One reason I prefer Reddit to Digg is because it seems people know each other better in the comment sections, especially in the section I hang out the most in, the programming section. More than that, some known developers hang there and shoot the breeze with the rest of us. Here’s an incomplete list of those developers:
- jacobian: Jacob Kaplan-Moss, co-lead developer of Django, a Python web framework
- mr_chromatic: chromatic, a well-known Perl hacker and author, currently involved in the Parrot project
- slava_pestov: Slava Pestov, the initial developer of jEdit and current lead developer of the Factor language
- dons: Don Stewart, one of the developer of xmonad, a tiling window manager written in Haskell
- paulgraham: Paul Graham, the author of two Common Lisp book, the founder of ViaWeb and partner at Y Combinator. Currently writing a programming language, Arc
- jrockway: Jonathan Rockway, lead developer of Catalyst, a Perl web framework
- avibryant: Avi Bryant, lead developer of Seaside, a Smalltalk web framework and of DabbleDB, an online spreadsheet-database application
- augustss: Lennart Augustsson, a well-known Haskell hacker, winner of 3 IOCCC and of the 1999 ICFP Judge’s Prize for which he was declared an extremely cool hacker
- xkcd: Randall Munroe, not known for a program he wrote, rather for the very popular XKCD comic, a favorite among redditors
What other celebrities hang on reddit?
Update:
Contributed by others:
- effbot: Frederik Lundh, Python hacker responsible for the Python Imaging Library and ElementTree.
- zzzeek: Mike Bayer, creator of the Python ORM SQLAlchemy and of the Mako templating language.
- mjd: Mark Jason Dominus, well-known Perl hacker responsible for many CPAN modules and author or the book Higher-Order Perl
- spolsky: Joel Spolsky, a well-known author of programming litterature and blogger, he worked on Microsoft Excel in the early nineties.
effbot: Fredrik Lundh, developer of the superb Python Imaging Library (PIL) and ElementTree XML libraries.
Paul Graham goes by ‘pg’ on Hacker News and by ‘paulgraham’ on reddit.
Does Slava Pestov, author of Factor, count?
Rudolf: Thanks for the correction.
John: He’s in there, third from the top.
zzzeek (creator of SQLAlchemy and Mako)
simonw: Simon Willison, the other Django Bigboss
Was my comment posted? I’m not sure, if not:
zzzeek: Mike Bayer (creator of SQLAlchemy and Mako)
qwe1234 – Master C++ troll.
Who qualifies as a celebrity by the way? I’m sure a lot of programming.reddit.com users are involved in open source projects.
Here’s another one (IMO) from the Python world:
cfbolz: Carl Friedrich Bolz (developer of Pypy)
You misspelled Augustsson. He also wrote Lazy ML and Cayenne.
Another celeb is neelk (Neelakantan Krishnaswami) of CMU.
Don’t forget
gigamonkey: Peter Seibel, author of “Practical Common Lisp”
And what about me?
I was going to ask the same, but then I noticed that I’m already mentioned. Oh well.
none of these people should be referred as a “celebrity” by any stretch of the imagination and they themselves would probably agree
jcy
Boredzo does Adium.
mjd = Mark Jason Dominus, author of several well known and widely used Perl modules, including Text::Template, Memoize, and Tie::File.
spolsky = Joel Spolsky, founder of Fog Creek Software and author of a popular programming blog (even has his own subreddit: http://joel.reddit.com/ )
Rudy Giuliani
Interesting. I know celebs of this caliber do also hang out on Digg, although they may not be as active in the comments. I’d love to see a similar list for Digg.
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Dugg
Pica & Kulisz?
What about jeresig – jQuery creator and Mozilla hacker?
These are all nerds who enjoy the higher art of nerdery. Where are the political celebrities, oh my brother?
FWIW, I’m one of many “core developers” on Catalyst, not the “lead developer”. Most of the code in Catalyst comes from the users; I just blog about it a lot :)
Might want to change title to “Celebs of programming.reddit.com” to avoid the backlash from the political/science people :)
I have more reddit Karma than joel spolsky!
He should submit his own articles. :)
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I am also interested in using the reddit as it is more informative, more exciting and more fun to use. Also, the line up of developers are pretty impressive as they are those that belongs to the top caliber of their fields.