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Can we all agree that it's a little weird to pause mid-article to fawn upon one's own code? I love Kenneth Reitz and admire his skill but "come on, man."

mattdeboard 14y ago
No, we can't all agree that anything about that post was "weird". I didn't even see any "fawning". Just someone who's enthusiastic about his code. It's ok to love something you made and let people you think it's great. "Fawning" doesn't even mean what you think it means.
- kenneth_reitz 14y ago
  Yeah, it's not like I want to tattoo the source code all over my body or anything.
  - Rayne 14y ago
    Well, now I kind of want you to.
  - dguaraglia 14y ago
    Haha, on the other hand, one of the typical interview questions is 'mention something you built that you are proud of'. A developer's satisfaction with his own craftsmanship is, to me, a must.
    - slurgfest 14y ago
      So you can't just produce good, solid output without congratulating yourself in public? Interesting.
      - dguaraglia 14y ago
        No, what I meant is that if someone is proud of their code and aren't afraid to share it with the world you should know probably lighten the hell up and let them be.
  - jimmytucson 14y ago
    I wasn't trying to be mean, I just chuckled when you said, "Beautiful." I'm grateful for the love and care you've put into libraries like 'requests'. When I've been toiling away at a program for hours and it winds up resembling something like spaghetti mixed with beer shits, I find that if I stop and study some of your code, I am instantly a better programmer.
    - kenneth_reitz 14y ago
      Oh, I was just poking fun at the guy that responded. He has a testimonial on the requests homepage: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/v1.0.0/ http://docs.python-requests.org/en/v1.0.0/ > I’m going to get @kennethreitz’s Python requests module tattooed on my body, somehow. The whole thing. — Matt DeBoard
  - mattdeboard 14y ago
    Now that sounds like a great idea.

mattdeboard 14y ago

No, we can't all agree that anything about that post was "weird". I didn't even see any "fawning". Just someone who's enthusiastic about his code. It's ok to love something you made and let people you think it's great. "Fawning" doesn't even mean what you think it means.

kenneth_reitz 14y ago
Yeah, it's not like I want to tattoo the source code all over my body or anything.
- Rayne 14y ago
  Well, now I kind of want you to.
- dguaraglia 14y ago
  Haha, on the other hand, one of the typical interview questions is 'mention something you built that you are proud of'. A developer's satisfaction with his own craftsmanship is, to me, a must.
  - slurgfest 14y ago
    So you can't just produce good, solid output without congratulating yourself in public? Interesting.
    - dguaraglia 14y ago
      No, what I meant is that if someone is proud of their code and aren't afraid to share it with the world you should know probably lighten the hell up and let them be.
- jimmytucson 14y ago
  I wasn't trying to be mean, I just chuckled when you said, "Beautiful." I'm grateful for the love and care you've put into libraries like 'requests'. When I've been toiling away at a program for hours and it winds up resembling something like spaghetti mixed with beer shits, I find that if I stop and study some of your code, I am instantly a better programmer.
  - kenneth_reitz 14y ago
    Oh, I was just poking fun at the guy that responded. He has a testimonial on the requests homepage: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/v1.0.0/ http://docs.python-requests.org/en/v1.0.0/ > I’m going to get @kennethreitz’s Python requests module tattooed on my body, somehow. The whole thing. — Matt DeBoard
- mattdeboard 14y ago
  Now that sounds like a great idea.