This article is already old news for me and largely irrelevant as i don’t use much in the way of rando js modules, random packages, etc. However the subject is interesting due to the conversations that has spawned:

• It’s not fun anymore
• Open Source Is Not About You
• If it’s not fun anymore, you get nothing from maintaining a popular package
• I don’t know what to say - a more commented reddit discussion Etc.

As always, the hell is in the comments from these posts but mostly this boils down to a couple of things for me:

• i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again - there’s comfort in the blinking cursor.

• i fail to understand anyone who wishes to be a specialist. but, having said that, i completely understand why someone would become one.

• if there’s something worth saying, i don’t know what it is or where you’d even bother saying it.

• the best utterances are the absurd noises made during sleep.

• i’m missing something but i’m not sure what it is.

Your APIs mean nothing to me

I never know quite what I’m doing. I build and code and build and paint and draw and code and etc. etc. etc. until something coalesces.

I don’t believe in a singular work or statement.

With enough scripts you’ve made a program.