The article author carries the same kind of exuberance I saw in people who discovered programming in the 1980s.<p>I also read his amusing presentation on OpenBSD here. I don't really program in pure C anymore, but I liked learning about strlcat and strlcpy, among other things [1].<p>It's amazing that a self-described programming newbie gets his changes committed into a high-stakes-security distro like OpenBSD. My conjecture is that this must say something about the OpenBSD developer community culture.<p>Has anyone reading this commited to both Linux and OpenBSD? It looks to me like the OpenBSD crowd is a lot friendlier, at least judging by some relatively recent comments from Linux developers [2] (funny, but ouch.)<p>[1] <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/event/10343/bcallah-nycbugjan2014.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.nycbug.org/event/10343/bcallah-nycbugjan2014.pdf</a><p>[2] <a href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/495" rel="nofollow">https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/495</a>