Working in Public

This was a real disappointment after Eghbal’s excellent ‘roads and bridges’ report. the author seems to have bent right in the direction of macho developer culture that overvalues engineering wizardry and underinvests in maintenance and community. Rather than seek to learn how to sustain investment in maintenance and community, Working in Public turns against its own namesake value and instead calls for acceleration of the heroic individualism that has left the internet a wretched husk of what we imagined it would be.