Julia Evans
The Zines
Explaining systems programming so people actually understand it
Rating
85Impact score
Domains
Systems programmingDebuggingTechnical writing
Scouting report
Writes hand-drawn zines and a long-running blog that explain strace, tcpdump, DNS, containers, git internals and networking better than the manuals do, mostly by working through her own confusion in public. Wrote a Ruby profiler and various debugging tools. An enormous number of engineers learned how their machine works from her drawings.
Curator’s note
Made "I do not understand this yet" a legitimate way to write documentation.
Sources
- 01Julia Evans’ blog jvns.ca
- 02Wizard Zines wizardzines.com