LFS helped me a lot. It taught me how to compile packages manually, and how GNU/Linux components fit together.

Armed with that knowledge, I could do things others could not do:

- Make applications that bundle/automatically download their dependencies, compile them with custom flags (static linking)

- Diagnose build errors buried in deep dependencies when using vcpkg

- Compile programs for esotheric systems: e.g: Intel MacOS X 10.5, an obsolete system noone else on earth is using except the company I worked at

- Create application targetting obsolete systems but using the latest version of its dependencies

- Compile recent programs on esotheric systems, by bootstraping a newer gcc on the newer system, patching as necessary

- Create my own stripped down distro, tuned to my specifications

- Use that stripped distro as a docker container

- Run recent linux on obsolete hardware no longer supported by mainstream distros

- Reformat a cloud dedicated server without physical access by first bootstraping a minimal distro on a ramdisk, unmounting the main drive, partitioning that drive, and installing the new distro on that drive. Reboot and pray.

- Build a cross-compiler for targetting a freestanding environment

- Build latest KDE/XFCE for debian stable. No more "but debian ships with outdated software!!11"

- Build applications on a distro they were not designed for (Zimbra OSE on debian)

He abstains from alcohol and drugs, maybe?

  - HTML integration in the file explorer
  - The system tray icons were limited to 16 colors

Technologies: C, C++, Rust, Objective-C, Javascript (Vue, React), CSS, HTML, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Sybase ASE

Over 14 years of professional experience

Contact: fasmwexe {at} gmail.com