@zachleat Was there a time before developer celebrities?

@mia only in the time before developers

this poll toot will probably self destruct at some point

*runs away*

@zachleat oh, well the rise of developers has clearly made software worse, so

@mia hahaha

@zachleat

I'm struggling to articulate this point so bear with me... I think it's good in the sense that it leads people to think about the underlying philosophy of a product, rather than jumping onto a tool bandwagon and then getting mad it's not all things to all people. Like if I know something about Zach Leatherman and how he thinks about software, I know better whether Eleventy would be a good fit for me and my use case.

@zachleat case in point: math is hard.

@zachleat

On the other hand, I've seen a *lot* of really good products collapse because being good at managing celebrity status is a very different skill than managing software, and a lot of people just can't do it. (I certainly could never!)

@krusynth the poll is multiple choice for no good reason other than to make the poll invalid for statistical usefulness

@webbureaucrat it’s a very fair point!

@zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com was there a rise in developer celebrities? Perhaps I'm just not aware.

I think software devs have been desperately trying to find somebody to emulate ever since the early days. It's all part of our massively shared imposter syndrome that all devs have to some degree

It just gets icky when you call it thought leadership.