I don't really javascript... all the screenshots in his post calling him "the worst maintainer," is that just because he had the audacity to ask for money or is there something else behind it?
Can't really be a bad maintainer when you're thanklessly keeping a critical piece of compatibility software up-to-date for no pay since the capitalists let the internet standards be all piecemeal and fucked up.
He's largely responsible for holding this critical piece of the ecosystem together by himself with little to no funding and had a stint in jail for reasons he goes over in the post, so there's bound to be some slippage in addressing issues.
Open source maintainers get a lot of toxicity from the wider tech industry in general. It's a largely thankless job that often resembles working a service industry job in terms of interactions with your "customers".
I'm surprised he didn't offer to go back to the chemical factory after returning to full time work as a donation funded JavaScript library maintainer. Name a worse niche for software development, you fucking can't
If I were a web developer, I'd feel a great pang of anxiety when building my project and seeing libraries 3-levels removed from me desparately ask for money. As if there were some great precarity the whole environment was perched upon... One left-pad from disaster...
"You're the worst developer! Die you rushsin fascist!" I would email, wiping a bead of sweat off my brow. There's a zoom meeting with the client in ten minutes, and he's going to yell at me about the font size again. I don't have time for this maintainer bullshit.
I don't really javascript... all the screenshots in his post calling him "the worst maintainer," is that just because he had the audacity to ask for money or is there something else behind it?
Either way I hope he burns it all down
Can't really be a bad maintainer when you're thanklessly keeping a critical piece of compatibility software up-to-date for no pay since the capitalists let the internet standards be all piecemeal and fucked up.
He's largely responsible for holding this critical piece of the ecosystem together by himself with little to no funding and had a stint in jail for reasons he goes over in the post, so there's bound to be some slippage in addressing issues.
Open source maintainers get a lot of toxicity from the wider tech industry in general. It's a largely thankless job that often resembles working a service industry job in terms of interactions with your "customers".
I'm surprised he didn't offer to go back to the chemical factory after returning to full time work as a donation funded JavaScript library maintainer. Name a worse niche for software development, you fucking can't
If I were a web developer, I'd feel a great pang of anxiety when building my project and seeing libraries 3-levels removed from me desparately ask for money. As if there were some great precarity the whole environment was perched upon... One left-pad from disaster...
"You're the worst developer! Die you rushsin fascist!" I would email, wiping a bead of sweat off my brow. There's a zoom meeting with the client in ten minutes, and he's going to yell at me about the font size again. I don't have time for this maintainer bullshit.
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