“nowadays when I look at an open-source project, I run it through slopscan to get a first impression of whether or not a project is worth looking into. Not because the code is bad, but how the code is written. The culture shaped by the community that builds the software.”

I lucked in to realizing something early on about moldy half-baked tarballs (or repo, these days) that can maybe sorta compile if you throw sed and grep and chewing gum and wire hangers at them: they’re optional. They’re an opportunity we may use, not something we’re forced to use. If this had been the world of Windows 95 that I was coming from, we wouldn’t even see these half-finished work-in-progress packages, they’d be totally hidden from us, kept from us in some inaccessible campanile cupboard.