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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

Well, now I kind of want you to.

Now that sounds like a great idea.