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Do you remember TJ Holowaychuk?

• samblr 8y ago
  Honestly, I would pay to see video-screen-share of how guys like TJ code.
• zimpenfish 8y ago
  He's been posted to HN a bunch of times since 2015-01-01. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=holowaychuk&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=custom&type=story&dateStart=1420070400&dateEnd=1548979200 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=holowaychuk&sort=byDate&prefix... Seems to be working on a startup which might explain the lack of noise.
• eulalila 8y ago
  Genuinely inspirational that, looks like he’s now living in London with a hot Russian girlfriend working with sane, stable tools on small, developer focused products, and his homepage is still photography vs a bunch of shite little blog posts. Difference between living to code and coding to live kids, take note.
• martimatix 8y ago
  Isn't he working on apex up? https://github.com/apex/up https://github.com/apex/up
• sdwisely 8y ago
  I remember him from the Ruby community before that. Is there a correlation? probably not. Life happens.
• hazza1 8y ago
  https://www.quora.com/Has-TJ-Holowaychuk-been-as-prolific-in-the-Golang-community-as-he-was-in-the-Node-js-community https://www.quora.com/Has-TJ-Holowaychuk-been-as-prolific-in... "my new goal is to live a better life. In the end open-source doesn’t pay the bills so it’s best to focus on other things if you can, or if you just enjoy the project then that’s cool."
  • malthejorgensen 8y ago
    This. IMO he's still a "rockstar". It's just the Node and JS community that hypes everything disproportionally (they used to at least). The fact that he single-handedly built Apex (https://github.com/apex/apex https://github.com/apex/apex) show that he's still prolific, and a programmer of note. There's a similar story for Sindre Sorhus, who moved on from the JS community to Swift.
  • ilkkao 8y ago
    He is active in Twitter: https://twitter.com/tjholowaychuk https://twitter.com/tjholowaychuk
  • yeahitslikethat 8y ago
    It pays the bills for the business minded folks who sell it. Imagine any other industry of craftsman who worked countless hours building stuff that profited everyone but themselves while they complain about H1-B's taking their jobs. They give their work away for free while complaining someone else is willing to work for even less. And programmers are supposedly smart.
• zoba 8y ago
  There was a whole conspiracy theory that he was a collective rather than an individual. https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-TJ-Holowaychuk-is-real-I-dont-think-someone-can-be-as-productive-as-he-is?ch=10&share=73bce5cf&srid=hIhw https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-TJ-Holowaychuk-is-real-I-...
• recurser 8y ago
  I’m a customer of his uptime service (https://apex.sh/ping/ https://apex.sh/ping/), and following up framework (https://up.docs.apex.sh/ https://up.docs.apex.sh/) with interest, but haven’t used it yet. Perhaps he is more focused on career and family, and less on open source? If so, good for him.
• fpaboim 8y ago
  Apex up is nice, cool to know he's behind apex.