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Mikeal Rogers has died

Mikeal Rogers, my best friend, my colleague, confidant, and one of a kind partner in countless late night chats and restless travel sprints, has died. Mikeal died of aggressive cancer. Words feel wholly inadequate because I want to capture the sweep of what he meant to me and to the

Mikeal Rogers, my best friend, my colleague, confidant, and one of a kind partner in countless late night chats and restless travel sprints, has died. Mikeal was core to nodejs, from our earliest days at DigitalOcean, when he turned developer evangelism into an act of radical hospitality, late night strategy sessions where we mapped new ideas on napkins, quiet moments where I cried over the weight of life, Mikeal modeled a rare combination of technical brilliance, clarity, and unfiltered humanity, reminding everyone in his orbit that code is just a conduit for connection for humans, for community. My growth traces directly to his insistence that vulnerability and rigor are not opposites but allies, that a great team is forged as much in shared laughter as in polish, that success is hollow if it leaves no room for empathy and compassion.

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