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1.method(:day).source_location <= your friend was wrong shrug

Look, I'm not a big fan of all of Rails' monkeypatching. That's why I don't use Rails anymore, I use other Ruby frameworks like Bridgetown, Roda, and Hanami. But there's definitely a way to dive into the "magic" and find out what's going on.

This whole article reads like AI slop. I know only a little about Rust and less about Zig, and I have no doubt there are real pros and cons to each. For those of who you love Zig and dislike Rust, no problem! But I got to like halfway through and realized this article was telling me absolutely nothing about anything.

I would love an actual head-to-head comparison between Zig and Rust with real commentary on both the shortcomings and the wins.

There's something way off about that image, I'd bet money it's AI. Gross.

Ruby is an awesome language. The first few 3.x releases brought incredible modern advancements, including pattern matching which I totally adore.

I'd love to see a lot more writing and advocacy around Ruby, and not Ruby/Rails. I don't use Ruby/Rails! I use Ruby. And I suspect a lot of folks who have left Ruby behind over the years might not realize some (many?) of their gripes are not with Ruby in general, but Rails in particular.

Best news I've heard all day. slow clap

I took a look at Datastar, and pretty quickly realized I really don't like libraries which try to do so many different things. The surface area of the API is way too big. htmx is already too big for me, I tend to reach for mostly vanilla-only or small vanilla-adjacent solutions I can either write by hand or import. But as I've been experimenting with htmx (including its very good extensions API), I'm realizing it's in a pretty good sweet spot overall.

I'm very excited about htmx 4.0 and sounds like things are headed in a promising direction.

I'm sure you're not biased. I'm sure all the people applauding Ruby Central and Ruby Core right now aren't biased. /smh

you're leaving out copious amounts of context here so sounds like you are obfuscating on purpose.

Oh I can assure you, it will be a thing.

kinda does, tbh.

Maybe Miller got it from a 1940s black and white propaganda video. He seems to eat that stuff up.

Ed Zitron may be many things but he is no grifter. He writes what he believes and believes what he says, and I basically agree with all of it. The chattering class in SV has been wildly wrong for years, and they'll really look foolish when the market crashes horribly and these companies collapse.

I have no doubt a certain contingent who tend to flock on a certain former bird-themed network are happily spreading their votes around.

If you say something like “if you invoke the word "fascism" in the context of today's politics, your opinion is immediately worthless”, your opinion is immediately worthless.

> that's a worldview I have very little time for

Only people who already live in a position of privilege get to have "little time" and settle for worldviews which advocate for a sort of bland tolerance of extremism. I can assure you, for people who are being actively harmed by hateful rhetoric and political policies, "those who are not with us are against us" is absolutely a reality.

Excellent point, I can't help but feel gem.coop is essentially Ruby Together 2.0 which reinforces my opinion that the merger of RT with RC was a huge mistake. (It certainly made sense at the time…hindsight is always 20/20…etc.…but still.)

You are doing exactly what happens repeatedly in these sorts of conversations. You completely ignore all subtext, all historical context, all conclusion, all metatextual reading in favor of exact out-of-context literal wordings which you claim will convince you of the case. That is not what will happen, but of course you know that already.

No xenophobic racist with an ounce of sense is going to write something like "brown people are rapist criminals who have invaded our lands and must be cleansed". It's absurd to maintain we must provide that as proof or it didn't happen.

These tortured analogies make my brain hurt. We should be a applauding the brilliant and talented engineers who are rightly rejecting the slop machines and doing their damn jobs, rather than acting like this is the third coming of software. (It's not.)

world.hey.com/dhh is not just "a personal blog" as it is simultaneously where he posts everything he wants to publish about his professional work, and sometimes it's literally the official updates on the software he maintains such as Turbo.

I can concur, I have spent some time with him IRL. He is one standup guy, and his ethics are inspiring.

In a word, yes.

It's Perham.

What? This article is absolutely damning re: RC's leadership and the utter lack of proper transparency, strategic planning, marketing/PR, and solid OSS governance. Did we read the same article?!

Sorry, this is not the profession of programming, and people in the near future will be looking back at this era and laughing their asses off.

But not me, because I will never touch an agentic tool. And believe me, I have a big smile on my face. Life is good! =D

I talk to so many people on almost a daily basis now who are migrating out of Rails or have already done so. The brain drain problem is massive. DHH has grown a cult of personality that is actually shrinking the overall ecosystem. This is what happens with authoritarians. The "in-crowd" gets louder and louder—at the expense of a diminishing body politic due to increasing disenfranchisement.

I don't know if it's too late for Rails itself to be saved, but we need a robust Ruby ecosystem entirely removed from the RoR framework and we need it yesterday.

Tobi's views during recent Canadian elections were extremely public on X. This isn't even something to state as a controversy, geez.

He doesn't run an open source project well when there's a substantial brain drain from the ecosystem due to his loudly-expressed worldview being deplorable.

This is like the fallacy of marketers who only measure slight short-term increases in engagement. It's not success if you get a temporary bump of 5% if you also end up pissing off a ton of people who will never come back. Eventually the whole thing craters.

IMHO he violated the CoC of the Turbo project. FWIW, I'm by no means a TypeScript guy so I was even sympathetic to his general ideas on that topic. But his handling of it was terrible.

A very biased take to be sure. Who is the "they" you are referring to? Who is "the American Ruby community"? Sounds like a thinly-veiled attack on "leftists".

I know plenty of Rubyists in Europe who these days find DHH as a person to be completely odious, not to mention a maintainer in violation of CoC.

Oh wow. I'm absolutely alarmed after reading that. To be honest, I had been wondering if some of the PR disasters this year could be laid on Rhiannon's shoulders, but it sounds like the rot is coming from the top.