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> Several years ago, just before my 40th birthday, I switched careers from sales, marketing and consulting to learn how to program, with the goal of making the
by joenot443 3y ago
> Several years ago, just before my 40th birthday, I switched careers from sales, marketing and consulting to learn how to program, with the goal of making the world a better place through code [1]
It checks out, sales/consulting folks are pretty infamous for their tendency to abuse metrics. The metric here is npm downloads and Github stars.
The strategy does mean that he's _technically_ not inaccurate in claiming this on his LinkedIn -
> NASA, Microsoft, Google, AMEX, Target, IBM, Apple, Facebook, Airbus, Mercedes, Salesforce, and hundreds of thousands of other organizations depend on code I wrote to power their developer tools and consumer applications.
I encountered this type a lot in college consulting groups, it's a little funny seeing one make their way to the OSS community.
[1] https://github.com/jonschlinkert https://github.com/jonschlinkert
- whaleofatw2022 3y agoYeah but this might make him the Patient Zero for modern tech influencing and blogspam.
- galangalalgol 3y agoAnyone know if this has spread to crates.io yet? I see plenty of name squatting, but I haven't run into real crates trying to insert themselves into everything. Namespaces are sorely needed, including some semi-official ones. candi::rand would be reasonable for candidates to enter std. Watching the battles over tokio getting into candi would be fun.
- internetter 3y ago> Watching the battles over tokio getting into candi would be fun. What would be the argument for this? It's my understanding that the lack of a default runtime is considered a strength
- jd24 3y ago> To date, I've created more than 1,000 open source projects This dude is counting each one as a project hahaha
- buttercraft 3y agoIt's the truth but not the whole truth
- jv22222 3y agoIt reminds me of graffiti tagging!