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.
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Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
A programming adventure for Ruby beginners illustrated with cartoon foxes.
It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”
https://po-ru.com/2026/07/29/it-doesnt-matter-whether-matz-is-nice
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It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”
I’ve met Matz once, I think, at EuRuKo in Krakow in 2010. We chatted briefly in Japanese. He seemed nice, but also quiet and reserved. At the time, he didn’t speak much English; perhaps he could speak more and just wasn’t particularly confident, but he didn’t.