Mikeal Rogers has died
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Mikeal Rogers has died
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#2Cancer sucks. I met Mikeal at a node.js conference probably ten years ago and we had a spirited argument. While I didn't agree with him, he galvanized my thinking about what needed to change, and we need more people like that in the world.
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#3I never met Mikeal, but was still touched second-hand by the lovely messages on the cancer-diaries repository he opened up[1].
[1]: https://github.com/mikeal/cancer-diaries/pulls?q=is%3Apr
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#4Sad to hear this but even happier now about the existence of the Node.js documentary[0]. Glad this happened and that some of his stories of Node’s early days are recorded.
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#5Sad to hear this but even happier now about the existence of the Node.js documentary[0]. Glad this happened and that some of his stories of Node’s early days are recorded. [0] https://youtu.be/LB8KwiiUGy0?t=705
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#6oh gosh, I have so many great memories of Mikeal due to the wonderful javascript community, and am really sad to hear he has passed.
I hope others were able to be delighted by spending time with him, as I was.
maybe someone else who gets the inside joke will built a naanument to him.
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#7Mikeal was extremely welcoming to me when I met him over a decade ago, It was either JSConf or NodeCamp, He was always super insightful and encouraging to my personal growth as an engineer and open source contributor. NodeJS wouldn't be what it is without him, especially the community around it in the early days. I got to work with him for a bit at protocol labs. This is a major loss to open source
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#8I had the pleasure of meeting Mikeal on a few occasions, but mainly I've benefited from his work over the years (initially via the JavaScript ecosystem, and later through the Protocol Labs community).
PouchDB was way ahead of its time, and I'm just now coming around to how crazy cool it was and is compared to most other tech in its space.
He made a great deal of positive impact on technical areas I care about. Rest in peace.
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#9Even when you know it's coming, it's hard to process. Met Mikeal at oscon in ... 2007 I think, where he was presenting windmill as a testing tool for js/ajax. We kept in touch for a few years, and he was kind enough to meet up with me during some travel time in California the following year. He took great joy in introducing me to some tapas place I can't remember now, but I do remember the excitement he had just... telling me about it. That low key passion (tech, food, anything else) is one of the things I still remember about the few times we met in person.
Reading about his cancer last year was difficult, not so much for him directly; he seemed to have made peace with it (that's the impression I got anyway). But it's a reminder of my own mortality, and I know I would not react or continue on the way he did. That's difficult to acknowledge.
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#10I got to hang with him a little in the early 2010s when I was doing JavaScript work and found him nice and personable. I'm so sorry for his early passing.