@kennethreitz
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Node's community is interesting — it's very greenfield. They have had the opportunity to built everything from the ground up, together, and take a fresh approach to all problems other languages have faced. Unfortunately, that led to a lot of wild-west style ground-staking, and the tremendously large number of silly dependencies (like mkdir_p ) floating around. They also had to figure out the "we need a foundation to own/protect the IP of the platform", something that Python's had for a very long time withe the PSF. Generally, I have little respect for most Node developers. There are a lot of great ones out there, and it's the right tool for a lot of jobs. However, most Node developers generally seem to be very new programmers that really have no idea what they're doing, and often have a big chip on their shoulder to go along with it. Hope that wasn't too negative!
I love emulsions. I don't use them often, as they are incredibly inconvenient, but I do shoot them from time to time, and develop b/w myself at home. To me, it's very magic, and far more impressive to me than any digital camera/photo will ever be. I just cannot believe that we can capture perfect snapshots of light and burn them onto film using only chemicals. That absolutely blows my mind. :) Vinyl used to be required, now it's a luxury, because it's optional. Same with film.
I didn't like it, and it seemed overhyped. I've used Docker for Mac now, as well as the Heroku Docker beta registry. This makes the experience of using Docker much pleasant. So much so, that I think I like it — for certain things. I do still think it's generally overhyped though. Not really sure why your average so developer is excited about it. But, a useful tool, certainly.
GitHub used to have comments enabled on their blog. I used to be a very active GitHub community member. One day, they posted that emojis were now supported, everywhere. Excited, to be the first comment, I entered the first thing I could think of: ✨🍰✨
It's very fun to do exactly what you said. But, I think the main fun part for me is making something beautiful . Like, really putting the absurd amount of polish on every aspect of something (from API consideration, to documentation, to file layout, to fun unnecessary humor in comments) is immensely rewarding for me. I strive, in projects like that, to just set the bar for quality in all aspects. The only project that actively still does that is Requests, really. I think it did a good job. Always room for improvement though!