Also, this is why we still gravitate toward FOSS communities. It's the last vestige of a dying era. A circle where people like that have a chance to hang up together and keep the warm feeling of being human.

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hinkley 2 days ago | parent [-]

FOSS is a bit like blogging in that a lot of it seems to be motivated by a desire to win an argument you lost once already.

I’m a maintainer on one library in small part because of an argument I had with a maintainer of a similar library years ago. And nearly a maintainer on another one. I voted with my feet and made improvements to DX an/or performance because I can’t pull down a wrongheaded project but I can pull up a better one.

(Incidentally I looked at his issue log the other day and it’s 95% an enumeration of the feature list of the one I’m helping out on. Ha!)

	▲	aquariusDue 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I've never thought about it this way but now that you mention it both blogging and FOSS once stripped of substance seem like L'esprit de l'escalier externalized. Do I go soul searching now or start a blog?
	▲	BiteCode_dev 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Never put it this way before, but it's exactly why I started blogging. I was fed up with how bad Python content was online.