[tjholowaychuk]

Haha yup, I wont lie I have been an asshole at times, mostly because you sort of have to defend yourself when you're surrounded by people who attack your work, but after a while I realized it wasn't worth it so I just sort of detached (no longer on IRC, the mailing list etc). Defending your work isn't worth becoming rude yourself. Communities always form cliques that's just how it is.

The core node community was very unreceptive to change since the very beginning, to be honest Ryan and Isaac were some of the few humble people in the bunch. I've always been a "threat" to "the node way" of doing things, whatever that means. The elitism gets a little old.