Aaron Swartz introducing Infogami (2006)

Ugh. I always get a little depressed when anything about Aaron pops up on this site.

It's a clear constant reminder just how much the world lost when he was driven to suicide. He was the programming equivalent of Nicola Tesla.

I think I have a mild and slightly morbid obsession with Swartz. It just seemed like after he died, a lot of the web went downhill. His death is a marker for the death of a lot of dreams about what the web meant, and about people exercising autonomy on the internet.

Aaron makes an appearance in the 2005 documentary "Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks", which was a documentary about interns building a product at at FogBugz (by Joel Spolsky, now known for Trello and Stack Overflow). I watched it again recently after many years and was sad to see Aaron appear with his unbridled optimism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NRL7YsXjSg

The process of building Infogami in public is well described on the blog's homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20060406193425/http://infogami.c...

> 53 hours since our last new feature. There's a new one almost every day.

That's a cool thing to put on your website to show how often it's updated, at least as a small company.

Is this the source code of Infogami, https://github.com/infogami/infogami?

Remember Aaron Swartz!

Aww I really miss Aaron. I used to be angry but now I'm just sad.