Can somebody share more about some specific inspiring stuff _why did that makes him such an important figure in Ruby community:
Matz -> Ruby DHH -> Rails _why -> ?
And hoodwink.d was really fun while it lasted (it was kind of a secret club that you had to explore and figure out some simple tech problems to get into).
Wrote some parsers/generators for various markup languages, at least one of which is now part of the Ruby standard library (after extensive rewrites).
Kind of like ESR in that he's more accomplished as an advocate than a coder, but unlike ESR doesn't pretend otherwise, and especially unlike ESR had the good sense not to overstay his welcome.
Plus the Poignant guide helps.