RIP Anthony Grimes (Raynes)
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Chas Emerick
Dec 7, 2016, 8:32:23 AM12/7/16
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As some may have already seen on Twitter or other channels, our friend
Anthony Grimes (Raynes in #clojure IRC and elsewhere, @StRaynes on
Twitter) has passed away.
The most immediate announcement of this came via Lance Bradley, one of
Anthony's closer friends from the Clojure community:
https://www.facebook.com/lancepantz/posts/10104155686547809?pnref=story
Anthony's family set up a fundraiser to help with his final expenses,
but people are going well beyond the target set there; in any case, the
family would certainly appreciate any help you can offer:
https://www.gofundme.com/32m55h4
If you don't know of Anthony, he was a constant inspiration and helping
hand in Clojure's earlier days, especially in #clojure IRC where he
tutored and encouraged people daily for years. He was also the creator
or a significant contributor to dozens of Clojure projects, some of
which I guarantee you still rely upon every day.
Anthony himself wrote about some of his history in the Clojure
community, and also happened to recount at length the most significant
memory I'll have of him, when we all helped to get a kind 16-year-old to
the first Clojure Conj in 2010:
http://blog.raynes.me/blog/2011/11/27/the-clojure-community-and-me/
I have other memories of and about Anthony that I'd like to share, but
not now, not yet. Of course, the family will be having a local service
for him in their time and way. ABecause so many people around the world
knew, worked with, and called Anthony a friend, I'm hoping we can all
have an online/remote memorial (maybe an any-comers Hangout or
something). That's just an idea at the moment, details TBD.
If you'd like to talk a bit about how Anthony influenced or inspired
you, please feel free to, here. Some people are also using the
#RIPRaynes hashtag, if that's your game.
Rest easy, dude.
love,
- Chas
Anthony Grimes (Raynes in #clojure IRC and elsewhere, @StRaynes on
Twitter) has passed away.
The most immediate announcement of this came via Lance Bradley, one of
Anthony's closer friends from the Clojure community:
https://www.facebook.com/lancepantz/posts/10104155686547809?pnref=story
Anthony's family set up a fundraiser to help with his final expenses,
but people are going well beyond the target set there; in any case, the
family would certainly appreciate any help you can offer:
https://www.gofundme.com/32m55h4
If you don't know of Anthony, he was a constant inspiration and helping
hand in Clojure's earlier days, especially in #clojure IRC where he
tutored and encouraged people daily for years. He was also the creator
or a significant contributor to dozens of Clojure projects, some of
which I guarantee you still rely upon every day.
Anthony himself wrote about some of his history in the Clojure
community, and also happened to recount at length the most significant
memory I'll have of him, when we all helped to get a kind 16-year-old to
the first Clojure Conj in 2010:
http://blog.raynes.me/blog/2011/11/27/the-clojure-community-and-me/
I have other memories of and about Anthony that I'd like to share, but
not now, not yet. Of course, the family will be having a local service
for him in their time and way. ABecause so many people around the world
knew, worked with, and called Anthony a friend, I'm hoping we can all
have an online/remote memorial (maybe an any-comers Hangout or
something). That's just an idea at the moment, details TBD.
If you'd like to talk a bit about how Anthony influenced or inspired
you, please feel free to, here. Some people are also using the
#RIPRaynes hashtag, if that's your game.
Rest easy, dude.
love,
- Chas
Alan Moore
Dec 7, 2016, 11:09:13 AM12/7/16
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Oh no... so sad and tragic. I remember everyone pitching in to "get him to the conj"... and all his great Clojure contributions. I always admired his enthusiasm and spirit.
My condolences to his close friends and family. While I never met him in person his presence was felt in this forum and in many others. He will be sorely missed.
#RipRaynes
Alex Miller
Dec 7, 2016, 12:41:36 PM12/7/16
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Just tragic news today. You can find some other memories at https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/5gyyxw/clojure_open_source_contributor_anthony_grimes/ as well. He will be missed!
Ken Restivo
Dec 8, 2016, 12:37:51 AM12/8/16
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Many people who have been here a while know what a bright, talented, and promising young programmer he was, and of his impressive list of contributions to the Clojure community. He seemed relentlessly curious, and worked professionally in Clojure, Haskell, NodeJS, CoffeeScript, Python, and last week was selling me on the virtues of some new javascript thing called Svelte.technology.
My project.clj's-- and I'm sure many other people's as well-- are filled with calls to his fine libraries.
What a lot of people might not know about Anthony is how much his first love (perhaps even more than programming) appeared to have been music. He regularly made videos of his singing and rapping covers. He could spend hours talking about and playing music, and he was as fearless and eclectic in his tastes in music as in technology.
Only a subset of the music he loved made it into my playlist, but I will never again be able to hear Eminiem, Watsky, Yelawolf, twentyone pilots, George Jones, Adam Lambert, Panic! at the Disco, The Pretty Reckless, CHVRCHES, Fall Out Boy, Kitty Pryde, One Republic, Dolly Parton, Paramore, Lana del Rey, and a few others, without thinking of him.
If you've never heard some of these artists, and you look up their music find that you like it, I'd venture a guess that he'd have been happy to have been a motivation for your discovery.
-ken
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My project.clj's-- and I'm sure many other people's as well-- are filled with calls to his fine libraries.
What a lot of people might not know about Anthony is how much his first love (perhaps even more than programming) appeared to have been music. He regularly made videos of his singing and rapping covers. He could spend hours talking about and playing music, and he was as fearless and eclectic in his tastes in music as in technology.
Only a subset of the music he loved made it into my playlist, but I will never again be able to hear Eminiem, Watsky, Yelawolf, twentyone pilots, George Jones, Adam Lambert, Panic! at the Disco, The Pretty Reckless, CHVRCHES, Fall Out Boy, Kitty Pryde, One Republic, Dolly Parton, Paramore, Lana del Rey, and a few others, without thinking of him.
If you've never heard some of these artists, and you look up their music find that you like it, I'd venture a guess that he'd have been happy to have been a motivation for your discovery.
-ken
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