Readit Newsjalict commented on Your app subscription is now my weekend project rselbach.com/your-sub-is-... · Posted by u/robteix
This reminds me so much of Maggie Appleton blog post on "Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers" [1]
We have so many people who are so excellent and fast and developing nowadays that we can even afford the time to build things for our community, friends and even just for ourselves.
It has probably always been like this, but I am just personally observing a higher-degree of people doing and talking about it. Even just the small-web/neocities bobble points into this.
Original article has bit more data and graphs
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas...
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More recently:
- v1.0.0 was supposed to be the time his involvement is over [0]
- 6 months later [1]
> This is not a temporary break. It's not "see you after some rest", but a recognition that the current model is fundamentally incompatible with my life, my health, and my reality.
- But he pushed 3 releases since his last message [2]
It is like he is trying to quit somking.
I am not sure what the problem is exactly but it seems someone need to take over and honor the fantastic work he has done over the years.
- [0] https://unsigned.io/articles/2025_05_09_The_End_Is_Nigh_For_...
- [1] https://unsigned.io/articles/2025_12_28_Carrier_Switch.html
- [2] https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/releases
https://fosdem.org/2026/events/attachments/9NCWUR-reticulum_...