Comment by joelreymont

joelreymont Nov 27, 2025 parent

That one was poorly documented and may have been related to an issue in my code.

I would offer this one instead.

https://github.com/joelreymont/zig/pull/1

noname120 Nov 27, 2025

Can you stop wasting everyone’s time?

Levitating Nov 27, 2025

Just reading his blogposts, gross. He not only thinks he is actively contributing, he thinks he deserves credit.

greazy Nov 27, 2025

FYI you're replying to the Joel the person being discussed. On HN he uses the username wagerlab

joelreymont OP Nov 27, 2025

Yep, that's me!

I will look into renaming myself, although don't think HN allows this.

tjalfi Nov 27, 2025

You might try emailing them, they've renamed other accounts before.

debugnik Nov 27, 2025

Even after the public call-outs you keep dropping blatant ads for your blog and AI in general in your PRs; there's no other word for them than ads. This is why I blocked you on the OCaml forum already.

When I was a kid, every year I'd get so obsessed about Christmas toys that the hype would fill my thoughts to the point I'd feel dizzy and throw up. I genuinely think you're going through the adult version of that: your guts might be ok but your mind is so filled with hype that you're losing self-awareness.

rixed Nov 27, 2025 (dead)

debugnik Nov 27, 2025

I assume he's well meaning because I've been seeing his posts for a few months already in the OCaml forums before this pattern of his started, but he's suddenly acting irrational and doubling down. There's no way I can put that nicely, plus he's since deleted his strongest reactions so you can't grasp it fully either.

This is not my first interaction with him outside HN, I already talked to him privately when this was starting to unfold in the OCaml community. Then I gave up, flagged his ads for the mods and blocked him for a few months, but I've kept encountering his drama on github and HN.

rixed Nov 27, 2025

I've been following as well. As much as i disagree with it, I appreciate that he has the audacity to propose this "all in" attitude. I'm a bit worried by the amount of anger that border doxing at times. I'd like this community to behave better.

debugnik Nov 27, 2025

I don't think doxing means what you think it means but whatever. I also expected more of him than to spam ads, waste the time of maintainers and mods on multiple communities, and reply passive-aggressively to anyone asking him to tone it down.

rixed Nov 30, 2025

To me this is borderline doxing (didn't check on /g/, maybe that was actual doxing):

> there was a thread on /g/ about this guy the other day, anons digged out much of its past

sundarurfriend Nov 27, 2025

Good faith includes the ability to respect and listen to the other person (or in this case, multiple other people who have been working on these projects for years). The attitude he demonstrates has been and remains (this is a quote from him elsewhere on this thread):

> existing open source projects are not ready for this and likely won't ever be.

i.e. he is enlightened and these projects are just not seeing The Way™.

joelreymont OP Nov 27, 2025 (dead)

zipy124 Nov 27, 2025

Good faith doesn't mean you can waste people's time. It's the reason why patents for perpetual motion machines are banned in most countries. The inventors often genuinely believe they've done it and want to help people, and yet it just wastes people's time having to review them.

In either case I'd argue it is no longer good faith if asked to stop and you continue and do not learn from your peers.

rs186 Nov 27, 2025

I wonder why the maintainers haven't banned this dude yet.

Eldt Nov 27, 2025

Stop the catfishes, please

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