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As far as I understand, he quit his public life when someone hunted down and published his real name and address. He removed his website and github, which contained his various writings, some of which had names with "tutorial" or "guide" in them but all of which were at least 80% works of literature and at most 20% works of technical documentation. Not sure I would call it "ragequitting".

Virtually all his works were archived by fans and can be read for example here: https://viewsourcecode.org/why/

A few years ago he published a sort of absurdist goodbye (as a live-updating printer spool) which Steve Klabnik collected into a 95-page PDF here: https://github.com/steveklabnik/CLOSURE

His blog contained many small snippets of code that were definitely meant to be consumed as poetry, they are easy to spot because of all the colors and shapes and sometimes animations:

https://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/

But my own experience of learning from him how to experience code as poetry mostly involved around using Camping in production for some small side projects and needing to explore some bits of its code because of practical reasons:

https://github.com/camping/camping

parent SonOfLilit 6 years ago

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