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A really good example of this would be TJ, who is known in the JS community as one of the authors of Express.js and has done a lot of Node.js-related stuff. But
by franciscop 10y ago
A really good example of this would be TJ, who is known in the JS community as one of the authors of Express.js and has done a lot of Node.js-related stuff. But I follow TJ on twitter and he does a lot of unrelated work and has started a company recently [3]. Another good example would be Elon Musk, whom I think needs no introduction here.
[1] https://github.com/tj https://github.com/tj
[2] https://twitter.com/tjholowaychuk https://twitter.com/tjholowaychuk
[3] https://apex.sh/ping/ https://apex.sh/ping/
- STRiDEX 10y agoWe have an ongoing joke at our office where we ask if TJ wrote it. It being a package we're adding to our project. Was true more often in the past, but its still funny.
- d0lph 10y agoWasn't there a theory a while back that TJ was not even a real person, but a collective, simply because of how many things he was involved in?
- jaredsohn 10y agohttps://www.quora.com/TJ-Holowaychuk-1/How-is-TJ-Holowaychuk-so-insanely-productive https://www.quora.com/TJ-Holowaychuk-1/How-is-TJ-Holowaychuk...
- pluma 10y agoIn the Node ecosystem there was actually more than one person like that -- substack being another obvious example if you're into micro modules (he actually has more modules on npm now than TJ). At various points I was fairly certain that the entirety of all my dependencies were written by no more than three individual people.
- STRiDEX 10y agoAgreed, I've seen a few people like that, TJ just became memorable.