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I never met him IRL, but you form a one way relationship with people you look up to online and Mikeal is one of the people for me. May he rest easy.
What a creative soul. Thank you Mikeal.
I remember him being a well-known person in the early days of Node.js around 2011/2012, being on the NodeUp podcast and active on Twitter back then. I'm sorry to hear of his passing.
Sad in a way on the same day this is posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44241549 (which for me is super inspiring). Mikeal would've done so much with the stronger and stronger AI out there (though perhaps questioning it of course in his own way). His cancer diaries was just one example of how he couldn't help always being a leader in what he did.
Everyone that sends an HTTP request in Node uses Mikeal’s work: firstly he wrote the first NPM module to handle HTTP requests and then he worked tirelessly to ensure that module was never needed and high-level excellent HTTP support was built into node JS itself.
Mikeal also worked on freeing node.js from Joyent via the iojs fork, and ran node events way before it was commercially viable to do so.
When Node was just getting big I met Mikael for the first time at some Node event or another. It’s hard to overstate or forget how welcoming he was, always excited to see folks, and the one getting the energy of the room going. The more time I spent with Mikael the more I saw him doing all the small things that needed doing for a community, or an event. Even just hanging out Mikael was always so considerate and tried…
He loved and did so much for his family, and for the JS community as well.
I am so sad and honestly, angry that he was taken from us so young. He would have done so much more. But also, he certainly did enough. I hope he felt good in the end about how he spent his time.
Rest in peace, Mikeal.