I like the “selfish gene” approach to writing open source code—that is, to aim at not only creating a useful product, but getting your coding patterns reused and imitated widely in other projects.
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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