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Their personal site is gorgeous: https://bsago.me https://bsago.me The tech notes are particularly useful: https://bsago.me/tech-notes https://bsago.me/tech-no
by sillysaurusx 3y ago
Their personal site is gorgeous: https://bsago.me https://bsago.me
The tech notes are particularly useful: https://bsago.me/tech-notes https://bsago.me/tech-notes
There’s a ray of hope on their RSS feed: https://bsago.me/tech-notes/feed.json https://bsago.me/tech-notes/feed.json
The last published date is September 2022, which is almost a year after their last GitHub activity: https://github.com/ogham?tab=overview&from=2021-12-01&to=2021-12-31 https://github.com/ogham?tab=overview&from=2021-12-01&to=202...
So in absence of other information, I’d rather believe they’re ok. I’ve gone through periods of my life where I blow off all existing responsibilities and reinvent myself. A big project like exa comes with a lot of responsibilities that don’t become apparent until it explodes in popularity; it’s understandable for people to want to disassociate from those.
Some might argue that open source authors have a responsibility to communicate status, but it seems like Benjamin fulfilled that by making sure exa had additional maintainers that could update the readme with a deprecation notice.
One other strange phenomenon is that when you run from a responsibility, it can feel like more and more of a hurdle to come back and face it, at least for me. So it’s probably best to assume they’re fine and to put as little pressure on them as possible. Even just popping in to say “I’m still alive” can feel like pressure.
- blumomo 3y ago[flagged]
- Macha 3y agoSingular they is not a thing that was made up by trans people, but has been annoying pedants for centuries.
- dmix 3y agoYeah occasionally mixing a singular "they" that way is very common in english in certain contexts. Particularly when its short clear paragraphs talking about a single person. But that's still a distinction from being used as a pronoun everywhere, which can definitely get confusing quickly, even for non-ESL readers... which is all that really matters in writing/communication. I'm seeing it more often in journalism now where multiple people or organizations are referred to through out an article and then "they" gets thrown in liberally for social etiquette. It takes serious mental effort to keep track of who they are referring to. Might as well just always use their name at that point to avoid both conflict and confusion shrug.
- snarkyturtle 3y agoIn this context, it could read as he and his family, or just people around him. We're all not one person, we're a reflection of people we interact with. Hence, "they".