32 replies

1. Zach Leatherman 2 min later

   I didn’t use en-dash here and I’m ashamed of it

   1. Christopher Kirk-Nielsen 2 hr later

      @zachleat I appreciate that you thought about it, even after the fact. Not everybody does!

      1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

         @chriskirknielsen this ain’t my first typographic rodeo.

         I will eat a moderately yummy cookie as penance (because it is only moderately yummy)

   2. Frank // Mottokrosh 23 hr later

      @zachleat ~~Pedantry~~ correct punctuation FTW!

2. AliveDevil 14 min later

   @zachleat
   Employer started an OSS project around 2004, and still developing on it. I’ve been with them for 8 years now. What does that count towards?

   1. Zach Leatherman 17 min later

      @AliveDevil I’d count from the origin date of the project (not when you started maintaining it) — fwiw

3. Patrick Grey 38 min later

   @zachleat I have questions. If you gradually replace and update parts of the software project over the years until all parts are replaced... is it still the same project? Is it a Trigger's broom / Ship of Theseus project? The broom reference in case not clear (dated humour): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56yN2zHtofM

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @patrick haha, 17 heads and 14 handles — truly a stable and low-maintenance broom

4. Snugug 40 min later

   @zachleat I think that goes to Breakpoint, which to my amazement still clocks something like 40k downloads per week

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @snugug nice!

5. Jan Lehnardt 1 hr later

   @zachleat CouchDB since October 2007 ✌️

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @janl hell yeah

6. Daphne Preston-Kendal 1 hr later

   @zachleat @janl Does maintaining a specification count? If so, I can beat everyone: Scheme report, 1975

   1. Jan Lehnardt 1 hr later

      @dpk @zachleat *tips hat*

   2. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @dpk @janl hell yeah it does

7. Tane Piper ⁂ 1 hr later

   @zachleat the team I'm leading now, I've been on longer than most jobs I've had - and we've still got a 3-year plan.

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @tanepiper it’s good to have a plan

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9. Matthew Vernon 2 days later

   @zachleat can anyone beat https://packages.debian.org/trixie/bible-kjv ? Initial release 1989-09-05

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 days later

      @demoographics do you maintain that package?

      edit: ah, I see your name there. huh.

      1. Matthew Vernon 2 days later

         @zachleat yeah, and I've been effectively upstream for some years now too.

         1. Zach Leatherman 2 days later

            @demoographics just realized I didn’t answer your question 😅 someone weighed in with a spec from 1975!

            https://chaos.social/@dpk/114264050566825337

            1. Matthew Vernon 2 days later

               @zachleat Impressive!

10. Zach Leatherman 2 days later

    I would have *never* correctly predicted the results of this poll.

    1. Keir 2 days later

       @zachleat kinda surprising but also nice to see

       1. Zach Leatherman 2 days later

          @keir yeah! I think this place has a very unique and special demographic

    2. Torsten Curdt 2 days later

       @zachleat

       "non-personal" has quite some ambiguity though.

       I have open source projects that got created in a professional setting - but I kept maintaining them afterwards.

       Does that count as personal or non-personal?

       And is that good or bad?

       I am still on the fence.

       1. Zach Leatherman 2 days later

          @tcurdt I suppose I intended it to be a software project that was consumed by a wider audience, but that’s fair!

          1. Torsten Curdt 2 days later

             @zachleat

             OK - voted accordingly :)

11. Rasmus Fløe 2 days later

    @zachleat
    I have a 10-ish yr old npm package that seems to have a life of it’s own.
    Recently I noticed it trippled in weekly dl’s.

    Seems to be caused by a new dependent called eleventy(?) 🤔

    The package is https://www.npmjs.com/package/posthtml-match-helper

    1. Zach Leatherman 2 days later

       @phloe yay! I love that package!

       1. Rasmus Fløe 2 days later

          @zachleat Thanks for giving it a go 🤗