Justin Frankel is my hero. I learned so much programming from his releases. I remember having a fully printed and annotated copy of the Waste source code. He i

Justin Frankel is my hero. I learned so much programming from his releases. I remember having a fully printed and annotated copy of the Waste source code. He is one of those extremely rare programmers of the "too smart to need unit tests" type and he can come up with paradigm shifting code by hacking on something in a weekend. All his utilities were fully dependency free, straight up C code that compiled something epic into a 50kb executable. Back in the day I had a job which paid a substantial bonus for every kilobyte that I managed to shave off the executable binary size ( 14.4 baud modem days ) and his code as well as all the code from the 4k and 64k demo scene that was available was my only reference material. I lost track of what he is up to these days, but I hope he found much happiness after the apparently tough AOL time.