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For better or worse (or better in this case, I believe), I don’t know the famous dude. I won’t tell you my bonafides, either. If you’ve got someone with a part

by dfee 7y ago

For better or worse (or better in this case, I believe), I don’t know the famous dude. I won’t tell you my bonafides, either. If you’ve got someone with a particular skill set joining your project, that’s great that you’ve got strong, additional perspective in that domain. However, this isn’t a sixty minute game, and no one is getting paid millions to hit a game winning shot. This is open source software. I hope as an industry we learn to drop the theatrics and recognize our unique way of bringing value to whichever projects we contribute to.

AlchemistCamp 7y ago
> This is open source software. Well, he made Gravatar, Jekyll, TOML and quite a few other open source things I've used. Accuse me of "theatrics" if you like, but I am in fact inclined to check out projects made by people who have made other things I like. I also read books written by people who have written other books I like. I watch movies with directors and actors from other movies I like, too! It's not a sure-fire guarantee I'll like the next thing but odds are considerably improved. Not updating my priors when learning of their involvement would be ridiculous.