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He writes "find people who inspire you, but don't idolize them". And yet, his blog repository[1] which is, in his words, "This is just a stupid simple server t
by fiatjaf 10y ago
He writes "find people who inspire you, but don't idolize them".
And yet, his blog repository[1] which is, in his words, "This is just a stupid simple server that indexes posts off the filesystem", has 1193 stars. Why would anyone star anything like that if not because they idolize jlongster?
[1]: https://github.com/jlongster/blog https://github.com/jlongster/blog
- nsfmc 10y agoi don't see the contradiction. he's not asking for people to star his repo and it's not unreasonable to offer this advice if you perceive harmful cults of personality developing in a community. besides, lots of people just star things for lots of different reasons, bookmarking, giving props or ???.
- __derek__ 10y agoAs he notes in the README, the old version was more interesting.[1] I suspect that most people starred the repo at that point. [1]: https://github.com/jlongster/blog/tree/react-blog https://github.com/jlongster/blog/tree/react-blog
- brokenmachine 10y agoI star githubs just in case I might want to read them later, with no comment implied about what I think of the author or even the content.
- nitely 10y agoHis previous blog did react.js server side rendering. That's prolly it. Plus, may be it was an advice to his followers as well.