Lars Brinkhoff
IT Consultant at ICtech
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
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Top SchoolLars Brinkhoff is an IT consultant in Gothenburg with over five decades of hands-on experience in low-level systems, embedded software and compiler work. He has adapted GCC to target legacy architectures (notably the PDP-10, which required solving word-based addressing rather than byte-based addressing) and delivered custom compiler and motor-control toolchains. Lars combines product firmware and networking experience — from adding TCP/IP to printers to developing tunnelling for media delivery — with consulting across automotive and telecom clients. An active open-source contributor, his work spans retrocomputing projects like simh and PDP-10/ITS, language-heuristic improvements in GitHub Linguist, and server-side engineering for Shields. Known for deep fluency in Emacs, Lisp, Forth and 68k-era hardware, he blends historical computing expertise with practical solutions for modern engineering challenges.
54 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Göteborgs universitetChalmers tekniska högskola
Swedish, English
Stackoverflow
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137answers
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Github Skills (40)
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Programming languages (35)
Github contributions (5)
PDP-10/its
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
Incompatible Timesharing System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:184 reviews, 1536 commits, 1338 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lars's commits primarily involved modifying files related to the Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS). Their work involved building and modifying core system components, including the monitor and various system utilities like DDT and TECO. They were also focused on building and modifying file system programs.
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github-linguist/linguist
Jul 2013 - Feb 2017
Language Savant. If your repository's language is being reported incorrectly, send us a pull request!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Language Expert
Back-end Developer & Language ExpertContributions:85 commits, 65 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Lars contributed significantly to the `github-linguist/linguist` repository, focusing on enhancing language detection heuristics. Their work involved adding new file extensions, implementing heuristics for diverse languages like Common Lisp, FORTRAN, Forth, F#, GLSL, RenderScript, and others. Furthermore, the user improved existing heuristics and addressed issues, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's core functionality and the nuances of programming languages.
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