🪦 Deceased Terry A. Davis / Terrence Andrew Davis - Creator of TempleOS (formerly LoseThos/sparrowOS)

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Happy birthday, Terry, I wish I could have met you, and even more, I wish you would have called me a retarded nigger for not knowing a single thing about computers.
 
Gone too soon. He would have turned 56 today.
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I remember @Null during one stream, in which he struggled to put into words what his "profession" would fall into, if his line of work can be even summarized in a job title, and the closest approximation was "network architect".
The same can be said for Terry. Terry wasn’t “just” a programmer: he was simultaneously a systems architect, an electrical engineer, a language designer, a compiler engineer, a graphics programmer, and an application developer.
Doing all of that alone, in modern times, is nearly unheard of. On top of that, Terry embodied the concept of digital self-reliance: no third-party compilers, no existing kernels, no borrowed drivers. He was working at the same “from scratch” level as the early pioneers in the 1970s, but decades later, when the complexity bar was much, MUCH higher.

Most operating systems today are built by hundreds or thousands of engineers over years... or by dozens of thousands of smelly, unqualified, untalented Indian men.
Terry had more raw, unfiltered talent in his pinky finger than the entire nation of India.

Rest in peace, sweet prince.
 
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I think even despite his schizophrenia, he was communing with God, even if not in the way he thought. There's little doubt in my head that his faith was genuine. I believe that Terry was indeed tormented, but his creativity, his passion for his work, that to me is pure worship. I think people often wonder what he could've been had he not suffered or had been better medicated, and I do too, but even what he accomplished in his short life is something even I doubt I'd could ever match. He made me laugh, he amazed me with his craft, and the tragedy of his story saddens me. RIP.
 
I don't have the clip, but one of my favorite videos is where he's holding his boomer parents hostage while talking about Rome and niggers.

He holds up his arm as if he's channeling almighty God himself, through his clenched fist much like a lightning rod as he approaches his parents.

"Niggers are the problem."
"No they're not."
"ROME- You are a white man-" etc

At the end of the clip I know he's trying to give a speech like a superhero would. But his raised fist towards his parents and the way that the camera angle frames it as if he's going to hurt them. It's unintentionally so funny to me.

I got to see a little bit of Terry before he passed. Rest in peace, and happy birthday to God's best programmer.
 
Any words I can try to put to the miracle that was this man's existence feel trite. Genius and madness co-existing is very much it's own flavor of tragic, but Terry was *so much.*
 
I would kill Bill Gates a thousand times over to bring Terry back. Happy birthday homie.
 
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