Hey everyone. @dominic reached out to me privately to tell me that I did not receive my grant because @mixmix has outstanding issues with me regarding the mcss/css debate that happened in November of 2016.

I thought it would be best to also publish my reply to him on this thread, so that everyone involved knows what was said:

hey @dominic. I understand that if the grants require mix's participation to be finalized, that it'd be impossible for you to give me this grant.

I'm 100% resolved around the mcss/css debate. It was a conflict. As you said, we have disagreements all of the time. The only difference with this disagreement, is it appears that mix has not been able to let it go.

While I'm tempted to continue to talk about this, I'm not sure if there's any way besides me and mix getting together for a coffee IRL that's going to make things better. We did a lot of talking on the network, and on calls, and it doesn't seem to have done much good.

It's been more than a year, I'm sad to hear that mix still is holding a grudge about the event.

For me, it was always about css (used by many) and mcss (used by few). It only escalated when people started cussing at me on a dev call.

My perspective, however, has changed. I now believe we were unable to work together because, as you mentioned, patchbay wasn't designed in the best way possible to accomadate different views. This is similar to the issue that @dangerousbeans and I had on this pull: https://github.com/evbogue/decent/pull/3 where he wanted to use bootstrap 4, and I wanted to use bootstrap 2. We were unable to do both at the same time, without forking. And we're still buddies! Even though he lives on the other side of the world.

I think the best way to proceed here is for me to continue to work on what interests me, and for y'all to continue to work on what you're interested in. I'll continue to self-fund. I have a part-time job working in retail at Levi's right now. It is very team oriented, and pays enough for groceries.

If you want to throw me this grant next month, I leave that up to you. I'm not going to actively campaign for it, because it would escalate things with mix, and I want to de-escalate this situation.

Give me a shout on Decent, if you decide to take me on as an intern, and I'll pop right back over to the main network.