthew-prince-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/036-matthew-prince/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Matthew Prince', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Prince' }, { label: 'Cloudflare', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare' }, @@ -1040,8 +1040,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Founded Stripe with his brother John in 2010, when accepting a card online meant weeks of paperwork with a bank, and replaced it with an API you could integrate in an afternoon. The company set the standard for what developer documentation is expected to look like, and open-sourced Sorbet, a gradual type checker for Ruby now used well beyond Stripe.', note: 'Made the payments industry answer to developers rather than procurement.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/037-patrick-collison-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/037-patrick-collison-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/037-patrick-collison/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/037-patrick-collison/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Patrick Collison', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Collison' }, { label: 'Stripe', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe,_Inc.' }, @@ -1067,8 +1067,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Joined Apple in 1998 and rebuilt its supply chain into the most efficient operation in consumer electronics, then took over in 2011 and grew the company past a three trillion dollar valuation. The move to Apple Silicon was the largest architecture migration any consumer platform has attempted. Apple open-sourced Swift in 2015 and funds LLVM, Clang and WebKit.', note: 'The logistics person who turned out to be the right kind of successor.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/038-tim-cook-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/038-tim-cook-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/038-tim-cook/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/038-tim-cook/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Tim Cook', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook' }, { label: 'Swift (programming language)', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)' }, @@ -1094,8 +1094,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1981 and became its first woman CEO in 2012, running the company through a long and contested revenue decline as it shifted toward cloud. The decision she will be remembered for is the 2019 acquisition of Red Hat for $34 billion, structured to leave Red Hat operating independently, which is why the community did not scatter.', note: 'Paid the largest sum in software history for a company that gives its product away.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/039-ginni-rometty-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/039-ginni-rometty-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/039-ginni-rometty/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/039-ginni-rometty/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Ginni Rometty', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginni_Rometty' }, { label: 'IBM acquisition of Red Hat', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat' }, @@ -1120,8 +1120,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Joined Intel at eighteen, led the design of the 80486 and became the company’s first CTO, then ran VMware from 2012 through its Kubernetes pivot, then returned as Intel’s CEO in 2021 to attempt the hardest turnaround in the industry: rebuilding leading-edge manufacturing against TSMC. He left in 2024 with that unfinished.', note: 'The engineer’s engineer handed the hardest job in semiconductors, twenty years late.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/040-pat-gelsinger-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/040-pat-gelsinger-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/040-pat-gelsinger/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/040-pat-gelsinger/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Pat Gelsinger', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Gelsinger' }, { label: 'Intel 80486', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I486' }, @@ -1146,8 +1146,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Took over Microsoft in 2014, a company whose previous CEO had called Linux a cancer, and reversed the posture completely: .NET open-sourced and cross-platform, the Linux kernel shipped inside Windows as WSL, VS Code released under MIT, Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation, and GitHub bought for $7.5 billion in 2018 and left to run itself.', note: 'Turned the villain of Series One’s founding argument into the largest corporate contributor to open source.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/041-satya-nadella-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/041-satya-nadella-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/041-satya-nadella/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/041-satya-nadella/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Satya Nadella', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella' }, { label: 'Windows Subsystem for Linux', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux' }, @@ -1173,8 +1173,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'An MIT-trained semiconductor engineer with real silicon credentials, she took over an AMD near collapse in 2014, bet everything on the Zen architecture and a chiplet strategy, and turned it into a company that took server share from Intel and grew its market value more than fiftyfold. AMD’s ROCm stack is open source, the only credible open alternative to CUDA.', note: 'The most complete corporate turnaround in modern hardware, run by someone who could read the layouts.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/042-lisa-su-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/042-lisa-su-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/042-lisa-su/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/042-lisa-su/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Lisa Su', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Su' }, { label: 'Zen (microarchitecture)', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(microarchitecture)' }, @@ -1200,8 +1200,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Rented her Menlo Park garage to Google’s founders in 1998, became employee sixteen, built AdSense into the business that funded the free web, argued for buying YouTube in 2006, and ran it from 2014 to 2023. The open thread runs through the codecs: Google released VP8 and VP9 royalty-free, then AV1 through the Alliance for Open Media. She died in 2024.', note: 'Ran the platform, and quietly made its file format free for everyone else.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/043-susan-wojcicki-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/043-susan-wojcicki-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/043-susan-wojcicki/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/043-susan-wojcicki/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Susan Wojcicki', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wojcicki' }, { label: 'AV1', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1' }, @@ -1227,8 +1227,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Turned Dmitriy Zaporozhets’ side project into a company in 2012 and took it public in 2021, running one of the few genuinely successful open core businesses: the community edition stays free and self-hostable while the enterprise tiers pay the bills. GitLab has been all-remote from the start and publishes its entire internal handbook in public.', note: 'Runs the company with the doors off, and it is a public company.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/044-sid-sijbrandij-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/044-sid-sijbrandij-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/044-sid-sijbrandij/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/044-sid-sijbrandij/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'GitLab', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitLab' }, { label: 'The GitLab Handbook', url: 'https://handbook.gitlab.com/' }, @@ -1253,8 +1253,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Co-created Apache Kafka at LinkedIn to solve the company’s own data-pipeline mess, wrote The Log, the essay that taught a generation of engineers to think of state as a replayable stream, and left in 2014 to found Confluent around it. Kafka is now infrastructure at most large companies, and Confluent went public in 2021.', note: 'Wrote the thing, then had to work out how to keep the lights on around it.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/045-jay-kreps-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/045-jay-kreps-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/045-jay-kreps/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/045-jay-kreps/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Apache Kafka', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka' }, { label: 'The Log: What every software engineer should know (archived)', url: 'https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying' }, @@ -1280,8 +1280,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Made his name arguing internally that Google should build a browser at all, shipped Chrome in 2008 and took it from nothing to dominant, picking up Android and Chrome OS on the way before becoming CEO in 2015. Google under him released TensorFlow, Kubernetes, Go and Chromium, while facing antitrust rulings over the businesses that pay for all of it.', note: 'Runs the company that both funds and dominates the open web.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/046-sundar-pichai-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/046-sundar-pichai-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/046-sundar-pichai/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/046-sundar-pichai/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Sundar Pichai', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar_Pichai' }, { label: 'Kubernetes', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes' }, @@ -1307,8 +1307,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Wrote socket.io and mongoose before founding the company now called Vercel, which maintains Next.js, the most used React framework, and turned preview deployments on every pull request into a baseline expectation rather than a luxury. He is also the clearest example of the open-core tension of his generation: the framework is MIT, the hosting is the business.', note: 'Ships the framework, hosts the framework, and takes the argument about it in public.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/047-guillermo-rauch-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/047-guillermo-rauch-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/047-guillermo-rauch/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/047-guillermo-rauch/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Next.js', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next.js' }, { label: 'Socket.IO', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket.IO' }, @@ -1334,8 +1334,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'One of the Berkeley AMPLab researchers behind Apache Spark, which replaced MapReduce as the default way to process large datasets, and CEO of Databricks since 2016. The company has kept releasing the substrate rather than hoarding it: Delta Lake, MLflow, Unity Catalog and the Dolly models were all open-sourced, and it bought MosaicML and Tabular to keep the open table format from fragmenting.', note: 'A professor who turned the lab’s output into a platform without closing the source.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/048-ali-ghodsi-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/048-ali-ghodsi-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/048-ali-ghodsi/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/048-ali-ghodsi/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Ali Ghodsi', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Ghodsi' }, { label: 'Apache Spark', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Spark' }, @@ -1361,8 +1361,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza, carded in Series One, working on GNOME and Mono, then ran GitHub from 2018 to 2021, the years when the community expected Microsoft to ruin it. Instead private repositories became free, Actions and Codespaces shipped, and the Arctic Code Vault buried a snapshot of open source in a Norwegian mine.', note: 'Took over the thing everyone expected to be spoiled, and it was not.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/049-nat-friedman-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/049-nat-friedman-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/049-nat-friedman/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/049-nat-friedman/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Nat Friedman', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Friedman' }, { label: 'GitHub Copilot', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Copilot' }, @@ -1388,8 +1388,8 @@ export const executives: Executive[] = [ 'Ran Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019, then OpenAI, where ChatGPT reached a hundred million users faster than any consumer product before it and forced every large technology company to reorganise around one technology. He was fired by his own board in November 2023 and reinstated five days later. The name is the permanent argument: frontier models closed, Whisper and gpt-oss open.', note: 'The most consequential CEO in tech right now, and the one whose company name is a standing dispute.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/ceos/050-sam-altman-front.png', - back: '/cards/ceos/050-sam-altman-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/ceos/050-sam-altman/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/ceos/050-sam-altman/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Sam Altman', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman' }, { label: 'ChatGPT', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT' }, diff --git a/src/data/hacking.ts b/src/data/hacking.ts index 307bc172..aef4a708 100644 --- a/src/data/hacking.ts +++ b/src/data/hacking.ts @@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Talked his way into more networks than he ever broke into. A teenage phone phreak who became the FBI’s most-wanted hacker, was captured in 1995, served five years, and came out the other side as a security consultant and author of The Art of Deception. He made the industry admit the obvious: the person on the phone is the vulnerability.', note: 'The card that defines the set. Nobody argues about this one.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/hacking/001-kevin-mitnick-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/001-kevin-mitnick-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/001-kevin-mitnick/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/001-kevin-mitnick/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Kevin Mitnick', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick' }, { label: 'Takedown — the 1995 arrest, as told by Markoff and Shimomura', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takedown_(book)' }, @@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Discovered that a toy whistle packed in a cereal box produced the exact 2600 Hz tone AT&T used to signal a free trunk line. The blue-box scene that grew from it pulled in two young Californians named Wozniak and Jobs, and drew the blueprint for every generation of hacker that followed.', note: 'Patient zero for hacker culture. The whistle is the artifact of the century.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/hacking/002-john-draper-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/002-john-draper-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/002-john-draper/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/002-john-draper/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'John Draper', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper' }, { label: 'Blue box — the 2600 Hz signalling exploit', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box' }, @@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Released a self-replicating program from MIT in November 1988 that reinfected hosts far faster than intended and knocked out a large share of the machines on the internet. First person convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Went on to become an MIT professor and a co-founder of Y Combinator.', note: 'The accident that created the entire incident-response industry — CERT exists because of this.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/hacking/003-robert-tappan-morris-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/003-robert-tappan-morris-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/003-robert-tappan-morris/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/003-robert-tappan-morris/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'The Morris worm', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm' }, { label: 'United States v. Morris (1991) — the first CFAA conviction', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Morris_(1991)' }, @@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Front man of L0pht Heavy Industries and co-author of L0phtCrack. In 1998 the crew testified before the US Senate under their handles and warned that the internet could be taken down in half an hour. Later ran cyber programs at DARPA, worked security at Google and Stripe, and blew the whistle on Twitter’s security posture in 2022.', note: 'The rare legend who went from underground to the Senate floor without changing his story.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/hacking/004-peiter-zatko-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/004-peiter-zatko-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/004-peiter-zatko/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/004-peiter-zatko/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Peiter “Mudge” Zatko', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiter_Zatko' }, { label: 'L0pht, and the 1998 Senate testimony', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0pht' }, @@ -153,8 +153,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Seized control of every telephone line into KIIS-FM to guarantee he was caller 102 and won a Porsche. Ran from the FBI, was profiled on Unsolved Mysteries, and served time. Reinvented himself as an investigative journalist at Wired and helped build SecureDrop, the whistleblower system used by newsrooms worldwide.', note: 'Rigged a radio contest, then spent his second act protecting sources.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/hacking/005-kevin-poulsen-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/005-kevin-poulsen-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/005-kevin-poulsen/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/005-kevin-poulsen/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Kevin Poulsen', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Poulsen' }, { label: 'SecureDrop, which Poulsen co-created', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecureDrop' }, @@ -180,8 +180,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Founded 2600: The Hacker Quarterly in 1984 and has been broadcasting Off The Hook on WBAI since 1988. Organizer of the HOPE conferences and a defendant in the DeCSS case, where the courts first wrestled with whether publishing code is speech.', note: 'The set needs a printing press, and this is it.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/hacking/006-eric-corley-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/006-eric-corley-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/006-eric-corley/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/006-eric-corley/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Eric Corley', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Corley' }, { label: '2600: The Hacker Quarterly', url: 'https://www.2600.com/' }, @@ -208,8 +208,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Member of the Legion of Doom who, hours after being arrested in 1986, wrote the essay that Phrack published as The Conscience of a Hacker. Later wrote GURPS Cyberpunk for Steve Jackson Games — the manuscript the Secret Service seized in a raid that helped spark the founding of the EFF.', note: 'One page of text that every hacker under thirty could still quote a decade later.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/hacking/007-loyd-blankenship-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/007-loyd-blankenship-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/007-loyd-blankenship/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/007-loyd-blankenship/back.svg", sources: [ { label: '“The Conscience of a Hacker”, Phrack vol. 1 no. 7', url: 'https://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html' }, { label: 'Loyd Blankenship', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Blankenship' }, @@ -235,8 +235,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Threw a going-away party for a friend in Las Vegas in 1993 and accidentally founded DEF CON, now the largest hacker gathering on earth. Also founded Black Hat, served on the US Homeland Security Advisory Council, and spent years translating between the underground and the institutions that fear it.', note: 'Every other legend in this set has stood on a stage he built.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/hacking/008-jeff-moss-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/008-jeff-moss-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/008-jeff-moss/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/008-jeff-moss/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Jeff Moss', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Moss_(hacker)' }, { label: 'DEF CON', url: 'https://defcon.org/' }, @@ -261,8 +261,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Found a flaw that let an attacker poison DNS caches and quietly redirect any name on the internet. Instead of publishing, he organized a secret multi-vendor patch effort and got the whole internet fixed on one coordinated day in July 2008. Died in 2021 at 42, and the industry has not stopped talking about him since.', note: 'Proof that the biggest bug of your career is a responsibility, not a trophy.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/hacking/009-dan-kaminsky-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/009-dan-kaminsky-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/009-dan-kaminsky/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/009-dan-kaminsky/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Dan Kaminsky', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Kaminsky' }, { label: 'CERT/CC VU#800113 — DNS cache poisoning', url: 'https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113' }, @@ -288,8 +288,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Chased a 75-cent accounting error at Lawrence Berkeley Lab all the way to Markus Hess, a West German hacker selling US military data to the KGB. His logbooks and homemade tripwires invented network intrusion detection by hand, and The Cuckoo’s Egg is still the best on-ramp anyone ever wrote.', note: 'The first documented cyber-espionage case, solved by an astronomer with a printer.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/hacking/010-cliff-stoll-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/010-cliff-stoll-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/010-cliff-stoll/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/010-cliff-stoll/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Clifford Stoll', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll' }, { label: 'The Cuckoo’s Egg', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)' }, @@ -314,8 +314,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Computational physicist at San Diego Supercomputer Center whose own machines were broken into on Christmas Day 1994. His analysis of the IP-spoofing and TCP sequence-prediction attack, and the cell-tracking work that followed, led federal agents to Kevin Mitnick in Raleigh in February 1995.', note: 'Card 1’s opposite number. They belong in the same pack.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/011-tsutomu-shimomura-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/011-tsutomu-shimomura-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/011-tsutomu-shimomura/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/011-tsutomu-shimomura/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Tsutomu Shimomura', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Shimomura' }, { label: 'IP address spoofing — the technique used against him', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address_spoofing' }, @@ -341,8 +341,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Teenage authority on telephone switching systems and the public face of Masters of Deception. His 1994 prison sentence was widely read as a message being sent to a whole generation; New York magazine had already named him one of the city’s smartest people.', note: 'The last of the pure telephone hackers before the internet took over.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/012-mark-abene-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/012-mark-abene-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/012-mark-abene/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/012-mark-abene/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Mark Abene', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Abene' }, { label: 'Masters of Deception', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Deception' }, @@ -368,8 +368,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Ran in the same Los Angeles phreaking circles as Mitnick and Lewis De Payne and specialized in the human layer — pretext calls, trashed printouts, borrowed credentials. One of the very few women documented in the earliest scene, and she walked away from it entirely.', note: 'Written out of most retellings. This set puts her back in.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/013-susan-headley-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/013-susan-headley-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/013-susan-headley/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/013-susan-headley/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Susan Headley', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Headley' }, { label: 'Phreaking', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking' }, @@ -395,8 +395,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Broke into Microsoft, Yahoo and The New York Times from library terminals and coffee shops, usually telling the victim afterwards. In 2010 he reported Chelsea Manning to the authorities after she confided in him — a decision that split the community permanently. Died in 2018.', note: 'The most divisive card in the set, and it stays in. The history is the history.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/014-adrian-lamo-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/014-adrian-lamo-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/014-adrian-lamo/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/014-adrian-lamo/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Adrian Lamo', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Lamo' }, { label: 'Wired, 2011 — the Manning–Lamo chat logs', url: 'https://www.wired.com/2011/07/manning-lamo-logs/' }, @@ -422,8 +422,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Scanned US military and NASA networks for machines with blank administrator passwords and found plenty. US prosecutors called it the biggest military computer hack of all time; a decade-long extradition fight ended in 2012 when the UK Home Secretary blocked it on human-rights grounds.', note: 'Two words: no password. That is the whole exploit.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/015-gary-mckinnon-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/015-gary-mckinnon-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/015-gary-mckinnon/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/015-gary-mckinnon/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Gary McKinnon', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon' }, { label: 'BBC, 2012 — extradition to the US blocked', url: 'https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-19957138' }, @@ -449,8 +449,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'At fifteen, installed a backdoor on a Defense Threat Reduction Agency server and downloaded NASA software supporting the International Space Station. Sentenced in 2000 as the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime in the US. Died by suicide in 2008 while under investigation in an unrelated case he denied any part in.', note: 'A cautionary card. The set tells it straight or not at all.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/016-jonathan-james-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/016-jonathan-james-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/016-jonathan-james/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/016-jonathan-james/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Jonathan James', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_James' }, { label: 'Computer Fraud and Abuse Act', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act' }, @@ -476,8 +476,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'One of the seven L0pht members who testified to the Senate in 1998. Spent the following decades turning ad-hoc bug reporting into a process the industry could live with, then co-founded Veracode to make application security something you can actually buy.', note: 'Half the reason a vendor takes your bug report seriously today.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/017-chris-wysopal-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/017-chris-wysopal-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/017-chris-wysopal/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/017-chris-wysopal/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Chris Wysopal', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wysopal' }, { label: 'L0pht', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0pht' }, @@ -503,8 +503,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Created Microsoft’s first bug bounty program, then ran Hack the Pentagon, the first bounty program in the history of the US federal government. Fought to keep defensive research from being criminalized under the Wassenaar Arrangement, and founded Luta Security.', note: 'Turned “we do not pay for bugs” into an industry standard line item.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/018-katie-moussouris-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/018-katie-moussouris-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/018-katie-moussouris/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/018-katie-moussouris/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Katie Moussouris', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Moussouris' }, { label: 'Bug bounty programs', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_bounty_program' }, @@ -529,8 +529,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Presented Blue Pill at Black Hat 2006, a rootkit that moved a running OS into a hypervisor beneath it, and coined the Evil Maid attack for machines left unattended. Then built the answer: Qubes OS, a desktop that assumes compromise and isolates by compartment.', note: 'Broke the platform, then shipped a better one. Very few do both.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/019-joanna-rutkowska-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/019-joanna-rutkowska-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/019-joanna-rutkowska/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/019-joanna-rutkowska/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Joanna Rutkowska', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Rutkowska' }, { label: 'Blue Pill', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(software)' }, @@ -557,8 +557,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Wrote afl, the coverage-guided fuzzer that found thousands of bugs across the software everyone depends on and reset the state of the art for everyone else. Author of Silence on the Wire and The Tangled Web, and a long-time browser security lead at Google.', note: 'The bug-finding tool with the highest body count in open source history.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/020-michal-zalewski-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/020-michal-zalewski-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/020-michal-zalewski/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/020-michal-zalewski/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Michał Zalewski', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C5%82_Zalewski' }, { label: 'american fuzzy lop', url: 'https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/' }, @@ -585,8 +585,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Wrote John the Ripper, still the reference password cracker three decades on. Founded Openwall, pioneered non-executable stack patches for Linux, published early return-into-libc work, and runs the oss-security list where the industry argues about disclosure in public.', note: 'Runs the mailing list where your favorite CVE was first announced.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/021-solar-designer-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/021-solar-designer-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/021-solar-designer/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/021-solar-designer/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Alexander Peslyak', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Peslyak' }, { label: 'John the Ripper', url: 'https://www.openwall.com/john/' }, @@ -612,8 +612,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Released Metasploit in 2003 and turned exploit development from scattered one-off code into a shared, modular framework every penetration tester now learns first. Later ran internet-wide scanning projects that mapped just how much of the internet is quietly exposed.', note: 'Changed what a working exploit is worth by making them all free.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/022-hd-moore-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/022-hd-moore-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/022-hd-moore/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/022-hd-moore/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'HD Moore', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_Moore' }, { label: 'Metasploit', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasploit' }, @@ -638,8 +638,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Walked onto the Black Hat 2010 stage, ran his Jackpotting demo, and made two ATMs pour out cash in front of the room. Then turned to insulin pumps and pacemakers, showing that implanted medical devices could be attacked wirelessly. Died in 2013, days before he was due to present that research.', note: 'The most theatrical demo in the history of the conference circuit.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/023-barnaby-jack-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/023-barnaby-jack-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/023-barnaby-jack/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/023-barnaby-jack/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Barnaby Jack', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_Jack' }, { label: 'ATM security', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_teller_machine#Security' }, @@ -664,8 +664,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Won Pwn2Own repeatedly, was the first to publicly exploit the iPhone, and then, with Chris Valasek, cut the transmission of a Jeep Cherokee on a live highway from a couch miles away. Chrysler recalled 1.4 million vehicles. Automotive security became a real discipline overnight.', note: 'One demo, 1.4 million recalled vehicles. Hard to argue with the receipts.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/024-charlie-miller-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/024-charlie-miller-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/024-charlie-miller/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/024-charlie-miller/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Charlie Miller', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Miller_(security_researcher)' }, { label: 'Wired, 2015 — hackers remotely kill a Jeep on the highway', url: 'https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/' }, @@ -690,8 +690,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Reverse-engineered the internal networks of production vehicles and, with Miller, demonstrated full remote control of a Jeep Cherokee in 2015. Both went on to build security teams inside the autonomous-vehicle industry they had just put on notice.', note: 'Ships as a pair card with 24. Collectors will want both.', status: 'candidate', - front: '/cards/hacking/025-chris-valasek-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/025-chris-valasek-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/025-chris-valasek/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/025-chris-valasek/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Wired, 2015 — hackers remotely kill a Jeep on the highway', url: 'https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/' }, { label: '“Remote Exploitation of an Unaltered Passenger Vehicle” (PDF)', url: 'https://illmatics.com/Remote%20Car%20Hacking.pdf' }, @@ -717,8 +717,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Released a self-propagating cross-site scripting worm in 2005 that added over a million MySpace friends in under a day and took the site down. After his sentence he kept publishing: SkyJack, OwnStar, KeySweeper, and a long line of garage-door and car-key radio attacks explained on video for anyone.', note: 'The best explainer in the game. Half the set learned from his videos.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/026-samy-kamkar-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/026-samy-kamkar-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/026-samy-kamkar/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/026-samy-kamkar/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Samy Kamkar', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_Kamkar' }, { label: 'The Samy worm', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm)' }, @@ -745,8 +745,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'At seventeen, unlocked the original iPhone from its carrier. Then published PlayStation 3 root keys and was sued by Sony, in a case that became a rallying point for the right to modify hardware you own. Later founded comma.ai and worked on open self-driving.', note: 'The card about who actually owns the device in your pocket.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/027-george-hotz-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/027-george-hotz-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/027-george-hotz/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/027-george-hotz/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'George Hotz', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz' }, { label: 'Sony Computer Entertainment America v. Hotz', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_America,_Inc._v._Hotz' }, @@ -773,8 +773,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Reversing WannaCry as it tore through hospitals in May 2017, he spotted an unregistered domain in the code and bought it, unintentionally triggering the killswitch that halted the outbreak. Arrested months later over earlier banking-malware code he had written as a teenager; he pled guilty, was sentenced to time served, and now works in threat research.', note: 'Saved the NHS on a Friday and was arrested by August. Both halves are the card.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/028-marcus-hutchins/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Marcus Hutchins', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Hutchins' }, { label: 'The WannaCry ransomware attack', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack' }, @@ -800,8 +800,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Cracked GSM’s A5/1 encryption with rainbow tables, showed millions of SIM cards could be hijacked over the air with a text message, broke Mifare smartcards, and with Jakob Lell released BadUSB — proof that any USB device’s firmware can be reprogrammed to lie about what it is.', note: 'If it has a radio and a chip, he has probably already read the datasheet.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/029-karsten-nohl-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/029-karsten-nohl-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/029-karsten-nohl/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Karsten Nohl', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karsten_Nohl' }, { label: 'BadUSB', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadUSB' }, @@ -827,8 +827,8 @@ export const hackers: Hacker[] = [ 'Demonstrated SSLstrip and a run of attacks that exposed how fragile the certificate authority system really was. Then built Signal and the double-ratchet protocol behind it, which WhatsApp and others adopted — quietly putting end-to-end encryption in front of billions of people.', note: 'Attacked the transport layer, then rewrote it. The set’s highest-leverage card.', status: 'draft', - front: '/cards/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike-front.png', - back: '/cards/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/hacking/030-moxie-marlinspike/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Moxie Marlinspike', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike' }, { label: 'The Signal Protocol', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol' }, diff --git a/src/data/security.ts b/src/data/security.ts index 371f256f..dfb8ea61 100644 --- a/src/data/security.ts +++ b/src/data/security.ts @@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'With Martin Hellman, published “New Directions in Cryptography” in 1976 and showed that two parties who had never met could agree on a secret over a wire anyone could read. It broke a problem the field had considered permanent, and every TLS handshake since is a descendant. Shared the 2015 Turing Award for it, and spent decades afterwards arguing the civil-liberties side of the crypto policy fights.', note: 'The paper that made secure commerce on a public network conceivable at all.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/001-whitfield-diffie-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/001-whitfield-diffie-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/001-whitfield-diffie/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/001-whitfield-diffie/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Whitfield Diffie', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie' }, { label: 'New Directions in Cryptography (1976)', url: 'https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf' }, @@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Co-author of the 1976 paper and Stanford professor who then refused to let the NSA classify academic cryptography out of existence, publishing and teaching through explicit pressure to stop. Also co-authored the early analysis of DES key length that argued, correctly and years early, that 56 bits was not enough. Shared the 2015 Turing Award with Diffie.', note: 'Won the maths, then won the argument about who is allowed to do the maths.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/002-martin-hellman-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/002-martin-hellman-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/002-martin-hellman/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/002-martin-hellman/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Martin Hellman', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Hellman' }, { label: 'ACM A.M. Turing Award 2015', url: 'https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/hellman_4055781.cfm' }, @@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Co-invented the RSA cryptosystem at MIT in 1977 with Shamir and Adleman, turning public-key cryptography from a proposal into something you could ship. Went on to design MD2, MD4, MD5, RC4, RC5 and RC6, co-author the standard algorithms textbook, and spend his later career on verifiable election systems. Turing Award, 2002.', note: 'Half the acronyms in a 1990s protocol stack trace back to one office at MIT.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/003-ron-rivest-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/003-ron-rivest-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/003-ron-rivest/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/003-ron-rivest/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Ron Rivest', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Rivest' }, { label: 'ACM A.M. Turing Award 2002', url: 'https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/rivest_1403005.cfm' }, @@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Co-invented RSA, then invented Shamir secret sharing, then co-developed differential cryptanalysis with Eli Biham — the technique that turned out to be the one the DES designers had quietly hardened against seventeen years earlier. Also a co-author of the cube attack and a long line of side-channel work. Turing Award, 2002.', note: 'Builds the lock and breaks the lock, usually in the same decade.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/004-adi-shamir-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/004-adi-shamir-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/004-adi-shamir/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/004-adi-shamir/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Adi Shamir', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shamir' }, { label: 'Differential cryptanalysis', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_cryptanalysis' }, @@ -165,8 +165,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'The third name on the RSA paper, whose role was to keep breaking the schemes Rivest and Shamir proposed until one survived. Later coined the term “computer virus” for Fred Cohen’s 1983 experiments, and founded DNA computing with a molecular solution to the Hamiltonian path problem. Turing Award, 2002.', note: 'The designated attacker on the RSA team. The set needs more of those.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/005-leonard-adleman-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/005-leonard-adleman-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/005-leonard-adleman/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/005-leonard-adleman/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Leonard Adleman', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Adleman' }, { label: 'ACM A.M. Turing Award 2002', url: 'https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/adleman_7308544.cfm' }, @@ -191,8 +191,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Released Pretty Good Privacy as free software in 1991, and it escaped onto the internet worldwide. The US government opened a three-year criminal investigation into him for munitions export, dropped it in 1996 without charges, and the crypto-export regime never recovered. He later co-founded Silent Circle and worked on ZRTP for encrypted voice.', note: 'The card for everyone who has ever typed a passphrase to read their own mail.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/006-phil-zimmermann-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/006-phil-zimmermann-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/006-phil-zimmermann/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/006-phil-zimmermann/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Phil Zimmermann', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann' }, { label: 'Pretty Good Privacy', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy' }, @@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Wrote Applied Cryptography in 1994, the book that taught a generation of engineers how ciphers actually work, then designed Blowfish and co-designed Twofish. Spent the two decades after arguing the harder point: that security is a systems and incentives problem, not a maths problem. Coined “security theatre”, has written the Crypto-Gram newsletter since 1998, and helped report on the Snowden documents.', note: 'More people entered this field because of one book than any other single cause.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/007-bruce-schneier-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/007-bruce-schneier-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/007-bruce-schneier/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/007-bruce-schneier/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Bruce Schneier', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Schneier' }, { label: 'Schneier on Security', url: 'https://www.schneier.com/' }, @@ -243,8 +243,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Published the timing-attack paper in 1996 and differential power analysis in 1999, establishing that a correct implementation of a correct algorithm can still leak its key through how long it takes or how much current it draws. Co-authored the SSL 3.0 specification, founded Cryptography Research, and in 2018 was one of the co-discoverers of Spectre.', note: 'Twice made the whole industry re-audit hardware it had already shipped.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/008-paul-kocher-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/008-paul-kocher-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/008-paul-kocher/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/008-paul-kocher/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Paul Kocher', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kocher' }, { label: 'Spectre (security vulnerability)', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability)' }, @@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Published “An Intrusion-Detection Model” in 1987, the paper that framed detection as statistical deviation from a profile of normal behaviour and gave the entire monitoring industry its foundation. Also wrote Cryptography and Data Security, worked on database security and lattice-based information flow, and was one of the few academics engaging seriously with both sides of the Clipper chip debate.', note: 'Every alert queue in every SOC is downstream of one 1987 paper.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/009-dorothy-denning-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/009-dorothy-denning-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/009-dorothy-denning/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/009-dorothy-denning/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Dorothy E. Denning', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_E._Denning' }, { label: 'An Intrusion-Detection Model (1987)', url: 'https://www.cs.colostate.edu/~cs656/reading/ieee-se-13-2.pdf' }, @@ -297,8 +297,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Produced one of the first detailed technical analyses of the 1988 Morris worm while the internet was still smoking, co-wrote Practical UNIX and Internet Security with Simson Garfinkel, co-created Tripwire, and founded Purdue’s COAST lab and then CERIAS — for years the largest academic security centre in the US. Has advised more federal panels than most people have attended.', note: 'Trained a large fraction of the people on the rest of these cards.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/010-gene-spafford-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/010-gene-spafford-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/010-gene-spafford/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/010-gene-spafford/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Gene Spafford', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Spafford' }, { label: 'CERIAS, Purdue University', url: 'https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/' }, @@ -323,8 +323,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Cambridge professor who wrote Security Engineering, the closest thing the field has to a canonical text, and gave away earlier editions free online. Founded the security-economics research programme with the observation that systems fail because the people who could fix them are not the people who bear the loss. Spent years demonstrating that bank chip-and-PIN systems were weaker than the banks told courts they were. Died in 2024.', note: 'If you only read one book on this list, it is this one.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/011-ross-anderson-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/011-ross-anderson-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/011-ross-anderson/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Ross J. Anderson', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_J._Anderson' }, { label: 'Security Engineering, third edition', url: 'https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html' }, @@ -349,8 +349,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Found the protocol flaw in the NSA’s Clipper chip escrow scheme in 1994 and published it, which did more to end mandated key escrow than any amount of lobbying. Later led state-commissioned source reviews of US voting systems, published work on the vulnerabilities of master-keyed physical locks and wiretap systems, and became a law-school professor arguing the same points to a different audience.', note: 'Has broken the government’s preferred backdoor design once already.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/012-matt-blaze-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/012-matt-blaze-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/012-matt-blaze/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Matt Blaze', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Blaze' }, { label: 'Protocol Failure in the Escrowed Encryption Standard (1994)', url: 'https://www.mattblaze.org/papers/eesproto.pdf' }, @@ -375,8 +375,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Invented the spanning-tree protocol that made large bridged Ethernets possible, and did the early work on routing protocols designed to keep functioning when a participating node is actively hostile rather than merely broken. Co-wrote Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World, and designed the “ephemerizer” approach to making data reliably expire.', note: 'Designed for the assumption that some of the network is lying to you.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/013-radia-perlman-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/013-radia-perlman-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/013-radia-perlman/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/013-radia-perlman/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Radia Perlman', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman' }, { label: 'Internet Hall of Fame profile', url: 'https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/radia-perlman/' }, @@ -401,8 +401,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Wrote the 1989 paper cataloguing the security problems in TCP/IP — sequence-number prediction, source routing, DNS spoofing — years before anyone was exploiting them at scale. Co-authored Firewalls and Internet Security with Cheswick, co-invented encrypted key exchange, was a Usenet co-creator, and served as chief technologist at the FTC and on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.', note: 'Published the attack list first and spent thirty years watching it come true.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/014-steven-bellovin-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/014-steven-bellovin-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/014-steven-bellovin/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/014-steven-bellovin/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Steven M. Bellovin', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_M._Bellovin' }, { label: 'Security Problems in the TCP/IP Protocol Suite (1989)', url: 'https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/ipext.pdf' }, @@ -428,8 +428,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Co-wrote the 1994 book that taught the industry what a firewall was and how to reason about a perimeter. “An Evening with Berferd” documented him feeding a live intruder a fake environment for months and writing down everything, which is the honeypot genre’s founding text. Later ran the Internet Mapping Project at Bell Labs.', note: 'Invented the practice of watching the attacker instead of just shutting the door.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/015-william-cheswick-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/015-william-cheswick-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/015-william-cheswick/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/015-william-cheswick/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'William Cheswick', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cheswick' }, { label: 'An Evening with Berferd (1992)', url: 'https://www.cheswick.com/ches/papers/berferd.pdf' }, @@ -454,8 +454,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Built DEC SEAL, generally credited as the first commercial firewall product, then the TIS Firewall Toolkit and Gauntlet — the code most early internet perimeters were actually made of. Ran whitehouse.gov’s first email server. Has spent the decades since publicly arguing that most of what the industry sells does not work, which has aged better than the products did.', note: 'The perimeter, as an idea people could buy, is largely his fault and his credit.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/016-marcus-ranum-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/016-marcus-ranum-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/016-marcus-ranum/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/016-marcus-ranum/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Marcus J. Ranum', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_J._Ranum' }, { label: 'Firewall (computing) — history', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(computing)' }, @@ -480,8 +480,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Wrote TCP Wrapper, which for years was the access control on a very large share of Unix hosts on the internet, and Postfix, a mail server written from the start around privilege separation. Co-wrote SATAN with Dan Farmer and later the Coroner’s Toolkit and Forensic Discovery, giving incident responders their first real open tooling.', note: 'Shipped the defence, then shipped the tools to work out how it was beaten.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/017-wietse-venema-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/017-wietse-venema-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/017-wietse-venema/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/017-wietse-venema/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Wietse Venema', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wietse_Venema' }, { label: 'Postfix', url: 'https://www.postfix.org/' }, @@ -506,8 +506,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Wrote COPS as a student, then in 1995 released SATAN with Wietse Venema — a scanner that audited a network the way an attacker would, published openly so defenders could run it first. The press predicted the end of the internet; SGI fired him over it; the security scanner became a permanent product category. Later co-wrote Forensic Discovery.', note: 'The original argument that defenders should get the attacker’s tools too.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/018-dan-farmer-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/018-dan-farmer-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/018-dan-farmer/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/018-dan-farmer/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Dan Farmer', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Farmer' }, { label: 'SATAN', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Administrator_Tool_for_Analyzing_Networks' }, @@ -533,8 +533,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Released Nmap in Phrack in 1997 and has maintained it ever since, adding OS fingerprinting, service detection and the NSE scripting engine. Runs seclists.org, hosting the Bugtraq and Full Disclosure archives that are the field’s institutional memory, and fought MPAA and studio takedown attempts over the tool. Nmap is the first command most defenders learn.', note: 'Twenty-eight years of one maintainer. The reliability is the achievement.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/019-gordon-lyon-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/019-gordon-lyon-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/019-gordon-lyon/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/019-gordon-lyon/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Gordon Lyon', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Lyon' }, { label: 'Nmap', url: 'https://nmap.org/' }, @@ -559,8 +559,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Wrote Snort in 1998 as a lightweight packet sniffer, and it became the intrusion detection system that put IDS within reach of organisations that could never have bought one. Founded Sourcefire around it, which Cisco acquired in 2013. The Snort rule syntax outlived the product and is still how a large part of the industry writes network detections.', note: 'A weekend tool that became the de facto standard for network detection.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/020-martin-roesch-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/020-martin-roesch-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/020-martin-roesch/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/020-martin-roesch/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Martin Roesch', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Roesch' }, { label: 'Snort', url: 'https://www.snort.org/' }, @@ -585,8 +585,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Started Ethereal in 1998 because commercial protocol analysers cost more than his employer would spend, renamed it Wireshark in 2006 after a trademark problem, and has shepherded it ever since through thousands of contributed protocol dissectors. It is the default answer to “what is actually on the wire” for network engineers and incident responders alike.', note: 'The tool you reach for when nobody can agree on what the traffic is doing.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/021-gerald-combs-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/021-gerald-combs-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/021-gerald-combs/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/021-gerald-combs/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Wireshark', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireshark' }, { label: 'Wireshark project', url: 'https://www.wireshark.org/about.html' }, @@ -611,8 +611,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Released Nessus in 1998 as a free scanner with its own plugin language, at a point when the alternative was an expensive appliance. Co-founded Tenable Network Security around it in 2002 and took the product closed-source in 2005, a decision the community argued about for years. Vulnerability management as a routine operational practice largely grew out of that codebase.', note: 'The scan report that lands in an admin’s inbox every Monday started here.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/022-renaud-deraison-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/022-renaud-deraison-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/022-renaud-deraison/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/022-renaud-deraison/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Nessus (software)', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessus_(software)' }, { label: 'Tenable leadership', url: 'https://www.tenable.com/about-tenable/leadership' }, @@ -637,8 +637,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Maintained BIND for years and wrote or co-wrote a long run of DNS RFCs, then built the response-policy zone mechanism that lets defenders block malicious domains at the resolver. Founded the first anti-spam DNSBL, ran the Internet Software Consortium, operates F-root, and co-founded Farsight Security around passive DNS. Internet Hall of Fame, 2014.', note: 'Ran the plumbing, then built the filters when the plumbing got abused.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/023-paul-vixie-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/023-paul-vixie-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/023-paul-vixie/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/023-paul-vixie/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Paul Vixie', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie' }, { label: 'Internet Hall of Fame profile', url: 'https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/paul-vixie/' }, @@ -663,8 +663,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Wrote honeyd, co-designed the bcrypt password hash with David Mazières, and created systrace and privilege separation work in OpenSSH. At Google he led the Safe Browsing malware research that put interstitial warnings in front of drive-by download sites, and co-authored the papers that measured how large that problem actually was.', note: 'bcrypt alone has protected more passwords than most companies have users.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/024-niels-provos-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/024-niels-provos-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/024-niels-provos/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/024-niels-provos/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Niels Provos', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Provos' }, { label: 'A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme (bcrypt, 1999)', url: 'https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix99/provos/provos.pdf' }, @@ -689,8 +689,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Was an information security officer at Yahoo before founding WhiteHat Security in 2001, where continuous scanning of thousands of production sites produced the first credible public statistics on how long real web vulnerabilities actually stay open. Co-founded the Web Application Security Consortium, and co-authored XSS Attacks: Cross Site Scripting Exploits and Defense in 2007 — the book that turned cross-site scripting from a curiosity into a class of bug developers were expected to know.', note: 'The XSS book is still the reference. Web appsec became a discipline on his watch.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/025-jeremiah-grossman-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/025-jeremiah-grossman-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/025-jeremiah-grossman/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/025-jeremiah-grossman/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'XSS Attacks: Cross Site Scripting Exploits and Defense', url: 'https://books.google.com/books/about/XSS_Attacks.html?id=FKN5uL57tyAC' }, { label: 'Jeremiah Grossman’s blog', url: 'https://blog.jeremiahgrossman.com/' }, @@ -717,8 +717,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Ran ha.ckers.org and published the XSS cheat sheet, which for years was the reference list of filter-evasion payloads that every web application firewall was tested against. Co-authored XSS Attacks with Grossman, released Slowloris to demonstrate that a single machine could hold a web server’s connections open indefinitely, and co-wrote Detecting Malice on behavioural detection.', note: 'The cheat sheet did more for input validation than any standards document.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/026-robert-hansen-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/026-robert-hansen-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/026-robert-hansen/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/026-robert-hansen/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'XSS Attacks: Cross Site Scripting Exploits and Defense', url: 'https://books.google.com/books/about/XSS_Attacks.html?id=FKN5uL57tyAC' }, { label: 'Slowloris (computer security)', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris_(cyber_attack)' }, @@ -743,8 +743,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Started the Open Web Application Security Project in September 2001 as a mailing list and a few documents, and it became the vendor-neutral body that produced the Top Ten, the ASVS, ZAP and the testing guides that appsec teams still work from. Later founded SourceClear on software composition analysis and has kept publicly pushing OWASP to stay relevant to modern supply-chain risk.', note: 'Built the commons the whole application security industry now cites.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/027-mark-curphey-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/027-mark-curphey-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/027-mark-curphey/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/027-mark-curphey/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'OWASP', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OWASP' }, { label: 'Mark Curphey — OWASP Foundation', url: 'https://owasp.org/www-board-candidates/2022/mark_curphey_2022' }, @@ -769,8 +769,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Wrote the first OWASP Top Ten and served as the volunteer chair of OWASP from 2003 to 2011, the years in which it went from a mailing list to the reference that PCI DSS and a long line of other standards cite by name. Co-founded Aspect Security and then Contrast Security, arguing for instrumentation inside the running application rather than scanning it from outside.', note: 'One list, and suddenly every auditor knew what SQL injection was.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/028-jeff-williams-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/028-jeff-williams-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/028-jeff-williams/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/028-jeff-williams/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'OWASP', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OWASP' }, { label: 'OWASP Top Ten project', url: 'https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/' }, @@ -795,8 +795,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Wrote Building Secure Software, Exploiting Software and Software Security, making the case that you cannot test defects out of a system you designed insecurely. Co-created BSIMM, which measures what security programmes actually do rather than what a standard says they should, and has run a long-standing interview series documenting the field’s own history.', note: 'Moved the argument from “scan it later” to “design it right”.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/029-gary-mcgraw-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/029-gary-mcgraw-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/029-gary-mcgraw/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/029-gary-mcgraw/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Gary McGraw', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McGraw' }, { label: 'BSIMM', url: 'https://www.bsimm.com/' }, @@ -821,8 +821,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Co-wrote Writing Secure Code, which Bill Gates ordered Windows engineers to read during the 2002 Trustworthy Computing halt, and helped build the Security Development Lifecycle that came out of it — threat modelling, banned APIs, fuzzing and a final security review before ship. The SDL became the template most large software organisations copied.', note: 'Turned “be careful” into a checklist an entire company could be held to.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/030-michael-howard-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/030-michael-howard-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/030-michael-howard/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/030-michael-howard/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Security_Development_Lifecycle' }, { label: 'Writing Secure Code, second edition', url: 'https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/store/writing-secure-code-9780735617223' }, @@ -847,8 +847,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Drove threat modelling into shippable practice at Microsoft, including the Elevation of Privilege card game that got non-security engineers doing it voluntarily, then wrote Threat Modeling: Designing for Security and later Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn. Served on the CVE editorial board and co-wrote The New School of Information Security on learning from breach data.', note: 'Four questions — what are we building, what can go wrong, what do we do, did we do a good job.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/031-adam-shostack-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/031-adam-shostack-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/031-adam-shostack/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/031-adam-shostack/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Adam Shostack’s site', url: 'https://shostack.org/about/adam' }, { label: 'Elevation of Privilege threat modelling game', url: 'https://shostack.org/games/elevation-of-privilege' }, @@ -873,8 +873,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Wrote ModSecurity, the open-source web application firewall that became the reference implementation and the base of the OWASP Core Rule Set. Then built SSL Labs, whose A-to-F grade for a server’s TLS configuration turned an obscure ops detail into something executives asked about, and wrote Bulletproof TLS and PKI as the manual for fixing the grade.', note: 'Made bad TLS visible and embarrassing, which fixed more of it than any RFC.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/032-ivan-ristic-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/032-ivan-ristic-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/032-ivan-ristic/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/032-ivan-ristic/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Ivan Ristić', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Risti%C4%87' }, { label: 'Qualys SSL Labs', url: 'https://www.ssllabs.com/' }, @@ -899,8 +899,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Co-wrote The Art of Software Security Assessment with John McDonald and Justin Schuh, still the most thorough published treatment of how to find memory-safety and logic flaws by reading code. Found deep bugs in Sendmail, OpenSSH and Flash while at ISS X-Force and IBM, and founded Azimuth Security. His work is why a generation of auditors know what to look for in a parser.', note: 'The book that turned code review from a chore into a craft.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/033-mark-dowd-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/033-mark-dowd-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/033-mark-dowd/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/033-mark-dowd/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'The Art of Software Security Assessment', url: 'https://www.informit.com/store/art-of-software-security-assessment-identifying-and-9780321444424' }, { label: 'Azimuth Security', url: 'https://www.azimuthsecurity.com/' }, @@ -926,8 +926,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Built the graph-based binary diffing that made it routine to extract the vulnerability out of a vendor patch, founded zynamics around BinDiff and VxClass, and sold it to Google in 2011. Later worked in Project Zero and wrote the “weird machines” framing that treats exploitation as programming an unintended state machine inside the target.', note: 'Turned Patch Tuesday into a reliable source of exploit intelligence.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/034-halvar-flake-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/034-halvar-flake-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/034-halvar-flake/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/034-halvar-flake/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'BinDiff', url: 'https://www.zynamics.com/bindiff.html' }, { label: 'Thomas Dullien’s research blog', url: 'https://addxorrol.blogspot.com/' }, @@ -952,8 +952,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Co-authored “Bypassing Browser Memory Protections”, the 2008 paper that showed how attackers were routing around DEP and ASLR, then at 25C3 the same year demonstrated a working rogue certificate authority built on MD5 collisions — which pushed the CA industry off MD5 for good. Co-founded Trail of Bits.', note: 'Demonstrated the theoretical break against a live CA, which is the only kind that moves anyone.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/035-alex-sotirov-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/035-alex-sotirov-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/035-alex-sotirov/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/035-alex-sotirov/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'MD5 considered harmful today (2008)', url: 'https://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/' }, { label: 'Bypassing Browser Memory Protections (2008)', url: 'https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-08/Sotirov_Dowd/bh08-sotirov-dowd.pdf' }, @@ -978,8 +978,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Co-wrote the 1998 paper with Timothy Newsham showing that a network IDS which reassembles traffic differently from the host it protects can be walked straight past — the work that forced every vendor to rethink normalisation. Co-founded Matasano and later Latacora, and wrote the Cryptopals challenges that taught a generation how crypto actually breaks.', note: 'One paper made every IDS vendor rewrite their TCP stack.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/036-thomas-ptacek-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/036-thomas-ptacek-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/036-thomas-ptacek/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/036-thomas-ptacek/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Insertion, Evasion, and Denial of Service (1998)', url: 'https://insecure.org/stf/secnet_ids/secnet_ids.html' }, { label: 'The Cryptopals crypto challenges', url: 'https://cryptopals.com/' }, @@ -1004,8 +1004,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Johns Hopkins cryptographer who co-led the Open Crypto Audit Project’s review of TrueCrypt, contributed to the analysis of Dual_EC_DRBG and the RSA BSAFE backdoor, and worked on the attacks behind Logjam and DROWN. His blog is the standard place the rest of the industry goes to find out how badly a new crypto story is being reported.', note: 'Does the audit, then does the translation so the rest of us can follow it.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/037-matthew-green-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/037-matthew-green-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/037-matthew-green/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/037-matthew-green/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Matthew D. Green', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_D._Green' }, { label: 'A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering', url: 'https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/' }, @@ -1030,8 +1030,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Co-authored the cold boot attack paper showing DRAM retains keys after power off, then spent a career demonstrating — in court and in front of legislatures — that deployed voting machines could be reprogrammed. Co-founded the Internet Security Research Group behind Let’s Encrypt, and co-authored the ZMap internet-wide scanner and the Logjam and FREAK results.', note: 'Let’s Encrypt alone changed the default state of the web from plaintext to TLS.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/038-j-alex-halderman-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/038-j-alex-halderman-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/038-j-alex-halderman/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/038-j-alex-halderman/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'J. Alex Halderman', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Alex_Halderman' }, { label: 'Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys', url: 'https://citp.princeton.edu/our-work/memory/' }, @@ -1056,8 +1056,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Co-authored “Mining Your Ps and Qs”, which scanned the whole IPv4 internet and found that a meaningful share of TLS and SSH keys shared factors because embedded devices generated them without entropy — and then factored them. Followed it with Logjam, DROWN and FREAK, a body of work whose method is: measure what is actually deployed, then break the weak part.', note: 'Proved the crypto was fine and the random number generators were not.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/039-nadia-heninger-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/039-nadia-heninger-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/039-nadia-heninger/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/039-nadia-heninger/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Nadia Heninger', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Heninger' }, { label: 'Mining Your Ps and Qs (USENIX Security 2012)', url: 'https://factorable.net/paper.html' }, @@ -1082,8 +1082,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Built Have I Been Pwned in 2013 as a way for ordinary people to find out whether their account was in a dump, and it became infrastructure: browsers, password managers and the NIST-endorsed practice of checking passwords against known-breached lists all query it, using a k-anonymity scheme that never sends the password. Runs it as a public good rather than a product.', note: 'One person’s side project ended up inside the login flow of half the web.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/040-troy-hunt-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/040-troy-hunt-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/040-troy-hunt/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/040-troy-hunt/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Troy Hunt', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Hunt' }, { label: 'Have I Been Pwned', url: 'https://haveibeenpwned.com/' }, @@ -1108,8 +1108,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Was security lead and signoff for Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003, co-wrote the Threat Modeling book that came out of that era, then ran security at Mozilla for Firefox, at Apple on privacy and security strategy, at Fastly and Square, and became Intel’s first chief software security officer. Founded Thistle Technologies in 2020 to bring update infrastructure to embedded devices.', note: 'Has been the person accountable for a shipping product’s security more times than anyone.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/041-window-snyder-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/041-window-snyder-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/041-window-snyder/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/041-window-snyder/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Window Snyder', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_Snyder' }, { label: 'Thistle Technologies', url: 'https://thistle.tech/' }, @@ -1134,8 +1134,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'A founding member of Google’s security team who built and ran its incident response function, including the response to the 2009 Operation Aurora intrusion that Google chose to disclose publicly — a decision that reset industry norms on breach transparency. Co-authored Building Secure and Reliable Systems, and has served on US federal cybersecurity advisory bodies.', note: 'Ran the response that made public disclosure of a state intrusion normal.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/042-heather-adkins-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/042-heather-adkins-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/042-heather-adkins/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/042-heather-adkins/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Building Secure and Reliable Systems', url: 'https://sre.google/books/building-secure-reliable-systems/' }, { label: 'Operation Aurora', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora' }, @@ -1160,8 +1160,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Joined Google as a penetration tester, printed “Security Princess” on her business card, and rose to run Chrome. Led the multi-year project to mark plain HTTP as “Not secure” in the world’s most-used browser, which more than anything else moved the web to encryption by default, and pushed Project Zero’s 90-day disclosure deadline as an industry-wide forcing function.', note: 'Changed one string in a browser UI and moved the whole web to TLS.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/043-parisa-tabriz-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/043-parisa-tabriz-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/043-parisa-tabriz/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/043-parisa-tabriz/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Parisa Tabriz', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parisa_Tabriz' }, { label: 'Chromium: marking HTTP as not secure', url: 'https://blog.chromium.org/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here-to-stay.html' }, @@ -1186,8 +1186,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Was CISO at Yahoo, where he objected to a government email-scanning programme, then CSO at Facebook through the investigation into foreign influence operations, leaving in 2018 over how much the company would disclose. Publicly challenged the NSA director on encryption backdoors, founded the Stanford Internet Observatory, and co-founded iSEC Partners and later Krebs Stamos Group.', note: 'The card about what the job costs when you do it honestly.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/044-alex-stamos-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/044-alex-stamos-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/044-alex-stamos/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/044-alex-stamos/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Alex Stamos', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Stamos' }, { label: 'Stanford Internet Observatory', url: 'https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io' }, @@ -1212,8 +1212,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Co-authored the 2003 CCIA report arguing that monoculture in operating systems was itself a national security risk, and was fired by @stake, then a Microsoft consultancy, the day it was published. Went on to serve as chief information security officer of In-Q-Tel and to give a run of Black Hat and USENIX keynotes that are still the most quoted long-form arguments about security policy the field has produced.', note: 'Paid for the paper with his job, and the paper was right.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/045-dan-geer-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/045-dan-geer-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/045-dan-geer/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/045-dan-geer/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Dan Geer', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Geer' }, { label: 'CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly (2003)', url: 'https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2003/09/cyberinsecurity_the.html' }, @@ -1238,8 +1238,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Founded Mandiant in 2004 and built breach response into a business that governments and Fortune 100 boards call at 2am. In 2013 the company published APT1, a report attributing years of intrusions to a specific People’s Liberation Army unit with building photographs and operator handles — the moment public, named attribution became something private companies did.', note: 'Made attribution a commercial deliverable instead of a classified one.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/046-kevin-mandia-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/046-kevin-mandia-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/046-kevin-mandia/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/046-kevin-mandia/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Mandiant', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandiant' }, { label: 'APT1: Exposing One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units (2013)', url: 'https://www.mandiant.com/resources/reports/apt1-exposing-one-chinas-cyber-espionage-units' }, @@ -1264,8 +1264,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Has been analysing malware at F-Secure since 1991, through the DOS virus era, Sasser and Blaster, Stuxnet and modern ransomware. Tracked down and interviewed the Pakistani brothers who wrote Brain, the first PC virus, twenty years after the fact. Formulated Hyppönen’s law — if it is smart, it is vulnerable — and is the researcher most often trusted to explain a live incident to the public.', note: 'The continuity card. One person watched the entire history of malware happen.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/047-mikko-hypponen-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/047-mikko-hypponen-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/047-mikko-hypponen/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/047-mikko-hypponen/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Mikko Hyppönen', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikko_Hypp%C3%B6nen' }, { label: 'Brain (computer virus)', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_(computer_virus)' }, @@ -1290,8 +1290,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'A former US Air Force cyber warfare officer who co-authored the analysis of the 2015 Ukrainian power grid attack and the later CRASHOVERRIDE and TRISIS malware, then founded Dragos to do industrial control system defence as a specialism rather than an IT afterthought. Co-wrote the SANS ICS courses that most OT defenders come through.', note: 'The set’s reminder that some networks fail into a physical consequence.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/048-robert-m-lee-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/048-robert-m-lee-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/048-robert-m-lee/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/048-robert-m-lee/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Robert M. Lee — Dragos', url: 'https://www.dragos.com/leadership/robert-m-lee/' }, { label: 'Analysis of the Cyber Attack on the Ukrainian Power Grid (SANS/E-ISAC, 2016)', url: 'https://www.nerc.com/pa/CI/ESISAC/Documents/E-ISAC_SANS_Ukraine_DUC_18Mar2016.pdf' }, @@ -1317,8 +1317,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Led incident response at Motorola Solutions and then at Dragos, running investigations inside live industrial networks where you cannot simply reimage the plant. Writes long-running public guidance on breaking into and surviving the profession, founded PancakesCon, and holds the SANS Lifetime Achievement Award for that work as much as the casework.', note: 'The mentorship is the contribution. Half a conference floor learned from those posts.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/049-lesley-carhart-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/049-lesley-carhart-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/049-lesley-carhart/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/049-lesley-carhart/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Lesley Carhart', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Carhart' }, { label: 'Lesley Carhart’s blog', url: 'https://tisiphone.net/about/' }, @@ -1343,8 +1343,8 @@ export const pros: Pro[] = [ 'Was the threat intelligence lead for MITRE ATT&CK during the years it became the shared vocabulary defenders use to describe adversary behaviour, then went to Red Canary as director of intelligence. Teaches the SANS cyber threat intelligence course and spends most of her public work on the unglamorous question of how an intelligence report turns into a detection someone actually deploys.', note: 'ATT&CK gave the blue team a language. This is the card for the person who taught it.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/security/050-katie-nickels-front.png', - back: '/cards/security/050-katie-nickels-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/security/050-katie-nickels/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/security/050-katie-nickels/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'MITRE ATT&CK', url: 'https://attack.mitre.org/' }, { label: 'Katie Nickels — SANS Institute', url: 'https://www.sans.org/profiles/katie-nickels/' }, diff --git a/src/data/women.ts b/src/data/women.ts index 3676ab63..143432b4 100644 --- a/src/data/women.ts +++ b/src/data/women.ts @@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Her 1843 notes on Babbage’s Analytical Engine ran three times longer than the paper she was translating and contained Note G, a step-by-step method for computing Bernoulli numbers that is generally read as the first published algorithm. More striking is that she argued the machine could act on things other than numbers, which nobody else did for a century.', note: 'Understood what the machine was for before one had ever been built.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/001-ada-lovelace-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/001-ada-lovelace-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/001-ada-lovelace/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/001-ada-lovelace/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Ada Lovelace', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace' }, { label: 'Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes (1843)', url: 'https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html' }, @@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Wrote the A-0 system in 1952, the first compiler, against a field that told her computers could only do arithmetic. Drove the design of FLOW-MATIC and then COBOL, which put business programming into something close to English and ran the world’s finance for decades. Rear Admiral, and the reason anyone says a program has a bug.', note: 'Argued that code should be readable by humans and won, permanently.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/002-grace-hopper-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/002-grace-hopper-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/002-grace-hopper/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/002-grace-hopper/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Grace Hopper', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper' }, { label: 'The A-0 compiler', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-0_System' }, @@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Led the team that wrote the Apollo onboard flight software at MIT, including the priority scheduling that let the guidance computer shed lower-priority work during the 1202 alarms three minutes before the lunar landing rather than fail. She coined the term software engineering, partly to get the discipline taken seriously.', note: 'The landing happened because her code knew what to drop under load.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/003-margaret-hamilton-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/003-margaret-hamilton-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/003-margaret-hamilton/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/003-margaret-hamilton/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Margaret Hamilton', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)' }, { label: 'Apollo Guidance Computer source', url: 'https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11' }, @@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Computed trajectories for Alan Shepard’s flight and the Apollo missions at NASA Langley. When the agency moved to electronic computers for John Glenn’s orbit, Glenn asked for her to check the machine’s numbers by hand before he would fly. Co-authored a 1960 report on orbital calculation, unusual for a woman at Langley then.', note: 'The astronaut trusted her arithmetic over the computer, and he was not wrong to.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/004-katherine-johnson-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/004-katherine-johnson-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/004-katherine-johnson/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/004-katherine-johnson/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Katherine Johnson', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson' }, { label: 'NASA biography', url: 'https://www.nasa.gov/people/katherine-johnson-biography/' }, @@ -180,8 +180,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'NASA’s first Black supervisor, running the segregated West Area Computing unit. Seeing that the arriving IBM machines would make human computers obsolete, she taught herself FORTRAN and then taught her staff, moving the whole group into programming rather than out of work. That is a rarer kind of technical foresight than the usual sort.', note: 'Saw the automation coming and retrained her entire team ahead of it.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/005-dorothy-vaughan-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/005-dorothy-vaughan-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/005-dorothy-vaughan/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/005-dorothy-vaughan/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Dorothy Vaughan', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Vaughan' }, { label: 'NASA biography', url: 'https://www.nasa.gov/people/dorothy-vaughan-biography/' }, @@ -206,8 +206,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'One of the six women who programmed ENIAC by physically rewiring it, working from logic diagrams because no programming language or manual existed. They were called operators and left out of the 1946 press photographs. She went on to help convert ENIAC to a stored-program machine and to work on BINAC and UNIVAC.', note: 'Invented the job while doing it, then watched the men be photographed.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/006-jean-bartik-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/006-jean-bartik-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/006-jean-bartik/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/006-jean-bartik/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Jean Bartik', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bartik' }, { label: 'ENIAC programmers', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC#Programmers' }, @@ -232,8 +232,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'ENIAC programmer who went on to write the sort-merge generator for UNIVAC, an early instance of a program that writes a program. She argued for the UNIVAC console being grey rather than black on human-factors grounds, worked on the C-10 instruction set, and later contributed to the COBOL and FORTRAN standards.', note: 'Wrote code that wrote code, in 1951, on a machine with mercury memory.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/007-betty-holberton-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/007-betty-holberton-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/007-betty-holberton/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/007-betty-holberton/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Betty Holberton', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton' }, { label: 'ENIAC programmers', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC#Programmers' }, @@ -258,8 +258,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Wrote what is generally considered the first assembly language, for the ARC2 and later APE(X)C machines at Birkbeck, and the assembler to go with it. Co-wrote some of the earliest books on how to program and design these machines, and did early work applying neural network ideas to character recognition in the late 1950s.', note: 'Everything between machine code and a compiler starts here.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/008-kathleen-booth-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/008-kathleen-booth-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/008-kathleen-booth/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/008-kathleen-booth/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Kathleen Booth', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Booth' }, { label: 'Coding for A.R.C. (1950)', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language#History' }, @@ -284,8 +284,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Wrote LAP6, the operating system for the LINC, one of the first interactive personal computers. In 1965 she took a LINC home and used it there, which makes her plausibly the first person to have a computer in their house. LAP6 supported real-time text editing on a machine with two kilowords of memory.', note: 'Had a computer at home a decade before anyone was selling one.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/009-mary-allen-wilkes-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/009-mary-allen-wilkes-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/009-mary-allen-wilkes/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/009-mary-allen-wilkes/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Mary Allen Wilkes', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Allen_Wilkes' }, { label: 'LINC', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINC' }, @@ -310,8 +310,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'At Bell Labs she designed a computerised switching system that monitored incoming call rates and prioritised work to stop exchanges collapsing under peak load, holding one of the first software patents for it. She reportedly sketched the design while in hospital after giving birth, and became the first woman supervisor of a technical department there.', note: 'Solved overload in telephony before anyone called it backpressure.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/010-erna-schneider-hoover-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/010-erna-schneider-hoover-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/010-erna-schneider-hoover/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/010-erna-schneider-hoover/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Erna Schneider Hoover', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna_Schneider_Hoover' }, { label: 'National Inventors Hall of Fame', url: 'https://www.invent.org/inductees/erna-schneider-hoover' }, @@ -336,8 +336,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Ran the Network Information Center at SRI, which was the ARPANET’s directory, help desk and registry, publishing the Resource Handbook and maintaining the HOSTS.TXT file that every machine on the network relied on. Her group proposed the domain naming scheme that gave us .com, .edu, .gov, .mil, .net and .org.', note: 'Ran the internet’s address book by hand, and named the neighbourhoods.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/011-elizabeth-feinler-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/011-elizabeth-feinler-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/011-elizabeth-feinler/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/011-elizabeth-feinler/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Elizabeth Feinler', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_J._Feinler' }, { label: 'Internet Hall of Fame profile', url: 'https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/elizabeth-feinler/' }, @@ -362,8 +362,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Founded Freelance Programmers with six pounds, staffing it almost entirely with women programming from home around their children, decades before remote work had a name. Signed her business letters Steve because Stephanie was not getting replies. The company wrote the Concorde black box flight recorder software and she later gave much of her wealth away.', note: 'Built the case for remote work in 1962 and shipped Concorde’s black box.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/012-stephanie-shirley-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/012-stephanie-shirley-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/012-stephanie-shirley/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/012-stephanie-shirley/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Steve Shirley', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Shirley' }, { label: 'Her own account', url: 'https://www.steveshirley.com/' }, @@ -388,8 +388,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'One of the very few women doing cryptanalytic rather than clerical work at Bletchley Park, in the Hut 8 team attacking naval Enigma, and a practitioner of Banburismus. She was initially classified as a linguist because the pay grades had no category for a woman cryptanalyst. The work stayed secret for decades, so the record of it is thinner than it should be.', note: 'The openness score is low because the Official Secrets Act made it so.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/013-joan-clarke-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/013-joan-clarke-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/013-joan-clarke/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/013-joan-clarke/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Joan Clarke', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Clarke' }, { label: 'Bletchley Park', url: 'https://bletchleypark.org.uk/' }, @@ -414,8 +414,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Broke the ciphers of rum-runners during Prohibition and testified about it in court, then during the war ran the unit that broke the Enigma traffic of a Nazi spy ring in South America. The FBI publicly claimed those results. Her files stayed classified until 2008, which is why her husband William is the famous Friedman.', note: 'Her work was credited to J. Edgar Hoover for sixty years.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/014-elizebeth-smith-friedman-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/014-elizebeth-smith-friedman-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/014-elizebeth-smith-friedman/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/014-elizebeth-smith-friedman/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Elizebeth Smith Friedman', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizebeth_Smith_Friedman' }, { label: 'NSA Hall of Honor', url: 'https://www.nsa.gov/History/Cryptologic-Hall-of-Honor/Article/1621807/elizebeth-smith-friedman/' }, @@ -440,8 +440,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'With composer George Antheil, patented a frequency-hopping scheme in 1942 to stop radio-guided torpedoes being jammed, synchronised by a mechanism borrowed from player pianos. The Navy shelved it. The underlying idea is an ancestor of the spread-spectrum techniques used in later secure and wireless communication, and the patent was allowed to lapse unpaid.', note: 'Filed it, gave it to the Navy for free, and got nothing for decades.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/015-hedy-lamarr-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/015-hedy-lamarr-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/015-hedy-lamarr/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/015-hedy-lamarr/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Hedy Lamarr', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr' }, { label: 'US Patent 2,292,387', url: 'https://patents.google.com/patent/US2292387A/en' }, @@ -466,8 +466,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Spent a career at IBM building the theory and practice of compiler optimisation: control flow analysis, data flow analysis, the interprocedural work that every modern compiler still does. Her 1966 paper on program optimisation is foundational. In 2006 she became the first woman to receive the Turing Award, thirty-nine years after the award began.', note: 'Every fast binary you have ever run is downstream of her analyses.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/016-frances-allen-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/016-frances-allen-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/016-frances-allen/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/016-frances-allen/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Frances Allen', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Allen' }, { label: 'ACM A.M. Turing Award 2006', url: 'https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/allen_1012327.cfm' }, @@ -492,8 +492,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Designed CLU, which introduced abstract data types, iterators and a serious treatment of exceptions, and which shows up in the ancestry of most modern languages. The Liskov substitution principle is the L in SOLID. Also did foundational work on Byzantine fault tolerance with Miguel Castro. Turing Award, 2008.', note: 'You use her ideas whether or not you have heard the name.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/017-barbara-liskov-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/017-barbara-liskov-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/017-barbara-liskov/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/017-barbara-liskov/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Barbara Liskov', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov' }, { label: 'ACM A.M. Turing Award 2008', url: 'https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/liskov_1108679.cfm' }, @@ -518,8 +518,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'With Silvio Micali and Charles Rackoff, introduced zero-knowledge interactive proofs, and with Micali the definition of semantic security that made modern encryption provable rather than merely unbroken. Two-time Godel Prize winner and Turing Award, 2012. Every zk-rollup and privacy protocol shipping today is standing on that 1985 paper.', note: 'Formalised the idea of proving a thing without revealing it.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/018-shafi-goldwasser-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/018-shafi-goldwasser-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/018-shafi-goldwasser/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/018-shafi-goldwasser/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Shafi Goldwasser', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafi_Goldwasser' }, { label: 'ACM A.M. Turing Award 2012', url: 'https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/goldwasser_8627889.cfm' }, @@ -544,8 +544,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Her 1972 paper introduced inverse document frequency: rare terms tell you more than common ones. TF-IDF underpinned search engines for thirty years and is still the baseline every ranking system is measured against. She argued throughout her career that computing was too important to be left to men, and said so in those words.', note: 'One weighting function, and search stopped being useless.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/019-karen-sparck-jones-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/019-karen-sparck-jones-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/019-karen-sparck-jones/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/019-karen-sparck-jones/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Karen Spärck Jones', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Sp%C3%A4rck_Jones' }, { label: 'A statistical interpretation of term specificity (1972)', url: 'https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/eb026526/full/html' }, @@ -570,8 +570,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Co-invented differential privacy, which gave a mathematical definition to the amount of information a data release leaks about any one person, replacing a field of ad-hoc anonymisation that kept being broken. It is now in the US Census, Apple’s telemetry and Google’s. She also co-authored early work on proof-of-work and on algorithmic fairness.', note: 'Turned privacy from a promise into a quantity you can bound.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/020-cynthia-dwork-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/020-cynthia-dwork-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/020-cynthia-dwork/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/020-cynthia-dwork/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Cynthia Dwork', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Dwork' }, { label: 'Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity (2006)', url: 'https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11681878_14' }, @@ -596,8 +596,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'An OS researcher who built a fault-tolerant Unix and a memory architecture analysis tool, and who in 1987 started Systers, the first email network for women in computing. Co-founded the Grace Hopper Celebration and the Institute for Women and Technology. The conference now draws tens of thousands a year.', note: 'Built the professional network that a generation of the others came through.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/021-anita-borg-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/021-anita-borg-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/021-anita-borg/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/021-anita-borg/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Anita Borg', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg' }, { label: 'AnitaB.org', url: 'https://anitab.org/' }, @@ -622,8 +622,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Invented dynamic instruction scheduling at IBM in the 1960s, was fired when she transitioned, and rebuilt her career from scratch. At Xerox PARC she and Carver Mead created the VLSI design methodology and the textbook that let universities teach chip design, then set up MOSIS so students could actually fabricate. Modern semiconductors are organised the way she said they should be.', note: 'Did it twice, the second time after the industry threw her away.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/022-lynn-conway-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/022-lynn-conway-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/022-lynn-conway/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/022-lynn-conway/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Lynn Conway', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway' }, { label: 'Introduction to VLSI Systems', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_VLSI_Systems' }, @@ -648,8 +648,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Wrote BBC BASIC, then designed the original ARM instruction set with Steve Furber, a RISC architecture so efficient the first silicon ran on leakage current when its power was accidentally disconnected. There are now more ARM cores in the world than any other processor architecture, by a wide margin. Later designed the FirePath processor at Broadcom.', note: 'The chip in your pocket runs her instruction set. So does the other one.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/023-sophie-wilson-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/023-sophie-wilson-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/023-sophie-wilson/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/023-sophie-wilson/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Sophie Wilson', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson' }, { label: 'ARM architecture', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family' }, @@ -674,8 +674,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'At Xerox PARC she developed Smalltalk-80 with Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls and wrote the books that let anyone else learn it. She objected to demonstrating it to Steve Jobs and was overruled by management; the Macintosh interface followed. Smalltalk is where object-oriented programming and the modern IDE both actually come from.', note: 'Told PARC not to show Jobs the demo. She was right.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/024-adele-goldberg-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/024-adele-goldberg-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/024-adele-goldberg/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/024-adele-goldberg/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Adele Goldberg', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldberg_(computer_scientist)' }, { label: 'Smalltalk', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk' }, @@ -700,8 +700,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Designed the original Macintosh icons, fonts and cursors on graph paper, inventing a visual grammar for direct manipulation that nobody had needed before. The Command key symbol, the trash can, the watch cursor and the Happy Mac are hers. Later did the same work for NeXT, Microsoft and IBM. Her bitmaps are in MoMA.', note: 'Made the computer look friendly, in a 32 by 32 grid.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/025-susan-kare-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/025-susan-kare-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/025-susan-kare/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/025-susan-kare/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Susan Kare', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare' }, { label: 'Her portfolio', url: 'https://kare.com/' }, @@ -726,8 +726,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Founded Adafruit from an MIT dorm room and built it into a substantial manufacturer that publishes its schematics, board files and firmware openly, alongside thousands of free tutorials. Leads CircuitPython, which put a REPL on microcontrollers and made embedded programming approachable. Proved open hardware can be a real company rather than a gesture.', note: 'The openness score is 99 because the schematics ship with the product.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/026-limor-fried-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/026-limor-fried-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/026-limor-fried/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/026-limor-fried/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Limor Fried', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limor_Fried' }, { label: 'CircuitPython', url: 'https://circuitpython.org/' }, @@ -752,8 +752,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Wrote the Mozilla Public License and led the Mozilla project through the open-sourcing of Netscape, the years when it looked dead, and the rise of Firefox, which broke Internet Explorer’s monopoly and dragged web standards forward. Chaired the Mozilla Foundation for two decades of arguing that the browser should answer to users.', note: 'The reason there is still a browser engine not owned by an ad company.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/027-mitchell-baker-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/027-mitchell-baker-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/027-mitchell-baker/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/027-mitchell-baker/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Mitchell Baker', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker' }, { label: 'Mozilla Public License', url: 'https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/' }, @@ -778,8 +778,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Worked on Pugs, the first usable Perl 6 implementation, and on Haskell and Perl tooling, then became a central figure in g0v, the Taiwanese civic hacking community that forks government websites into working versions. As Taiwan’s digital minister she published transcripts of essentially every meeting she took, and used participatory tooling like vTaiwan on real policy.', note: 'Published the minutes of her own meetings. All of them.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/028-audrey-tang-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/028-audrey-tang-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/028-audrey-tang/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/028-audrey-tang/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Audrey Tang', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang' }, { label: 'g0v', url: 'https://g0v.tw/' }, @@ -804,8 +804,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, which provides the legal and financial home for a long list of open source projects and does the unglamorous work of GPL enforcement. A lawyer with a heart condition, she has made the argument for auditable code concrete by asking to see the source of the defibrillator implanted in her chest, and being refused.', note: 'The strongest argument for source access anyone has: her own heart.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/029-karen-sandler-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/029-karen-sandler-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/029-karen-sandler/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/029-karen-sandler/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Karen Sandler', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Sandler' }, { label: 'Software Freedom Conservancy', url: 'https://sfconservancy.org/' }, @@ -830,8 +830,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Ran open source at Sun during the OpenSolaris and OpenOffice years, then at Intel, PayPal and Wikimedia, and chaired the Node.js Foundation through the io.js reconciliation. Served on the OSI board. Much of what a corporate open source program office does was invented by her arguing with lawyers, repeatedly, for twenty years.', note: 'Spent two decades translating between engineers and general counsel.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/030-danese-cooper-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/030-danese-cooper-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/030-danese-cooper/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/030-danese-cooper/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Danese Cooper', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danese_Cooper' }, { label: 'Open Source Initiative', url: 'https://opensource.org/' }, @@ -856,8 +856,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Led the Parrot virtual machine and worked on the Perl 6 design, then served as president of the Perl Foundation, chair of the Open Source Initiative, on the board of the Python Software Foundation, and at Canonical and HP on OpenStack. One of the few people equally credible on a language runtime and on licence text.', note: 'Turns up wherever open source needs both a compiler and a constitution.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/031-allison-randal-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/031-allison-randal-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/031-allison-randal/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/031-allison-randal/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Allison Randal', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Randal' }, { label: 'Her site', url: 'https://www.allisonrandal.com/' }, @@ -882,8 +882,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Worked on Linux filesystems including ext4, ChunkFS and union mounts, and wrote a long-running series on filesystem design for LWN. Co-founded the Ada Initiative, whose example anti-harassment policy was adopted across a large part of the conference circuit and materially changed what open source events tolerate.', note: 'Shipped kernel code, then fixed the conferences that ran on it.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/032-valerie-aurora-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/032-valerie-aurora-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/032-valerie-aurora/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/032-valerie-aurora/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Valerie Aurora', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Aurora' }, { label: 'Her LWN filesystem writing', url: 'https://lwn.net/Articles/190222/' }, @@ -908,8 +908,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Wrote the Contributor Covenant in 2014; it has since been adopted by well over a hundred thousand projects including Linux, Rails and Kubernetes, and it is the reason most repositories have a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md at all. Also created the Hippocratic License and the Organization for Ethical Source, and took a great deal of abuse for both.', note: 'That file in the root of your repo is hers.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/033-coraline-ada-ehmke-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/033-coraline-ada-ehmke-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/033-coraline-ada-ehmke/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/033-coraline-ada-ehmke/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Coraline Ada Ehmke', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coraline_Ada_Ehmke' }, { label: 'Contributor Covenant', url: 'https://www.contributor-covenant.org/' }, @@ -934,8 +934,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Led the successful grant-funded work to replace pip’s dependency resolver, a change every Python user benefits from and almost nobody noticed. Has worked on Wikimedia engineering community, Zulip and MediaWiki, and writes seriously about the unglamorous parts of open source: release management, funding, and how maintainers burn out.', note: 'Fixed pip’s resolver. Consider what your builds were like before.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/034-sumana-harihareswara-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/034-sumana-harihareswara-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/034-sumana-harihareswara/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/034-sumana-harihareswara/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Sumana Harihareswara', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumana_Harihareswara' }, { label: 'The pip resolver rollout', url: 'https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2020/11/pip-20-3-new-resolver.html' }, @@ -960,8 +960,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Showed that 87 percent of Americans could be uniquely identified from ZIP code, birth date and sex, then demonstrated it by re-identifying the Massachusetts governor’s medical records in a public dataset and mailing them to him. Proposed k-anonymity in response. Later served as chief technologist at the FTC and published work on discrimination in online ad delivery.', note: 'Mailed the governor his own supposedly anonymous health records.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/035-latanya-sweeney-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/035-latanya-sweeney-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/035-latanya-sweeney/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/035-latanya-sweeney/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Latanya Sweeney', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latanya_Sweeney' }, { label: 'k-Anonymity (2002)', url: 'https://dataprivacylab.org/dataprivacy/projects/kanonymity/kanonymity.pdf' }, @@ -986,8 +986,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'CPython contributor, Python Software Foundation director and Twisted maintainer who did a large amount of the outreach work that widened who shows up to Python: Boston Python’s beginner workshops moved the local user group to roughly a third women, which nobody had managed before. Co-wrote a book on Twisted and taught a great deal for free.', note: 'Ran the workshops that changed who was in the room.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/036-jessica-mckellar-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/036-jessica-mckellar-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/036-jessica-mckellar/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/036-jessica-mckellar/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Jessica McKellar', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_McKellar' }, { label: 'Python Software Foundation', url: 'https://www.python.org/psf/' }, @@ -1012,8 +1012,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Project Jupyter steering council member and CPython core developer who has done a great deal of the work on JupyterHub and Binder, the pieces that turn a notebook from a file on someone’s laptop into shared, reproducible infrastructure. Served as a Python Steering Council member and does the release and mentoring work that keeps both projects running.', note: 'Notebooks are how science ships now, and she maintains them.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/037-carol-willing-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/037-carol-willing-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/037-carol-willing/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/037-carol-willing/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Project Jupyter', url: 'https://jupyter.org/about' }, { label: 'Python Steering Council', url: 'https://github.com/python/steering-council' }, @@ -1038,8 +1038,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Writes hand-drawn zines and a long-running blog that explain strace, tcpdump, DNS, containers, git internals and networking better than the manuals do, mostly by working through her own confusion in public. Wrote a Ruby profiler and various debugging tools. An enormous number of engineers learned how their machine works from her drawings.', note: 'Made "I do not understand this yet" a legitimate way to write documentation.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/038-julia-evans-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/038-julia-evans-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/038-julia-evans/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/038-julia-evans/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Julia Evans’ blog', url: 'https://jvns.ca/' }, { label: 'Wizard Zines', url: 'https://wizardzines.com/' }, @@ -1064,8 +1064,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'CSS Working Group invited expert and the person who did more than anyone to get CSS Grid understood and adopted, through Grid by Example, years of writing and a great deal of patient explanation. Later editor in chief of Smashing Magazine and now on the Chrome developer relations team writing the platform documentation.', note: 'A spec nobody understands is a spec nobody ships. She fixed that.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/039-rachel-andrew-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/039-rachel-andrew-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/039-rachel-andrew/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/039-rachel-andrew/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Rachel Andrew', url: 'https://rachelandrew.co.uk/' }, { label: 'Grid by Example', url: 'https://gridbyexample.com/' }, @@ -1090,8 +1090,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Coined intrinsic web design for the layout approach Grid and Flexbox actually enable, and spent years demonstrating it in public so designers would stop rebuilding 2010 in a modern browser. Worked on Firefox developer tools including the Grid inspector, and is now an Apple evangelist and CSS Working Group member shipping the features in Safari.', note: 'Argued the web should stop imitating print, then shipped the tools.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/040-jen-simmons-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/040-jen-simmons-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/040-jen-simmons/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/040-jen-simmons/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Jen Simmons', url: 'https://jensimmons.com/' }, { label: 'CSS Working Group', url: 'https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members' }, @@ -1116,8 +1116,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Wrote Prism, the syntax highlighter running on a very large share of technical sites, and a run of small widely-used libraries. CSS Working Group invited expert who has driven several specs including colour functions, wrote CSS Secrets, and researches end-user programming at MIT. Nearly everything she makes is MIT licensed and on GitHub.', note: 'The code highlighting on the docs you read this morning is probably hers.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/041-lea-verou-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/041-lea-verou-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/041-lea-verou/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/041-lea-verou/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Lea Verou', url: 'https://lea.verou.me/' }, { label: 'Prism', url: 'https://github.com/PrismJS/prism' }, @@ -1142,8 +1142,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Vue core team member who wrote much of the animation documentation and a well-regarded book on SVG animation, then led developer experience at Netlify, Google and Azure. Her writing on animation performance and on running engineering teams is widely read, and she has published a large amount of demo code for free.', note: 'Made web animation a craft with technique rather than a pile of tricks.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/042-sarah-drasner-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/042-sarah-drasner-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/042-sarah-drasner/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/042-sarah-drasner/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Sarah Drasner', url: 'https://sarah.dev/' }, { label: 'Vue.js team', url: 'https://vuejs.org/about/team' }, @@ -1168,8 +1168,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'A blind engineer who has served on the W3C Board of Directors, co-chaired the Web Applications Working Group and worked on the accessibility of HTML, ARIA and the Web Audio API from inside the specs rather than filing bugs from outside. Runs TetraLogical and has spent years teaching developers what their markup actually sounds like.', note: 'Fixed accessibility where it is cheapest to fix: in the spec.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/043-leonie-watson-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/043-leonie-watson-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/043-leonie-watson/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/043-leonie-watson/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Léonie Watson', url: 'https://tink.uk/about-me/' }, { label: 'W3C', url: 'https://www.w3.org/' }, @@ -1194,8 +1194,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Co-founded Honeycomb and made the case that dashboards of pre-aggregated metrics cannot answer questions you did not think to ask, which reframed monitoring into observability and high-cardinality events. Co-wrote Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering, and has been relentlessly, usefully rude about the idea that you can avoid testing in production.', note: 'You do test in production. She just wants you to admit it and instrument it.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/044-charity-majors-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/044-charity-majors-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/044-charity-majors/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/044-charity-majors/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Charity Majors', url: 'https://charity.wtf/' }, { label: 'Observability Engineering', url: 'https://www.honeycomb.io/observability-engineering-oreilly-book-2022' }, @@ -1220,8 +1220,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Was a Google SRE for over a decade, then principal developer advocate at Honeycomb, pushing OpenTelemetry and publishing a great deal on SLOs and reliability practice that teams actually adopt. Also one of the more visible organisers in the tech worker movement, which cost her something and which she has been candid about.', note: 'Publishes the reliability practice most companies keep as tribal knowledge.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/045-liz-fong-jones-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/045-liz-fong-jones-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/045-liz-fong-jones/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/045-liz-fong-jones/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Liz Fong-Jones', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Fong-Jones' }, { label: 'Her writing', url: 'https://www.honeycomb.io/authors/liz-fong-jones' }, @@ -1246,8 +1246,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'A core Docker maintainer during the years containers took over, known for running absolutely everything in one including desktop applications, and for the seccomp and AppArmor work on container isolation. Later worked on Kubernetes and GitHub, then co-founded Oxide Computer to build servers with an open firmware stack, which is a much harder version of the same argument.', note: 'Containerised her own desktop to prove a point, then went after firmware.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/046-jessie-frazelle-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/046-jessie-frazelle-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/046-jessie-frazelle/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/046-jessie-frazelle/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Jessie Frazelle', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Frazelle' }, { label: 'Oxide Computer', url: 'https://oxide.computer/' }, @@ -1272,8 +1272,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Apache ZooKeeper committer and project chair, and CTO of Rent the Runway, then head of platform engineering at Two Sigma. Wrote The Manager’s Path, which is the book most engineers are handed when they first lead a team, and which is unusually honest about the parts of the job that are not fun.', note: 'Shipped the coordination service, then documented the harder job.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/047-camille-fournier-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/047-camille-fournier-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/047-camille-fournier/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/047-camille-fournier/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Camille Fournier', url: 'https://www.elidedbranches.com/' }, { label: 'Apache ZooKeeper', url: 'https://zookeeper.apache.org/' }, @@ -1298,8 +1298,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Co-authored Gender Shades with Joy Buolamwini, measuring commercial face recognition error rates that reached 34 percent for darker-skinned women against near zero for lighter-skinned men, which forced public changes from IBM and Microsoft. Co-led Google’s ethical AI team until her exit over the Stochastic Parrots paper, then founded DAIR to do the research outside a company.', note: 'The exit made the news. The measurements are why the paper mattered.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/048-timnit-gebru-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/048-timnit-gebru-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/048-timnit-gebru/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/048-timnit-gebru/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Timnit Gebru', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timnit_Gebru' }, { label: 'Stochastic Parrots (2021)', url: 'https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922' }, @@ -1325,8 +1325,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Found as an MIT student that face detection would not see her face until she put on a white mask, and turned that into Gender Shades, a systematic audit of commercial classifiers by skin tone and gender. Founded the Algorithmic Justice League. The work fed directly into moratoria on police use of face recognition in several US cities.', note: 'Started with a white mask in a lab and ended in city legislation.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/049-joy-buolamwini-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/049-joy-buolamwini-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/049-joy-buolamwini/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Joy Buolamwini', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Buolamwini' }, { label: 'Gender Shades', url: 'http://gendershades.org/' }, @@ -1351,8 +1351,8 @@ export const builders: Builder[] = [ 'Founded and co-led Google’s ethical AI team, and first-authored Model Cards for Model Reporting, which proposed that a released model should ship with a document stating its intended use, its evaluation data and where it performs worse. Hugging Face made model cards a default. She was fired alongside Gebru and is now chief ethics scientist at Hugging Face.', note: 'Every model card on the Hub traces back to one 2019 paper.', status: 'locked', - front: '/cards/women/050-margaret-mitchell-front.png', - back: '/cards/women/050-margaret-mitchell-back.png', + front: "/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/front.svg", + back: "/releases/v2/women/050-margaret-mitchell/back.svg", sources: [ { label: 'Margaret Mitchell', url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mitchell_(scientist)' }, { label: 'Model Cards for Model Reporting (2019)', url: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03993' },