Hello RPC. So, as many of you probably already know, the RPC Tea blog has been running for a few weeks, and there has been a lot posted about a lot of different people, including about me. I thought it would be better to address things up front now.
A few different anons have noted that I was reprimanded over a year ago by a few resource sites for recreating designs from pinterest. The TL;DR? Yes, this is true. I lost sight of what was okay for an isolated period of time and did something that was not okay. All the codes have been removed from my codepen and from where they were posted on resource sites, and none of them were ever put up for use or for sale. I understand that this was wrong and I regret it every day. At the time I didn’t think I needed to make a statement about it, as I had been reprimanded privately and none of the codes were ever touched by anyone else, but I also understand if people feel that I should have handled things differently. The internet is a tricky place to navigate, and I apologize for any wrongdoing there.
Please note that all of my codes for sale are my own designs. I was rightfully called out, and I have been careful since then to not fall down that hole. After I was called out, I took a break from coding to reevaluate, and everything I have done since then, I have been careful to not use more inspiration than general shapes or themes from other sources, as many in the coding community do.
I apologize to anyone I have let down in the process of all of this. I hope you can understand the place where I have come from as a fellow human behind a screen.Â