RIP Mike Karels 1956-2024

Thank you for your insightful commentary on someone who has passed away at too young an age.

This is a great talk of his from 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws

That he passed on his way back from a BSD conference was bitter-sweet.

Karels' RFC:

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc936.txt

> I am sad to report that Mike Karels died on the way home from #BSDCan, at the age of 67. https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karel...

This man spent 40 years working on BSD. His code appears in #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, and everywhere. If you have used the Internet, you have used code he wrote. RIP, sir. You changed the world for the better. What's probably his last talk: "I don't have much to say," followed by a spellbinding eighty minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws