Usually when there's an obituary on HN, I go straight to the comments to read all of the tech-is-a-village "I took his intro to computing course at MIT" or "I w

Usually when there's an obituary on HN, I go straight to the comments to read all of the tech-is-a-village "I took his intro to computing course at MIT" or "I worked with her at Atari when we were 15 people in a basement apartment" anecdotes. It's interesting to see that John Walker's legacy here is instead defined by his work, his writing, and his correspondence. (Not to diminish the value of those contributions, of course - that's an artifact of the life he presumably wanted to lead. And his legacy is perhaps the more durable for it.)