To be honest, that pull request was awesome, hilarious, and extremely constructive. The tweets, on the other hand, were mean-spirited and negative. "Tongue-in-

To be honest, that pull request was awesome, hilarious, and extremely constructive. The tweets, on the other hand, were mean-spirited and negative. "Tongue-in-cheek comments and a very lax tone" make our community less sterile and boring. The fear of a sterile and unhappy programming environment personally drove me away from programming, and I elected to study music instead. I will always be grateful to Ruby on Rails, Github and the developer community for helping me to rediscover my love of software engineering, and get back into a career that I love.