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Hello I'm Rodrigo, co-founder of Quine (https://quine.sh). We are building novel ways for software creators to monetise their work, skills, and reputation.

Today we're releasing our first product, GitNFT (https://gitnft.quine.sh/), which enables developers to autograph and mint NFTs of their GitHub commits and list them in the OpenSea marketplace for collectors to buy.

We think commits are a great collector item. They're unique, have verifiable authorship, and are immutable by design. Moreover, they can store substantial collector value, either for their historical significance, the coolness/beauty of their code, or the popularity of the author!

The world’s digital infrastructure feeds on Open-Source Software (OSS), yet the economic value it generates does not back-propagate to its creators. GitNFT is a new monetisation mechanism that aims to make Open-Source work economically sustainable

> As for the Systems Programming section, does he really think that knowing how a compiler works is a system-related topic?? and why is that level 1? shouldn't the first level be understanding things like system calls, filesystems, drivers, kernel operation?

I think the idea is that most people will start exploring the world of programming from higher layers working their way down. People use software, then they write software with tools (languages), then they try to understand the tools, then they try to understand what the output of the tools mean on a yet deeper level, going down the rabbit hole all the way down (to physics? but I guess the lines is drawn elsewhere).

This may be wrong but it's obvious from the rest of the matrix that this is probably just based on how the author and maybe their friends gained "proficiency".

None of this is generally applicable. I do think the,matrix is still valuable. It provides a view of how some people may evaluate competence (even if misguided wrt ordering/levelling) and provides a set of goals that are not bad per se. Being on the highest levels mentioned there does probably in fact translate to a certain high degree of experience and competence.