TJ (https://github.com/tj) used to be a significant JavaScript contributor and could easily be labeled as the "rockstar" of the time. In 2014 he switched from Node to Go (https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3e52b) and I haven't heard of him ever since. Is it just me, or is there a correlation?
<a href="https://www.quora.com/Has-TJ-Holowaychuk-been-as-prolific-in-the-Golang-community-as-he-was-in-the-Node-js-community" rel="nofollow">https://www.quora.com/Has-TJ-Holowaychuk-been-as-prolific-in...</a><p>"my new goal is to live a better life. In the end open-source doesn’t pay the bills so it’s best to focus on other things if you can, or if you just enjoy the project then that’s cool."
I’m a customer of his uptime service (<a href="https://apex.sh/ping/" rel="nofollow">https://apex.sh/ping/</a>), and following up framework (<a href="https://up.docs.apex.sh/" rel="nofollow">https://up.docs.apex.sh/</a>) with interest, but haven’t used it yet. Perhaps he is more focused on career and family, and less on open source? If so, good for him.
Isn't he working on apex up? <a href="https://github.com/apex/up" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/apex/up</a>
He's been posted to HN a bunch of times since 2015-01-01.<p><a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?query=holowaychuk&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=custom&type=story&dateStart=1420070400&dateEnd=1548979200" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?query=holowaychuk&sort=byDate&prefix...</a><p>Seems to be working on a startup which might explain the lack of noise.
There was a whole conspiracy theory that he was a collective rather than an individual.<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-TJ-Holowaychuk-is-real-I-dont-think-someone-can-be-as-productive-as-he-is?ch=10&share=73bce5cf&srid=hIhw" rel="nofollow">https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-TJ-Holowaychuk-is-real-I-...</a>
Genuinely inspirational that, looks like he’s now living in London with a hot Russian girlfriend working with sane, stable tools on small, developer focused products, <i>and</i> his homepage is still photography vs a bunch of shite little blog posts.<p>Difference between living to code and coding to live kids, take note.