This has to be the funniest tech article I have ever read. I was literally laughing out loud. I don't even remember the last time I had such an emotional response to a tech article. Probably it was something by whytheluckystiff back in my teenage.
Lars has written about his interactions with Linus before in this article: https://liw.fi/linux20/
I fondly remember these lines:
That summer, I re-connected with my fellow students from the university,
including Linus. One of the students a few years older than Linus and me,
Patrik, had a sauna in the building he lived, and he booked it once a week
for the group of us. You perverts who think the word sauna is a synonym for
brothel can stop imagining orgies: in Finland, saunas are for bathing,
medication, even meditation, not sex.
There’s a semi-famous picture of Linus, looking naked, drinking beer. The
picture was taken at Patrik’s, by a fellow student, Stina, and Linus is
wearing trousers, but it was a hot summer day, so he didn’t have his shirt
on. No orgies. Really.
There is almost a (probably misleading) glimmer of “i could have done that”, because the story is so human, he really did have to learn assembly by printing A and Bs, he didn’t have a grand design and just smash out an OS in vim and upload it! This is real agile programming.
