The format makes the page difficult to read and the page feels annoyingly machine-generated (apologies if it is not), but the point is solid. Fortunately, there is a link at the beginning to read the whole thing in one go.
Loadsharers was esr’s attempt to address the problem from the 2019/2020 time period. Interestingly, his list of recommended folks to support includes Paul Eggert (mentioned in this page). Sadly, Dave Täht’s list is offline following his death, but it is archived.
I found this post quite evocative. It felt like a digital museum exhibition, and honestly I'd like to see it translated from this format into the physical world to present this data to people who don't usually think about these things. It would be great as an exhibition at the CCC for example, or maybe in some Museum of Technology/Computing.
It felt like walking in an abandoned building with the name and accomplishment of a few good-willed people who held important artifacts of tech; and how little recognition they got.
I felt that this was well pitched towards non-experts, and your average crustacean here might find it too simplistic. For me, the scroll worked well, and it helped the story along. Examples of packages from these maintainers likely on my system were helpful, too.
marginalia | 12 hours ago
Jesus this was hard to read, even on the single page mode.
dvogel | 5 hours ago
100% Pages like this make me miss the constraints of plain text mailing lists and usenet.
simonw | 57 minutes ago
Scrollytelling really needs to go out of fashion.
rau | 11 hours ago
The format makes the page difficult to read and the page feels annoyingly machine-generated (apologies if it is not), but the point is solid. Fortunately, there is a link at the beginning to read the whole thing in one go.
Loadsharers was esr’s attempt to address the problem from the 2019/2020 time period. Interestingly, his list of recommended folks to support includes Paul Eggert (mentioned in this page). Sadly, Dave Täht’s list is offline following his death, but it is archived.
scruss | 7 hours ago
esr's list also included himself, unsurprisingly.
jbauer | 9 hours ago
I found this post quite evocative. It felt like a digital museum exhibition, and honestly I'd like to see it translated from this format into the physical world to present this data to people who don't usually think about these things. It would be great as an exhibition at the CCC for example, or maybe in some Museum of Technology/Computing.
nobe4 | 6 hours ago
I really liked it, despite how sad it made me.
It felt like walking in an abandoned building with the name and accomplishment of a few good-willed people who held important artifacts of tech; and how little recognition they got.
lpil | 5 hours ago
About 1/4 the way through this stopped rendering correctly for me and all I could then see was a large amount of empty black space.
sigmonsez | 7 hours ago
what was the point? I had to skim, couldn't even handle reading the single page mode.
hoistbypetard | 5 hours ago
Concrete examples of xkcd 2347, mostly.
scruss | 3 hours ago
I felt that this was well pitched towards non-experts, and your average crustacean here might find it too simplistic. For me, the scroll worked well, and it helped the story along. Examples of packages from these maintainers likely on my system were helpful, too.
matt-y | 2 hours ago
Unrelated to the article itself but I do wish websites would better respect the
prefers-reduced-motionCSS media feature.