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Comment by jimmytucson | Hacker News Reader

Can we all agree that it's a little weird to pause mid-article to fawn upon one's own code?

I love Kenneth Reitz and admire his skill but "come on, man."

No, we can't all agree that anything about that post was "weird". I didn't even see any "fawning". Just someone who's enthusiastic about his code. It's ok to love something you made and let people you think it's great. "Fawning" doesn't even mean what you think it means.

Yeah, it's not like I want to tattoo the source code all over my body or anything.

Well, now I kind of want you to.

Haha, on the other hand, one of the typical interview questions is 'mention something you built that you are proud of'. A developer's satisfaction with his own craftsmanship is, to me, a must.

So you can't just produce good, solid output without congratulating yourself in public? Interesting.

No, what I meant is that if someone is proud of their code and aren't afraid to share it with the world you should know probably lighten the hell up and let them be.

I wasn't trying to be mean, I just chuckled when you said, "Beautiful."

I'm grateful for the love and care you've put into libraries like 'requests'. When I've been toiling away at a program for hours and it winds up resembling something like spaghetti mixed with beer shits, I find that if I stop and study some of your code, I am instantly a better programmer.

Oh, I was just poking fun at the guy that responded. He has a testimonial on the requests homepage:

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/v1.0.0/

> I’m going to get @kennethreitz’s Python requests module tattooed on my body, somehow. The whole thing. — Matt DeBoard

Now that sounds like a great idea.

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