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Founded by Dan Jezek, who unfortunately died young: https://www.danjezek.com/index.html https://www.danjezek.com/index.html
by bhouston 7y ago
Founded by Dan Jezek, who unfortunately died young: https://www.danjezek.com/index.html https://www.danjezek.com/index.html
- jacquesm 7y agoSuper nice guy, really a pity.
- javajosh 7y agoYes, it's a sad story. I worked at BrickLink shortly after he died and the company was acquired, and helped port some of his code to Java. It was all very dense ASP (classic, not ASP.net!) and SQL Server stored procedures. It was written perfectly for what it was: the product of one person's passion, one person's mind. He did lots of little simple things, like just delete all data after 30-days. This decision alone saved an incredible amount of complexity (and was charmingly naive). I've always been a minimalist myself, but I'd never seen minimalism taken so far. This was a very active, very data-intensive webapp that served the whole world basically running on two machines. It was a the webapp version of that 'aha' moment you get when you see what someone can do with 1k or 10k of code in code golf or the demoscene. We all pay a very heavy price for collaborating on software!