====== SALVAGE SPACE: PROGRAMMING ====== Whether working solo, in cooperation with other hackers, or through deploying and managing parallel software agents to help them, Adventurers can find endless amounts of programming-related tasks to fill their downtime. ☐ **RESEARCH** \\ Exploring and assimilating the constant stream of discoveries for hardware and software or running large-scale data analysis to discover knowledge from information. ☐ **PROGRAMMING** \\ Creating new hardware and software solutions to solve problems, ranging from simple tools to complex engines like operating systems or synthetic intelligence. ☐ **BREAKING / PATCHING** \\ Deliberately attempting to crash software or misuse hardware to find weaknesses and creating specific improvements for the deficient areas. ☐ **HARDWARE UPGRADES** \\ Designing, building, assembling, or replacing components or entire computers. ☐ **MAINTENANCE** \\ Running cleaners, optimizing tools, data organizers, security sweepers, or regular upgrades. ☐ **PORTING** \\ Converting software and data from one system to another. ☐ **PROFILING** \\ Building test systems for hardware and software and benchmark performance using different configurations to remove bottlenecks and improve the response of the system. ▲ [[:Chronology:]] ~~DISCUSSION~~