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David Nolen - http://swannodette.github.io/ http://swannodette.github.io/ James Long - http://jlongster.com/ http://jlongster.com/ I follow these guys for sim
by Davertron 10y ago
David Nolen - http://swannodette.github.io/ http://swannodette.github.io/
James Long - http://jlongster.com/ http://jlongster.com/
I follow these guys for similar reasons. They always seem to be a couple steps ahead of the rest of the industry and it's frankly a little embarrassing how productive they are. Come to think of it maybe I'd feel better about myself as a programmer if I stopped following them...
- thom 10y agoAgreed on David Nolen, although I regularly feel he doesn't know how much smarter than the average developer he is, and I find a lot of his work inscrutable from both the documentation and API standpoint.
- sbensu 10y agoThat impression goes away quickly when you meet him since he is a tremendously empathic person and clear speaker. The difference, in my opinion, is that he expects another level of effort/investment from the consumers of his work than other open source contributors. That mismatch often causes frustration from people that are not used to it. In my case, it quickly went away once I understood the implicit contract.
- Shicholas 10y agoI mean this in the most respectful way possible: David Nolen has a reached a level of enlightment the French describe as jouissance I will never achieve.
- gf263 10y agoI recently had the chance to see David Nolen speak at CUSEC, it was an amazing experience. I think back to it a lot.