An open source project is so much more than the finished product; it’s an artifact of someone’s thinking process. The point is not just to make a new thing; it’s to help everyone write better code.
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This is why there’s always a tension in open source projects that put a lot of effort into branding and “magic” behavior. It’s fine for some tastes, but it promotes a consumerist relationship to third-party code. Exactly the opposite of the spirit of open source.
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Just realized this is the “finite and infinite games” pattern applied to open source.
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How delightfully meta to notice myself reusing other people’s thought patterns in my own thinking. Reminds me of one of my favorite essays, The Ecstasy of Influence, which makes its point by being largely plagiarized.https://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/the-ecstasy-of-influence/ …
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