[LVB]

There are recent updates on his Instagram: https://instagram.com/tjholowaychuk?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

[philipscott]

Thanks for sharing. I'm glad he's still posting.

Back in university I looked up to Feross, TJ and Matt Deslauriers. Fond memories of hacking together a Node.js project at a hackathon and launching something on a free Heroku dyno.

[setheron]

I remember the idea being that he wasn't a real person or a group of people. Fun times. Hope you're doing well TJ.

[evbogue]

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.

[philipscott]

Oh hey you're UW SE2011! I'm UW SE2021 o/

Small world

[tjholowaychuk]

I'm fine :) just taking a much needed break from software

[Alifatisk]

I was wondering about this too a couple of months back. Couldn't find any answer but seeing Apex.sh go away was sad.

Tj's choice of minimalistic design is still a huge inspiration for me, I still enjoy it to this day!

[mekster]

I naturally picked up to use Koa (Express successor), Pug (then Jade) and Stylus (feels more productive than SCSS) to boost productivity only to later find they originated from a same person TJ. Excellent mind.

And those are just part of his commitments.

[codegladiator]

Oh TJ was such an inspiration for me personally. All the rumors that it's a company actually made it even more fun. And then out of sight out of mind.

[activeno4436]

Think he moved on to other business, as posted. I always appreciated his work, too.

[colesantiago]

he moved on.

[philipscott]

:(

The idea of moving on from programming makes me sad. I suppose for some people it's a job, but to me giving up programming would be like giving up on writing poetry or playing music.

[Alifatisk]

Really?