Thanks very much for all the kindness & support after yesterday's tweet.

Especially great to hear from people I've never met using @QuPath on images I've never seen to solve problems I quite possibly wouldn't understand.

Happy that going open-source exceeded my wildest hopes🙂
It has been sobering to read about the bad experiences others have had. I hope we can make things better.

It has also been a curious time to rediscover the positive power of Twitter, whilst I'm reading Cal Newport's 'Digital Minimalism' (albeit on an app, on my phone).
I'd like the focus to be on the bigger picture, not the specifics of my thing.

Pretty much all of us rely on open software. Writing & maintaining that software in academia remains harder than it needs to be.

Changing the recognition & incentives doesn't require writing code.
Most of all, I'd like researchers who *don't* write open software (but *do* inevitably benefit from it) to understand what it involves - & how we all contribute to making it work or not work.

For anyone who wants to know more, I think @nayafia's book is outstandingly good.
I'm off to send a few more replies (sorry if I miss any!) then think about other stuff, away from a computer.

There are lots more computational problems to solve & the next version isn't going to write itself...
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