TJ (https://github.com/tj) used to be a significant JavaScript contributor and could easily be labeled as the "rockstar" of the time. In 2014 he switched from Node to Go (https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3e52b) and I haven't heard of him ever since. Is it just me, or is there a correlation?
Do you remember TJ Holowaychuk?
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#2Honestly, I would pay to see video-screen-share of how guys like TJ code.
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#3He's been posted to HN a bunch of times since 2015-01-01.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=holowaychuk&sort=byDate&prefix...
Seems to be working on a startup which might explain the lack of noise.
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#4Genuinely inspirational that, looks like he’s now living in London with a hot Russian girlfriend working with sane, stable tools on small, developer focused products, and his homepage is still photography vs a bunch of shite little blog posts.
Difference between living to code and coding to live kids, take note.
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#5Isn't he working on apex up? https://github.com/apex/up
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#6I remember him from the Ruby community before that. Is there a correlation? probably not.
Life happens.
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#7https://www.quora.com/Has-TJ-Holowaychuk-been-as-prolific-in...
"my new goal is to live a better life. In the end open-source doesn’t pay the bills so it’s best to focus on other things if you can, or if you just enjoy the project then that’s cool."
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#8There was a whole conspiracy theory that he was a collective rather than an individual.
https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-TJ-Holowaychuk-is-real-I-...
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#9https://www.quora.com/Has-TJ-Holowaychuk-been-as-prolific-in... "my new goal is to live a better life. In the end open-source doesn’t pay the bills so it’s best to focus on other things if you can, or if you just enjoy the project then that’s cool."
This.
IMO he's still a "rockstar". It's just the Node and JS community that hypes everything disproportionally (they used to at least). The fact that he single-handedly built Apex (https://github.com/apex/apex) show that he's still prolific, and a programmer of note.
There's a similar story for Sindre Sorhus, who moved on from the JS community to Swift.
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#10https://www.quora.com/Has-TJ-Holowaychuk-been-as-prolific-in... "my new goal is to live a better life. In the end open-source doesn’t pay the bills so it’s best to focus on other things if you can, or if you just enjoy the project then that’s cool."
He is active in Twitter: https://twitter.com/tjholowaychuk