Mastodon toot by the author (Filipa Mendonça-Vieira):
After the recent Rubygems drama, I felt anxious, and trapped, frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life.
I found myself grieving, and mourning the future I grew up thinking we would have; but also feeling hope, that it’s not too late to stop enabling these people, and start choosing kindness.
I wrote about these feelings. Join me in building a better future:
Well worth the read, the headline is a bit poor in the tiktok attention span age though.
Tldr: The are praising the historical person and their acheivements, while mourning the person they are now.
ew
As the article writes, matters are really gross.
Whatever happened to dhh?
I regret to inform you that, after a long struggle, he eventually lost his fight against the parasitic fungus that was taking over his brain,14 and died. The exact timeline is unclear, but we suspect he succumbed to his illness sometime in 2020.
A morbid side-effect of his condition is that his body is still alive, walking around, delivering keynote addresses at confs and screeds on social media. Yet he exists only as a macabre meat puppet, his sinews pulled taught, controlled entirely by the brain parasite he contracted from a WhatsApp group chat. This state of affairs is upsetting, and confusing, but it bears repeating: the man we knew and loved as dhh is gone.
I did not read the article, only the headline
Signed, umbrella
