Despite the obvious levity, this is actually serious. It was made by why the lucky stiff, a pretty prominent member of Ruby community, back in the day. This, however, was part of his mysterious burnout manifesto, for lack of better term. He really really bloody needed a break.

“programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more.”

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    7 months ago

    I miss why… he was what everyone really needed, and the industry destroyed him. I haven’t seen anyone like him since.