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I've always felt this was a singular achievement, one which perfectly captured the spirit of its author, the community he inhabited, and a particular zeitgeist in programming and on the internet. The need for various other authors to attempt to replicate it for other languages by creating rambling, twee books with wacky titles and comic characters of their own, I've frankly found a bit sad and underwhelming. It's a b…
A lot of nerd/hacker culture falls into this kind of recognition of unique humor and wit, then squeezing every little drop of joy out of it until it's as empty as a Garfield cartoon.
Why do Rubyists like this convoluted and almost childish communication style?
Why do some people like onions? Let's not say "Why do Rubyists like this…", consider instead "Why do humans like this…". Some of us liked it because it was fun, and appealed to our sense of humor. Ruby was weird back then. Some of us didn't like it, and for them there was the Pickaxe book among others. Personally I loved what _why did in the early Ruby scene. In fact one day I cold mailed him because I was feeling ra…
I don't care for onions, but I can appreciate the logistics of shipping one.
Why do Rubyists like this convoluted and almost childish communication style?
Why do you feel the need to be condescending and combative?
Looking back, I'm sure we had never met. I just think he probably did that to build connection with anyone he met, and I loved that moment with him. There was amazing intimacy that he created everywhere.
(2005) I think?
Does anyone know if this site was recently put together or if it's been around all along? WHOIS says the domain was registered back in '14. I love _why's writings and largely credit him with getting me excited about using Ruby back when I was in college. Really nice to be reminded of his work.
It used to be on a different domain. Just checked my email history and I sent a link to it in 2008 when it was hosted at a .net domain.