The following are only my lax feelings. There was a time here on HN a few years back were Drew was often on the front page. He seemed to be a growing Open Sourc

The following are only my lax feelings. There was a time here on HN a few years back were Drew was often on the front page. He seemed to be a growing Open Source star. He had opinions, but also projects to show. I don't know if he changed or I changed, but for me he got some attitude problem. It certainly is not easy to be impartial when you are in the spotlight, but his opinions took a bit too self-righteous turn for me. It could be just miscommunication on his part (or misreading on my part), but I felt many times that I mostly agreed with him, but was not a fan of how he put it. I like what he does even if I don't really use any of his software. Now that he was involved in a new language he seems to get more bad press with it, I think mostly because he is someone that is Internet semi-famous. I think he has his niche and people should just leave him be. As it is the question of popularity it is sad that work he was involved with also suffers, making this spiral that gets back to him. Probably what would help the most would be to go a little under the radar. It is unfair, but the Internet drain pipe must forget that he's a subject to pin things to. In his place I would limit writing to things not easily consumed by masses or associated with him - like mailing lists. It sucks, because who wouldn't like to be free to express himself and to advertise his work, but there is no spam filter for the public Internet.