As a person who has been greatly impacted by Eric Meyers technical work, I along with many others in the front end/ css community have been following his story over the last year. But many other people in the tech community have not.
The loss of a child is profound - and as you can see there are others here who have also gone through the loss of their child. The python programmer who lost a child might skip over all of the php posts here, but posts like this can let that person reach out the the Meyer family. The parents who posted on there loss, also are giving the rest of us valuable advice when we might not know what to do but would like to reach out.
When people who are older and have had full lives pass away, in general, as a community we know what to do. When children die, many times we are at a loss.
The other reason I would like to see posts like this remain high in the rankings - is because to outsiders - some people summarize the lot of programmers into the myopic no social skills bucket. This is generally incorrect - but if someone sees this, and it gives them from sending the "Dude when are you going to update your reset" tweet I think it is worth it.
The loss of a child is profound - and as you can see there are others here who have also gone through the loss of their child. The python programmer who lost a child might skip over all of the php posts here, but posts like this can let that person reach out the the Meyer family. The parents who posted on there loss, also are giving the rest of us valuable advice when we might not know what to do but would like to reach out.
When people who are older and have had full lives pass away, in general, as a community we know what to do. When children die, many times we are at a loss.
The other reason I would like to see posts like this remain high in the rankings - is because to outsiders - some people summarize the lot of programmers into the myopic no social skills bucket. This is generally incorrect - but if someone sees this, and it gives them from sending the "Dude when are you going to update your reset" tweet I think it is worth it.