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Prince of Persia on day, developer at night. Author of @CodeceptJS and @Codeception testing frameworks. Currently working on @testomatio to make tests visible!

Feb 14, 2023, 10 tweets

If Dostoevsky lived today that would be his best novel:



This a story of #russian #opensource maintainer with the complex of messiah and hatred towards the world That illustrates that ๐š–ฬถ๐š’ฬถ๐šœฬถ๐šŽฬถ๐š›ฬถ๐šŠฬถ๐š‹ฬถ๐š•ฬถ๐šŽฬถ mysterious Russian soul:github.com/zloirock/core-โ€ฆ

2/9 As an #opensource developer I feel his pain, but as a person, I can't understand the logic of that person.

All his life problems are direct consequences of his actions but instead of taking responsibility for them, he blames the world and greedy corporations.

3/9 His first mistake: he decided to return to Russia. Living there was his own choice. But Russia strikes back. What a surprise!

4/9 In his post (which replaced Readme of core-js) he begs for money while writing about how poor he is he wants a "new iPhone for his wife", so he talks about being entitled to luxury
Also, he mentioned he has 2.5$K on donations and 10K$ on previous contracts

5/9 Remember the Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment. That's the same character. While thinking of his own greatness he suffers from a lack of money. Denis could drop core-js altogether or maintain it part time but then he will lose his mission and his vibe as a world Savior

6/9 I would not have written that thread if he had not mentioned the war in his post.

(btw, why?)

He said that #opensource is out of politics while making a political statement in the next line. It's double thinking which was also shown in The Idiot novel

7/9 Sure, a person like him would think that he is the most victim in the world, so he has no empathy to war victims The difference here: war victims didn't chose their destiny but Denis did.

War victims were killed, lost their homes, or lose their beloved ones but Denis didn't

8/9 Today over 300 000 such characters are at the war in Ukraine

๐Ÿ‘ฟThey are 'out of politics' but have their political opinion of two evils
๐Ÿ‘ฟThey blame the West for their miserable lives
๐Ÿ‘ฟThey don't take responsibility for their actions

9/9 Maybe they are not evil by themselves. Maybe not the worst people. Who knows? They had their families but once they decided to go to kill others

Mix of messianism, victimization, infantilism turned them into barbarian horde terrorizing my country

Russian society is rotten

But that's not the end!

The sequel of the ovel is here:

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