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Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen

371•SmolCloud•2mo ago
Hello, please forgive any grammatical errors on my part for I am not an English native speaker. I found this thread regarding the death of ttn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37457796

I am Thien-Thi's daughter, my dad was a very private person, so I found out about the thread only recently.

Since I can't leave a comment, I'm making a new thread to thank everyone for the kind words regarding his passing.

Comments

jeffrallen•2mo ago
Thanks for stopping by, peace to your family.
block_hacks•2mo ago
peace
keane•2mo ago
Free software contributors improve the world with a spirit of generosity. I’m thankful your father shared his talents. My condolences to your family!
notorandit•2mo ago
We'd need more people like your dad.
suchoudh•2mo ago
sorry for your loss.

thanks for letting us know

jdblair•2mo ago
peace be with you
lproven•2mo ago
Oh my word. I did not see that earlier thread. I knew Thien-Thi when he lived and worked in Brno for a while around 2015. He was a fascinating man, and I very much enjoyed talking with him over a few beers several times. Very sad news indeed. My condolences to you and to the rest of his family.
tamnd•2mo ago
"Emacs is the ground. We run around and act silly on top of it, and when we die, may our remnants grace its ongoing incrementation." - Thien-Thi Nguyen

https://savannah.gnu.org/users/ttn

nalaginrut•1mo ago
I never met TTN physically, but I'm familiar with him in cyberspace from his code. I didn’t realize he was a private person in real life. From his work, I always felt he was someone deeply passionate, someone who expressed his creativity wholeheartedly through code.

He was one of the pioneers of GNU Guile. It was a lonely and thorny road. Guile was an underappreciated project with a small community, limited tooling for exploration, and very few reference projects to learn from. Only true lovers of the craft were willing to contribute under such conditions.

TTN had spent his precious life time to help to make the foundation of GNU Guile community. His works and skills in the code inspired me a lot in the early time.

I’ve heard that he also contributed to other free software projects, though what I’ve written here is what I know firsthand.

It says, the internet has its own memory. I hope that by writing this to remember what he did and the quiet impact he had.