His twitter updates have been reflective/borderline depressing lately as well. A lot of mentions of divorce. Clearly the guy's going through some stuff.

That's for sure. He recently divorced his wife and lost custody of his child. It's a lot of painful stuff to deal with and it's very much bleeding into his web presence.

That I didn't know... and for which I'm very sorry for him. That has to be crushing.

Please forget my previous comment.... don't want to kick a guy when he's down.

Glad that you noticed, or at least were made aware of, the full context of Zeldman's post via the public HN community and back-channels.

I urge some self-reflection via a few full listen-throughs of the early audio-only CalacanisCasts immediately following your tenure at AOL. It was especially galling given your impending fatherhood (congratulations btw.) and his current family status.

Given his near continuous contributions to the Web community over the years, Zeldman has more than earned the right for a little public venting.

Agreed. He's basically been the face of modern web design from the beginning. Even his emotionally-charged posts contain valuable bits of wisdom.

What are you referring to with CalacanisCast? something about having a family and being a startup CEO?

You mean the part where you say, "I have the inside line on this, trust me", right?

The inside line I'm talking about has nothing to do with his divorce... has to do on a business level that I know he's not crazy about me steeling his former partner to work on Weblogs, Inc. (who became very rich, 18 months after leaving happycog).

Don't apologize for kicking him while he's down, and then continue to give us information that accomplishes the very thing you're apologizing for.

You have a talent for making the entrepreneurship world a lot more dramatic and childish than it should be.

"Emopreneur" - great coinage; if you're not going to take the domain name, could I?

Careful, that's a load-bearing wall...