Ooh! Guilherme Orlandini Heurich, an anthropologist, was researching the Ruby community.

He went through a boot camp and worked as a Ruby engineer while doing an ethnographic study. His book about it has just come out!

https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/230881

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@codefolio this is really cool
@wildeng I agree! I did my best to introduce him to people because it seemed like such a good idea.
@codefolio I’m halfway through and I’m really enjoing it. It puts things in a different perspective and honestly despite having worked with different programming languages I now starting to understand why I always come back to Ruby.
I’ve also shared the book among my colleagues
@codefolio Interesting! I'll have a read
@codefolio Bought Kindle pre-release. If there’s an epub, I’d be glad to get that also. Thanks for sharing about this book!
@codefolio Coderspeak: <3 Author describes the Ruby culture as living community with influences from Rails and its late 2000s impact, the vision and hopes for the direction of the practitioner-founder Matz, and the facets of language. Discussions on freedom of expression with Ruby and its effect on developer happiness is a major theme. Great book and study. https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/230881
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