... I'm sure someone will let me know, probably by tying a nice note to a nice red brick and hurling it through my window. You should see the email I get sometimes.
I think you can estimate the maturity of a culture by how easy it is to commit heresy. There is simply no excuse for how people reacted to his writing. It reflects poorly on all of us.
Maybe Alan Kay is right that we (the IT industry) are a pop culture, complete with our own sort of Kanye West.
Yeah, it pains me to even read this kind of thing, because it makes me remember the feeling of reading one of his new articles (which was, maybe even _irrationally_ excited). I don't feel that way about any other blogger, past or present.
It must be the combination of interesting and unique ideas with a really entertaining writing style that got me. Maybe it even had something to do with the years he was writing (I was in high-school & college at the time).
I don't really think Yegge is going to get back into it (and I don't blame him), I just hope to find someone else with similar qualities.
I felt mostly the same, and also can't explain. I also felt like he was a window into the kind of companies I wish I could have worked in (in their "golden years").
The long form writing combined with an entertaining style and real experience to back up his stories made his stuff pretty unique in my opinion. Certainly among the best articles I have read on the net.
I think it was in a Stackoverflow podcast where he said that the hateful feedback he got was the main reason he stopped writing. It sad that we as a community did not get more of that content because of anonymous haters on the internet.
(Pretty similar to Joel Spolsky actually. Both in quality of content and hateful feedback in return.)
