I never met Joe, but he was also a huge inspiration to me, for a lot of the same reasons you touched on. His blog is filled with write-ups of tiny projects of

I never met Joe, but he was also a huge inspiration to me, for a lot of the same reasons you touched on. His blog is filled with write-ups of tiny projects of his, all of them humble and always written with the goal of crafting beautiful systems. Anyone could do worse than reading everything he's written. Thanks for sharing this. I'm glad to know that one of my heroes was as wonderful offline as he was online :)