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Re:Ask HN: What Happened to TJ Holowaychuk? by evbogue on Saturday September 16, 2023 @01:02AM (#37532183)
I never believed that rumor. Coders can go through hyper productive phases where they are making something that never existed before -- such as server side routers in JavaScript.

We forget that there was a time when JavaScript was just for manipulating the DOM.

Hope he's well and getting a good night's rest tonight. I know I should, but here I am typing into hacker news.

Re:Ask HN: What Happened to TJ Holowaychuk? by hinkley on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:57AM (#37532883)
TJ was mostly porting modules from ruby. When you have a feature set and an architecture that’s proven you can go very fast on a project. Mocha is substantially rspec.