The projects that I'm the most proud of are almost invisible.
One of them, rsnapshot is stable software. It is feature-complete, has been thoroughly bug-fixed, and hardly ever requires updating. To some people who look at the repository they might see how few recent updates there have been, or at the list of feature requests (the answer is usually "no, and that's been asked for before", only occasionally just "no, that would break existing users installations") or support requests masquerading as bug reports and think it was terrible abandonware. But it's not. It's just old reliable software. And I'll take old reliable software any day of the week when its job is to look after my backups.
Other people seem to agree with me. I know that amongst other people who value their backups it's used on board hospital ships, by local government, by at least one casino, and by the US Air Force.
The second is Number::Phone, a library for handling phone numbers. It parses them, formats them, can tell you how to dial them, and so on. While the code is all mine (modulo a few small contributions from others) it leans heavily on Google's libphonenumber for data, although it pre-dates libphonenumber by three years as well as being intended more for use by telcos than end-users. It is mostly used in telecoms billing systems, for input data validation on websites, and for some telecoms routing.
The projects that I'm the most proud of are almost invisible.
One of them, rsnapshot is stable software. It is feature-complete, has been thoroughly bug-fixed, and hardly ever requires updating. To some people who look at the repository they might see how few recent updates there have been, or at the list of feature requests (the answer is usually "no, and that's been asked for before", only occasionally just "no, that would break existing users installations") or support requests masquerading as bug reports and think it was terrible abandonware. But it's not. It's just old reliable software. And I'll take old reliable software any day of the week when its job is to look after my backups.
Other people seem to agree with me. I know that amongst other people who value their backups it's used on board hospital ships, by local government, by at least one casino, and by the US Air Force.
The second is Number::Phone, a library for handling phone numbers. It parses them, formats them, can tell you how to dial them, and so on. While the code is all mine (modulo a few small contributions from others) it leans heavily on Google's libphonenumber for data, although it pre-dates libphonenumber by three years as well as being intended more for use by telcos than end-users. It is mostly used in telecoms billing systems, for input data validation on websites, and for some telecoms routing.
Just checked them out 😉Awesome job on these, great to see you have built tools that helps people 🙏❤