I have never contributed much to open source, but my high water mark was writing reportdhcp, the first available tool to report the status of DHCP pools. I wrot

I have never contributed much to open source, but my high water mark was writing reportdhcp, the first available tool to report the status of DHCP pools. I wrote it because I needed it and none existed that I could find anywhere. It got packed into a few distros. After only a few years it was replaced by better tools (and in fact, I was even proud of the fact that the author of one specifically called out that it was better than reportdhcp). Got written up in Linux Magazine and one other publication at the time. I'm no superstar like many of you luminaries, and in fact I wrote it with the Llama Book sitting in my lap, but it was great to contribute the open source ecosystem to which I owe a large chunk of my career.