Fuck. What a sad day. So young and talented. Truly heartbreaking
Mikeal Rogers has died
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#42Very sad. I had met Mikeal a few times in the nearly Node community hackathons and meetups. He had been in my orbit of Node.js and Oakland communities for decades but we were never close. Always felt like ships in the night. I had been following his cancer diaries hoping for the best. There truly was a magic to that early Node.js hacker house days and Mikeal was a huge driving force for that.
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#43I 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 i…
just learning about pouchdb now. why did it not take off you think?
In addition to the sync issues mentioned, personally I think overcoming the browsers was the real issues. Nobody wanted to support this, the security would have been a contrived nightmare.
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#44He was well-known online for the request module — a name every developer seemed to know. I first met him in person at playnode.io 2012 in Korea. Despite the language barrier, he patiently listened to my broken English and took the time to answer with kindness and sincerity. That was my first impression of him — and it stayed with me. He taught not just through code, but through the way he treated others. Rest in peac…
That trip is the origin of many of my happiest memories. It was amazing to meet you all, and to share that adventure with him. The playnode.io team and the Korean JavaScript community treated us with such incredible warmth and kindness, we talked often over the years about what a wonderful experience that was.
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#45I might feel bad if I only knew who he was and, so far, I haven't been able to find that out and no one has mentioned it here.
Mikeal Rogers was a prolific Node.js developer and community leader. He created the popular "request" library, ran the initial NodeConf events, helped design the npm registry, and provided a strong leadership that helped get Node.js into a foundation structure with open governance.
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#46Mikeal was the CTO of my 2nd startup, Getable. Incredible human being, foodie, technologist, intelligence and overall caring person. He shared the diagnosis several months back and everything happened so quickly. Thoughts and prayers to Anna (his wife), children and family.
When we worked together, Anna and Mikeal were not yet parents and we were all a lot younger. He is a humble, beautiful human being. I know his spirit will live on with his children. I just don’t know what to say other than sending my love to his family and #CancerSucks
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#47Mikeal was simply an amazing human being. I'm writing this wearing my NodeConf shirt right now—one of the best times I've ever had in any community. Being friends with Mikeal was incredible because you could always pick up where you left off, no matter how much time had passed. During our time working together on ProtocolLabs projects, we talked almost daily about work, open source, ideas, philosophy, spirituality, and of course, hip hop.
He possessed a unique and brilliant intellect paired with a compassionate and generous spirit. His interpretation of Buddhist sutras and other sacred writings through an engineer's lens was insightful and inspiring—the foundation for many great conversations. I had just moved back to the Bay Area around the time of his diagnosis and was looking forward to reconnecting in person. Things happened so fast. Sending love to his family.
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#48Devastating… I discovered Mikeal like most people did, from curiosity about npm packages in a project.
He wrote a lot of opensource projects and was a refreshingly nice and patient person to interact with on GitHub. Condolences to his friends and family, he’ll be missed in the FOSS world
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
His own events were rad. I remember O’Reilly running some giant corporate event (maybe called JSfest) and Mikeal rented out the Marines Memorial Theatre in San Francisco for a couple of days beforehand and had way kore interesting and relevant talks by nearly every major person in the JavaScript ecosystem.
Yes! He organized a barebones conference out of the Meetup office in New York. The premise was that all attendees would do a 10 minute talk on any subject (I think it was called 10conf?). Mikeal spoke about his pour-over coffee setup while using it to make coffee for everyone. I really enjoyed time I spent with him and appreciated his kindness and leadership in the community. My thoughts are with his family and loved…
Memory unlocked! I remember his coffee obsession and him going to extra effort to make sure that his events actually had real coffee rather than the usual conference garbage that was popular at the time.
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#50I remember one tweet from Mikeal several years ago when he said that OSS have opened up so many doors and given so many opportunities for him and I will remember him with that, because he opened the door for me too, first by making me a collaborator in request (the Node.js module) and then by connecting me with the CEO of the company that I work for. And note that we never knew each other in person, he did it for someone who is literally on the other side of the world, I think that speaks a lot.
I'm happy that so many people remember him, because this is what a community is all about, and he was very much invested into creating one.