Pretty sure this is tongue-in-cheek, given the commenter (pretty high profile dev who creates a lot of cool stuff and does not shy away from using other open source code!) :)

that was super cool of you. Before letting people make the incorrect assumption, you hit em off at the pass. good people right there

Aw I thought it would be obvious :( Thanks for clarifying, of course nobody makes anything without being inspired from something that already existed, at least to a degree.

I guess it's hard to accurately convey sarcasm online, thanks again!

No worries, it was pretty obvious to me

Standing on the shoulders of giants

It was immediately obvious.