Jason Antic

I fear that those non-sharing-shaming spells do not work on me. And your prediction has already kind of failed given that I got commissioned for work in the past based on previous iterations of this project.

I've given up trying to change people's minds on this, so this certainly wasn't a shame-to-change attempt. (I'm not into the whole "shame people for X" anyway.) It's just a recognition of a truth that took me a long time to learn. And to appreciate.

For the way I work there is no reward for sharing my code - I am neither a teacher, not a developer, nor a startup who do benefit from the additional attention a popular repository gives them. My "USP" is that I make things that at least for a short while not many others can do.

And when you die, your work will die with you. Is that really what you want? What do you want out of life? I think about that a lot. Is it really just a rat race until the end? There must be more.

Not sure if you noticed that I make art and my hope is that some of that will still be around when I am gone.

I noticed. I like it a lot. Your code is art too, though, even if you don't seem to think so. I appreciated the way your covid simulator worked.

The code is part of my art. If there was a code of honor in art where plagiarists and copycats are called out, - like for example in stand-up comedy - I would share more. But since even curators and critics in this field get constantly fooled by charlatans I choose obscurity.

Sure, that's fair. But ask yourself: why do you care so much about plagiarists and copycats? They're irrelevant. Everyone knows you made the work first, just like everyone knows @citnaj made deoldify.