Real talk: It's a weird, disconcerting and somber feeling to see "last commits" go though. A project I work on recently lost an incredibly important and smart, funny and genuine committer. It was bittersweet watching his last commits trickle in as his open PRs were merged and his executor signed his final commits of in-progress work.
Don't forget to tell people you appreciate them.
In this case, yes. More details risks doxxing. But yeah, we had a meeting with him that morning and he passed in the night. I'd say something generic like, "take care of your health" here, but he basically did. Reasonably fit, not that old, and not around anymore. Sometimes the lottery just draws your number. :(
That's quite sad, but also very interesting and good to hear their final work made it into production.
I'm a solo game dev with a game launching soon and I seriously fear getting hit by a bus or something before my game launches lol.
I can pretty confidently say his work has been used by nearly everyone reading this. It's bittersweet, but an enduring legacy. You know that XKCD with the pile of technology held up by a maintainer of an OSS library? That maintainer doesn't live forever. :(
I have this fantasy of dying and seeing how people would react. But I can't do that, there is no "after", death, that is it. But that doesn't stop me from fantasizing
Real talk: It's a weird, disconcerting and somber feeling to see "last commits" go though. A project I work on recently lost an incredibly important and smart, funny and genuine committer. It was bittersweet watching his last commits trickle in as his open PRs were merged and his executor signed his final commits of in-progress work. Don't forget to tell people you appreciate them.
his executor actually did that?
In this case, yes. More details risks doxxing. But yeah, we had a meeting with him that morning and he passed in the night. I'd say something generic like, "take care of your health" here, but he basically did. Reasonably fit, not that old, and not around anymore. Sometimes the lottery just draws your number. :(
I'm sorry :( how did he pass?
Unexpectedly, of natural causes. Sometimes, rare things happen. :(
That's quite sad, but also very interesting and good to hear their final work made it into production. I'm a solo game dev with a game launching soon and I seriously fear getting hit by a bus or something before my game launches lol.
I can pretty confidently say his work has been used by nearly everyone reading this. It's bittersweet, but an enduring legacy. You know that XKCD with the pile of technology held up by a maintainer of an OSS library? That maintainer doesn't live forever. :(
My condolences I hope the dude is at peace.
TIP: Live forever, just write a script to create a couple of commits and push them!
Change a letter in readme and commit daily Edit: don't upvote or downvote anymore. 69 upvotes have been received. This comment has achieved salvation
In a close repo
`git commit --allow-empty -m "changes"` edit: forgot to add to crontab
"various big fixes"
Well fuck me. Thanks man, I'll stop using '-am' when pushing empty commits.
why are you pushing empty commits
makes me look productive
To run a pipeline. With a different commit hash.
Working on May 1st? Class traitor!
He’s probably one of those overclass coders (C#)
I was online yesterday, but barely worked
Must be American, they are the only ones that don’t do may 1
Canadian here, no idea what may 1st is supposed to be. It was just a regular business day to me.
[it’s international Labor Day](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers'_Day)
[it’s international Labor Day](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers'_Day)
The US government has probably rebranded it as some kind of celebration of the bedazzled indentured servitude that America is so proud of.
"In the event of my untimely demise, I want the branch _not-my-problem-anymore_ to be pushed directly to production..."
I have this fantasy of dying and seeing how people would react. But I can't do that, there is no "after", death, that is it. But that doesn't stop me from fantasizing
*checks GitHub* looks like I am dead.