I was around in the Clojure reddit when Rich's gist was published. It was centered around a really, really specific scenario:
A well-experienced community member had a strong following: wrote many libraries, articles, and even started contributing to core. Over time, they had more and more thoughts about how Clojure core should work and what the priorities should be. After some inciting incident, he used his reputation to start rallying his followers on social media against the maintainers and leadership to push for his way.
That's what sparked that post as Rich felt it was unacceptable to rally people against the maintainers and leadership because you did not get your way in a PR or discussion.
I can see where he's coming from as I wouldn't want open-source projects to be ran by the person who can drum up the biggest and meanest mob either. Personally, I wish it was handled with more tact on both sides but eh, no one is perfect.
Was using a few paid apps for various automation tasks on OS X:
- Hazel for automated tasks
- Mosaic for layout shortcuts
- Moom for layout grid drawing
Since discovering spacehammer, was able to use it to replace all those tools. Even had the opportunity to create one of my dream features: Can highlight any code sample in a browser or most other apps, press leader-t and select the tmux session to send the code, turning just about any page into a repl driven workflow.
A few years back I started contributing to spacehammer and refactored it to use a centralized config to make it easier for people to jump in and customize the menu and features.
Lua is ok to me but much prefer lisp languages like fennel, code feels more expressive and faster to produce using paredit lisp editing shortcuts in my editor.
A well-experienced community member had a strong following: wrote many libraries, articles, and even started contributing to core. Over time, they had more and more thoughts about how Clojure core should work and what the priorities should be. After some inciting incident, he used his reputation to start rallying his followers on social media against the maintainers and leadership to push for his way.
That's what sparked that post as Rich felt it was unacceptable to rally people against the maintainers and leadership because you did not get your way in a PR or discussion.
I can see where he's coming from as I wouldn't want open-source projects to be ran by the person who can drum up the biggest and meanest mob either. Personally, I wish it was handled with more tact on both sides but eh, no one is perfect.