RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/115547315643919873

I'm really happy someone said it. I have felt really excluded in this environment and I could never really put my finger on it. A decade ago, I contributed a number of patches for an open source database project under my real name. It was one of the only enjoyable experiences I ever had with open source, because the database was a niche project, designed for a very particular kind of dataset, and the author immediately thanked me for the patches. He was clearly overworked and grateful. This is a feeling I now work hard to reproduce in my little cloister, where we'll keep working until we have something ready to explain itself. It feels like a shame that it has to be that way, because the second you give something a face, you're expected to compete.

Monoculture is a death spiral. I want to create things that reflects specific virtues and use cases I care about. I take a really dim view of people telling me to do something marketable. I want it to satisfy specific criteria. It's driven by me, not a market.