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by gcp 3437 days ago
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellzey

Summary seems to be that his open source libraries are very widely used but he couldn't find a job in the Valley and became homeless.

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Being able to write good and cool code is nice. Though there is more then coding skills to be a nice person to work with.

Wild (personal opinion, though many corporate would see the same https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/125894?v=3&s=360), erratic(see post and his GitHub history) communication; You can be the fanciest rocket science software coder, but i'm not surprised he has an employment issue. (do not read this as, i think its correct he has an employment issue)

Had a good laugh reading his "skills" on his linkedin page.

I understand "Unicorn" and "Wizard", but what the hell is "Wheel Throwing"?

It's a pottery technique