Comment by sktrdie | Hacker News Reader

Comment by sktrdie | Hacker News Reader

I should say that back in the day Nat was one that got me into coding. His nat.org blog (unfortunately cannot find it anymore on archive) was such an authentic piece of writing with his Xamarin and GNOME adventures along with posts and great photography on his general coding life working for OSS and other smallerish companies such as Novell. It was truly inspiration and made me want to live that life - building cool things with great people - but more importantly enjoying the whole human side around it where your colleagues become your friends and coding is just something that gets you closer to one another - similar to "playing guitar" or "cycling around town" or "going snowboarding together".

Of course his corporate persona is a bit different, but his work is still inspiring. Best of luck with your next adventure Nat! Cheers.

His blog seems to be excluded from archive.org, but I have found archived copies elsewhere. I don't want to link directly but you can find it with a little searching for his "Evolution for Windows" blog post from 2005.

I loved his blog too. I looked and found the post you’re referring to, but can’t find most of the interesting stuff that I recall seeing.

I loved reading his blog in the early 00s. Imagine that one day in 2006 I ran "wget --mirror" on nat.org/blog and I still keep the result in my archive folder. I really don't get it why he deleted it.

I loved his blog too!

I still have some printed cards where I copied his idea to print 'Your_Name would like to apologize most abjectly for his behavior on the evening of ___________'

I was at Eazel back in the day and worked with Nat and Miguel when they were at Ximian. It was obvious then that Nat would go on to do great things. What will be next for Nat? Something amazing I hope!

I also had a parasocial relationship with him through nat.org. There were some great posts about him and his friend buying a used British roadster that had a lot of problems. I still remember one of my favourite lines, "this car is a real dude magnet."

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