the blog post was worst than I thought. I haven’t heard from the “well maybe our companies look like this because we’re the best, actually” in a long while. embarrassing, really.

I remember when the first of his anti-politics or whatever screed came to my attention a few years ago I was actually worried about how it might impact the Ruby / Rails ecosystem and community. I’ve been happy with how there’s a vocal rejection and hope it meaningfully continues

I started in Ruby and Rails because there was a whole ecosystem of folks focused on creating supportive pathways into it (first exposure was doing a RailsBridge workshop in 2012 when I was in another career), and have kept with it throughout my career in large part because of the community explicitly focused on inclusion and mentorship. the things that make better social and, by extension, technical systems. the guy is showing his whole ass