This library is/was infamous for printing a message such as “the author of this library is looking for a job” to the npm log. Predictably, he got pilloried for it.
How was the reaction not to open a Patreon/Liberapay so the guy didn’t need a job? I don’t know but this seemed to have been a pretty important thing? Downloaded 26M times, if 10% of downloaders gave $1 then that would have been $2.6M!
This library is/was infamous for printing a message such as “the author of this library is looking for a job” to the npm log. Predictably, he got pilloried for it.
How was the reaction not to open a Patreon/Liberapay so the guy didn’t need a job? I don’t know but this seemed to have been a pretty important thing? Downloaded 26M times, if 10% of downloaders gave $1 then that would have been $2.6M!
The problem isn’t that someone does that, but that they feel the need to do it.