Sharing my work
Today I have released a piece of software that I have written as free software. It's a small library that is used to generate the information stuck to an MP3 file that tells your MP3 player what you are listening to, something called an ID3 tag. The software is mostly simple, but it uses some of the advanced CRC32 reversal stuff that I blogged about a while back, so it has some neat features if you're in the business of creating dynamic metadata to audio files stored in dynamically created zip files. My prediction would be that very few people would actually use this, but the standard ID3 generation functionality is probably useful to some.
Anyway, I'm really happy to be able to give back to the free software community, small pieces of software that I have written. My dream is to some day write a piece of software that grows it's own community around it, with other people contributing new functionality and fixes to problems. I hope that some day that dream will come true. For now it's just me publishing small parts of the software I write. Not all that bad.
For interested parties the information about my library, named id3j, is found at Voxbiblia's Free software page.
Update:
Changed the name of the released package, because of a naming collision.
I got my name in the paper!
When I was ten years old someone at Budbäraren, the weekly publication of the christian congregation that I was a member of at the time, did a human interest story on me. I remember the interview clearly, we talked about my interests and she took my picture when I played the violin, took a ride with my skateboard and played in the park. The feeling of seeing my name in print when the article was finally out was nothing short of amazing. Exactly the kind of attention I love.
Today I got a similar feeling, when my business partner Johan was interviewed in Financial Times about our company, Voxbiblia. And he even mentioned my name, next to the title "talented programmer". It feels almost like I'm ten again. Not quite, but close.
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