A few weeks back, I was browsing Google Maps and noticed the word “DEMO” written in faint green letters in rural South Sudan. A journalist came across this tweet and wrote about it for bbc.com.
🤔 https://t.co/TOJvHsxdD9 pic.twitter.com/UtHG6Jpgxz
— Tim Hopper (@tdhopper) May 28, 2019
Way back in 2015, I tweeted “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Write a program to fish for him and you maintain it for a lifetime.” Today, that tweet appeared in a nature.com article about the challenges of releasing open source software.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
— Tim Hopper (@tdhopper) November 3, 2015
Write a program to fish for him and you maintain it for a lifetime.