Very sad. I had met Mikeal a few times in the nearly Node community hackathons and meetups. He had been in my orbit of Node.js and Oakland communities for decades but we were never close. Always felt like ships in the night. I had been following his cancer diaries hoping for the best. There truly was a magic to that early Node.js hacker house days and Mikeal was a huge driving force for that.
Bryan, thanks for publishing, this is great work. I'm curious if this this build could fit and swap a 13.3 E-ink screen with display board. Some open source hardware synergy with https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider/tree/main
I was really impressed with the online presentation of EmacsConf 2024. Everything captured and published in org-mode: Transcripts, Comments, QA, Video links. Was really nice to peruse.
Deeply nested inline anonymous function callbacks are the anti pattern. Decoupled explicit named functions passed as callbacks are a significantly better developer experience and provide clearer stack traces. I never understood why this conversation didn't take the lexicon and instead the imo inferior `async` pattern got pushed hard.
I have also experienced this phenomenon. Finding some brilliant hack used in a randos personal project to work around a bug or deficiency in a popular library.
Finding a library with no documentation then Searching GitHub to see personal projects where the owner has already reverse engineered and integrated.
I always admired Github for incentivizing public repositories to promote collaboration and open source. Would hate to see that fade away.