No language feels like Ruby to me. Once you've been into it, others look more like formal languages in which you program and can do anything, yes, but with a different level of expressivenes and naturality. #ruby30th

Sr Rails devs describe Rails as being the easiest and most productive way to build web apps. Meanwhile Joe Masilotti Chris Oliver & others discuss how we’re losing a generation of Jr Rails devs because its daunting. Can both be true? Here’s my story on how Rails is losing Jrs. 📖👇

The best year to take Ruby on Rails seriously was 2004, the second best year is 2023!

Born too early to explore space Born too late to explore the earth Born just in time to sell B2b SaaS

1960s: "COBOL will let non-programmers make the software!" 1980s: "4GLs will let non-programmers make the software!" 2000s: "UML will let non-programmers make the software!" 2020s: "AI will let non-programmers make the software!"

Large teams evolve ways to manage complexity that small teams can barely imagine. Small teams evolve ways to avoid complexity that large teams can barely imagine

The future: AI writes the business plan, AI writes the pitch deck, AI incorporates the company, AI writes the software, AI negotiates the acquisition, AI writes the "our incredible journey" blog post promising commitment to the product, and AI turns the product off a month later.

3000 BCE: Imagine a hot shower... 1000: Wouldn't a hot shower be nice 1200: Wouldn't a hot shower be nice 1400: Wouldn't a hot shower be nice 1600: Wouldn't a hot shower be nice 1800: Wouldn't a hot shower be nice 2000: Ah, nice hot showers for all 🚿 2020: How about a cold

Complaining that testing (in general) slows down software delivery is like complaining that brakes slow down a race car.

I like this trend. Nature is healing.

$433M money raised, and a $5.6bn valuation happened. Postman needs to do a lot more than request inspection to justify this. For these numbers to make any sense, they would need to do $1bn+ in ARR for a freaking API client utility... Looking around, there are so many companies

Today I ran Turbo C++ 3.0 from 1992 in a DOSBox. It runs instantly, compiles instantly, steps instantly, syntax highlights instantly - even though DOSBox is emulating actual 386 speed. It's crazy how much modern software underdelivers :(

"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks

It’s true.

Something I like (among many other things) in Vladimir Dementyev's book is its rationale about errors for some situations. For example, validation of an internal model attribute should be strict: true (raises), because its violation means there is a bug in your code you want in your

Rails is like you are given a race car. You just fly. Nothing more consistent than a picture of DHH himself to illustrate that for my next talk/keynote on Rails and productivity. (Speaking at Mobile World Congress next week.)

We are entering a new era, folks

I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted. byroot.github.io/opensource/rub…