There are a few people in the

programming world that I consider

legendary. John Carmarmac is one of

them. And when he tweets this, he is

almost certainly a better overall

programmer than I am. I have to know

what this guy has done. Now, this

legendary programmer does not have a

Twitter. He does not have an Instagram.

In fact, he just ships software for the

last 37 years in France. And when you

navigate to his website, you know for a

fact you're about to run into one of the

most legendary programmers of all time.

As the CEO and face of this

multi-billion dollar startup, the

startup, I've decided the only way to

honor somebody with a 37year track

record of amazing software is to award

them programmer of the month here at the

startup. And so today, we honor Fabric

Bellard, legendary programmer, and the

things he has made are so incredible,

and the list goes on for so long. Now,

before we begin, I'd like to say thank

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first three months. Fabric Bard was born

in 1972 in Grenobyl, France, and at the

ripe age of 17, he created his first

very popular piece of open-source

technology, LZEexe. Now, you may not be

familiar with what LZEXE is, but LZexE

was the first widen executable file

compression for PCs under MS DOS. It

allowed MSDOS executables, exes orcom

files to be compressed and then launched

without having to decompress them

explicitly. In other words, there's this

small stub executable that knew how to

decompress the actual program and then

the actual program was compressed inside

of the memory and it would read it line

by line and then at the end it was able

to decompress this and turn this into an

executable program and execute it. Now,

this looks like an AMERICAN FLAG. SO,

USA IS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. HE

didn't mean for this to actually become

popular. He said, "Although I wrote

LZEXE for my own use, I gave it to some

friends and it was then put on some

BBS's. LZexE became then very famous.

Although I did not do anything to

promote it. This success was quite

unexpected for me." You're probably

wondering why would anybody write this?

Well, back in the late 80s, early 90s,

memory was actually extremely expensive.

Kind of reminder of today and how how

Sam Jippy Almond keeps using up all of

my memory, making everything super

expensive. So back then they had to be

creative. They had to create these ways

to be able to reduce disk space. Now

Freeze didn't do anything major for the

next about 10 years until he unveiled

the Bellard's formula which is used to

calculate the nth digit of pi in B 16.

It was about 43% faster than the fastest

known algorithm at the time. And here is

the algorithm. This beautiful algorithm

turns out to be one of the fastest known

ways for calculating pi. Now his

obsession with pi did not actually stop

back in 1997. And it turns out on

December 31st, 2009, he claimed the

world record for calculations of pi,

having calculated it to nearly 2.7

trillion places in 90 days. Now, you're

probably thinking, okay, yeah, is that

really that impressive? Well, let me

tell you why. While the improvement may

seem small, it is an outstanding

achievement because only a single

desktop PC costing less than $3,000 was

used instead of multi-million dollar

supercomputers as in previous records.

In other words, he shattered it from

consumer grade hardware as opposed to

industrial weapons grade hardware. About

3 years later is when Fabric decided he

was going to change the world. In 2000,

he started a little known project called

FFmpeg under the pseudonym Gerrard Land

2. And yes, it is actually confirmed by

a git commit in 2014 that Gerard Land 2

is in fact Fbreze Bellard which was

widely known and it was even written

about on FFmpeg's history prologue

saying this. As you know, FFmpeg was

started by Fris Bellard under the

pseudonym Gerard Lantu exactly 22 years

ago. Why a pseudonym? Probably because

back in the day, it was too easy to be

sued by patent holders. But I may be

wrong. Nobody actually knows why he

started it under the pseudonym. Maybe he

was just tired of all the success of LZ

Ham and everything. But nonetheless,

back in the day, and a large reason why

a huge amount of video was held back for

decades is because of patents. And

FFmpeg was the thing that just

absolutely dominated that industry,

making everybody's life actually better

and is still used by pretty much every

single billiondoll corporation or now

trillion dollar corporation these days.

Now the funny thing about Fabric is

besides for writing some of the most

consequential open source software in

2000, he also decided to win the

international offuscation CC code

challenge in 2000 as well. And this is

for calculating out the largest known

prime to man and printing it which of

course is 2 to the 6,972,593

minus1. Now at this point you would

probably hang up the keyboard, right?

You'd be like okay I have done enough

for the world. I in fact do not need to

create anything else. Well, that's not

what Fabric did. Three short years

later, he created Quick Emulator, which

is still maintained and used all over

the place, used as the backbone of so

many services, including emulating

GitHub actions, which I, by the way, I

don't want him associated with GitHub

actions. The trashiness of GitHub

actions and its lack of, you know,

availability has nothing to do with QMU,

just in case, you know, JUST IN CASE

YOU'RE WONDERING. again starts an open

source project 20 years later there's an

active community still maintaining it

and it is being used by thousands upon

tens of thousands if not millions of

people and the effect of its software is

being enjoyed potentially into the

billions of people later on Fabrius went

to help co-found which is a 4G 5G lab

testing and software stack provider and

which provides some telecom some of the

best software known to man for running a

lot of the cellular networks where he

serves as CTO. But that never stopped

him. If you look at this, all these

projects you see right here are during

his tenure as CTO. Not only is he

running one of the world's most advanced

telecom software communications company,

he is also creating some of the most

incredible software to this day,

including the ability for me to be able

to run Windows 2000 in the browser. Yes,

this is actually Windows 2000 actually

emulated in JavaScript. It is fully

running. I can even have Firefox. Now I

can minimize this. I can actually launch

connect to the internet. Remember back

in the day in, you know, in the 2000's

era, you had to connect to the internet.

Okay, it wasn't always on. You think you

just you you can just walk in to a

computer and just use the internet,

idiot. By the way, launching Firefox

took like 5 minutes to it to actually

launch. Very very funny. This kind of

reminds me of Gary Burnernhard's

destroyal software talk called the birth

and death of JavaScript where he

emulated inside of Firefox inside

of Chrome. It's literally like this

hilarious software stack except for it's

the real deal all in JavaScript. But he

didn't just stop there. You can peruse

this and find so many gems and so many

amazing things that he has built.

Obviously, one of the big ones was

Quick.js, which is a small embeddible

JavaScript engine in which he still

maintains and still actually makes

faster. Again, 42% faster just in the

last month. But he decided that that

wasn't small enough. He also made

microquickjs which can do this. I I kid

you not. It compiles and runs JavaScript

programs using as little as 10 kilobyt

of RAM. You can't even spell ReactJS

with less than 10 kilobyt of RAM. And

this guy has managed to make something

that can run in 10 kilobyt of RAM. and

his JavaScript. He is absolutely

legendary from being able to write and

create new audio in codes, writing

ffmpeg, creating virtualizers, creating

an entire ability to launch several

different operating systems directly in

the browser to writing JavaScript

engines to also like commanding and

running telecom software. This guy has

to be the ultimate specialist and

generalist at the same time. This might

just be one of the smartest walking

programmers of all time and I completely

understand why. John Carmarmac said, "I

admire Fris Bellard. He is almost

certainly a better overall programmer

than I." So, the first ever programmer

of the month award goes out to you,

Fabris. Thanks for making the world a

better place. By the way, do you like

the uh the name programmer of the month?

I thought like what is the most

corporate way you could like take

someone's life who's accomplished so

many great things and boil it down to

just like the dumbest possible word?

Imagine just spending 37 years actually

changing the world and actually making

things better, especially with FFmpeg,

only for the corporation to be like,

"Hey, you're programmer of the month.

Thanks for all the hard work." What do

you get? Probably a plaque and a

picture. So, hey, if you enjoy this

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