I worked with Stuart Carroll of Ascid.com for several years, and have been working with him on an ongoing client project.

He passed away this Sunday of a heart attack.

He was generous with his time and his knowledge, helpful and cheerful and snarky in just the right ways, and I will miss him very much. There’s so much I could say about him, all of it good, because he’s one of the few people I’ve known about whom very few bad things could be or ever were said. He was good at what he did, whether it was bringing people together to share the love of a tv show, or programming a website, he did it with a cheerful competence that made it look easy.

My life has to keep going on, even though his is over. I hate hate hate saying I have to replace him — Stuart, as a human being and friend, was irreplaceable.

Unfortunately, sentiment won’t get my php/mySQL issues resolved, so I’m looking for someone good, small, freelance and competent. They won’t be Stuart, but maybe the new connection will have a different kind of value.