Profiles on Soup, Serifs, and Other Hills I'll Die Onhttps://ellie.geekministry.org/tags/profiles/Recent content in Profiles on Soup, Serifs, and Other Hills I'll Die OnHugoenSat, 14 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0500The Most Important Coder You've Never Heard Ofhttps://ellie.geekministry.org/posts/the-most-important-coder-youve-never-heard-of/Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0500https://ellie.geekministry.org/posts/the-most-important-coder-youve-never-heard-of/<p>There&rsquo;s a question that surfaces constantly in tech circles: <em>who is the most brilliant coder alive today?</em></p> <p>The usual names come up — Linus Torvalds, John Carmack, Fabrice Bellard. All deserving. But there&rsquo;s someone whose body of work rivals any of them, and most people outside the security world couldn&rsquo;t name him.</p> <p>His name is Christien Rioux.</p>