Read why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby and Dave Thomas's Pragmatic Programmer in high school in the mid-2000s and got obsessed. I went looking for a Rails shop for my first job. I loved that Ruby had Perl's hacker spirit and Smalltalk's elegant object system.

I moved on to other languages a few years later. Almost twenty years on, reading about the far-right politics of some of Ruby's most powerful people just makes me sad.