Wow. I remember when Audrey Tang (formerly Autrijus Tang) -- now Digital Minister in Taiwan -- was an active figure in the Perl community. She started a bunch of Perl projects and even wrote one of the first Perl 6 interpreters (Pugs) in Haskell.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang</a>
Without the donation of Maps credits from Google, findthemasks.com couldn't have happened exactly as it did. I can't imagine what our bill would have been otherwise. Donations from a number of companies were (and remain) essential to leveraging the skilled volunteer workforce into something awesome.
I'd like to breathe that tech-democratic air for a while. Does anyone know of a graduate program, or a different way in which I could (go to Taiwan and) meet the right people?
Great article.<p>A tangential benefit: I learned about Taoist breathing practices, and Pol.is.<p>I also see that the global media is very reluctant to discuss Vietnam's success in handling Covid. I wonder why.
Good article, but why are the titles always clickbait? She doesn't seem that “unlikely” to me, and she didn't hack the <i>pandemic</i> – the hacking was to do with mitigation efforts, and not the actual virus or disease.