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I keep coming back to this, but *hug your content creator today*.

The internet has a bystander problem. We discover insightful content on the web, we assume the author already received the spoils - and we move on.

To offer a personal anecdote, I'm the author of afl-fuzz. It's been used by tens of thousands of folks - for hobby, for work, to elevate academic careers. I fielded hundreds of bug reports and feature requests - and perhaps two or three personal "thank you" notes.

Today, I'm running lcamtuf.substack.com. Some articles get 50k+ views. It works the same: there are far more folks keen to point out errors or post contrarian takes on HN.

I'm not fishing for compliments for myself. It's just that, the next time you come across a useful OSS project or an interesting blog, drop the author a note. No one else does.