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<a href="https://opensourcebridge.org/users/432">Jamey Sharp</a> was placed on Ritalin, briefly, in fifth grade. His interests and <a href="https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/jamey">activities</a> have been varied ever since. Today his day job involves <a href="https://www.tovatest.com/">a computer test for attention deficit disorder</a>, but his biggest projects have been the <a href="https://psas.pdx.edu/">Portland State Aerospace Society</a>, a student rocketry club at Portland State University; <a href="https://xcb.freedesktop.org/">XCB</a>, a new low-level binding to the X protocol, in the process of replacing Xlib; and <a href="https://serialist.net/">Serialist</a>, because his other projects didn’t leave him enough time to read his favorite webcomics without tool support.<br>
Jamey’s interests span computer science fields including cryptography, combinatorial search, compilers, and computational complexity; systems-level programming, such as file format and network protocol implementations, Linux kernel development, and boot-loader hacking; computer architecture and its impact on software design; and functional programming, preferably in Haskell.<br>
This interview focuses on Jamey's work on X.org, specifically the XCB project. The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) is a replacement for Xlib featuring a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility.<br>
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XCB project site - https://xcb.freedesktop.org/<br>
XCB mailing list - https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xcb<br>
XCB irc          - irc.freenode.net #xcb<br>
<A HREF="https://opensourcebridge.org/users/432">https://opensourcebridge.org/users/432</A><br>
<A HREF="https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/jamey">https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/jamey</A><br>
<A HREF="https://www.tovatest.com/">https://www.tovatest.com/</A><br>
<A HREF="https://psas.pdx.edu/">https://psas.pdx.edu/</A><br>
<A HREF="https://xcb.freedesktop.org/">https://xcb.freedesktop.org/</A><br>
<A HREF="https://serialist.net/">https://serialist.net/</A><br>
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