4 year old got her first linux kernel patch accepted

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/110900072073406421

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ono@lemmy.ca · 39 pts · 2y

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/407

Date	Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:42:06 -0700
From	Jonathan Corbet <>
Subject	Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix formatting to make 's' happy

On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:54:17 +0200 (EET)
Tero Roponen  wrote:

> From: Maisa Roponen 
> 
> "That letter [the last s] is sad because all the others
> have those things [=] below them and it does not."
> 
> This patch fixes the tragedy so all the letters can
> be happy again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maisa Roponen 
> [The author being 4 years old needed some assistance]
> Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen 
> ---
> When I was reading the documentation, my 4-year-old
> niece wanted to see what I was doing. After telling her,
> she noticed that something was very wrong and asked
> me to fix it. Instead, I helped her fix it herself.

Please inform your niece that the patch has been applied and that the
lonely "s" need pine away no longer.

Thanks,

jon
fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 2y

That is so wonderfully wholesome; I needed that today.

UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y (2 replies)

For one second I thought this was, like, Euler's second coming with a child just looking at code and being like:"Huh, so thats programming? Btw. you made an whoopsie there! frantically pointing"

Num10ck@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

somewhere there are such geniuses undiscovered because they were born in the wrong place and in an unfavorable configuration. that hurts us all more than we'll ever know.

Otome-chan@kbin.social · 26 pts · 2y

I saw the title and was about to start calling bullshit but then I actually read it and it's honestly the most adorable and wholesome thing. Her patch is greatly needed, and is critically important. I can't believe that such a major bug was missed by the dev team.

triarius@programming.dev · 22 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I wonder what editor she used. Hope it was vim!

custom_situation@lemm.ee · 44 pts · 2y (2 replies)

if this 4 year old is proficient with emacs i’m going to kill myself

heyoni@lemm.ee · 23 pts · 2y

Let’s just make room for the next generation

robinm@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2y

And you should not forget that Emacs is way harder when you are 4 because your hands are smaller!

thingsiplay@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
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DannyMac@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

Man this warms my heart ;‿;

robinm@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y

So cute!

ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y
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