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Justine Tunney
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| Born | 1984 (age 40–41) |
| Occupation | Software developer |
Justine Tunney, born in 1984, is an American computer expert who creates software. She also used to be an activist, which means she worked to bring about social or political change.
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About Justine Tunney
Justine started making and sharing computer programs when she was young, in 1998. She created software for other computer enthusiasts and explored early internet services like AOL.
When Justine was 14, in 1999, she used the online name "Oogle." Around that time, someone else registered the website name oogle.com. Later, in 2012, the company Google tried to get that website name, but they were not successful.
Her Role in the Occupy Movement
In July 2011, Justine registered the @occupywallst name on Twitter and the website occupywallst.org. These became important online places for the Occupy movement. This movement was a series of protests that focused on economic inequality.
Working at Google and Beyond
In 2012, Justine began working at Google as a software engineer. She helped fix a security problem in a widely used software library called Apache Commons. This library was used in many open-source projects, which are programs that anyone can see and change.
Justine found that many projects on GitHub, a popular platform for sharing code, had this problem. She started sending out fixes and got about 50 other Google employees to help. They used a special tool called BigQuery to find all the projects that were affected. They found 2,600 projects with the problem. She noted that this type of problem even affected the San Francisco public transportation system, making it vulnerable to a type of cyberattack called ransomware.
Software Projects
Justine Tunney is known for creating some very clever software projects.
Redbean 2
Justine created a special computer program called Redbean 2. It is a web server, which is a program that delivers web pages to your computer. What makes Redbean 2 unique is that it can run on many different types of computers and operating systems as a single file. A technology news website called The Register described it as "a bunch of almost unbelievably clever tech tricks."
Cosmopolitan 3
On October 31, 2023, Justine released the third version of Cosmopolitan. This is a core part of the Redbean project. It's a special library of code that helps programs run on many different operating systems. This means that a single program built with Cosmopolitan can work on various computers without needing to be changed for each one.
