david celisSep 19, 2025

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance

Rails Needs New Governance

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

Show threadLes OrchardSep 20, 2025

@davidcelis FWIW, I think 2009 was one of the last times I was remotely interested in Ruby on Rails and the surrounding community.

The "perform like a pr0n star" thing and resulting reaction just kind of convinced me to spend time tinkering with anything but. DHH seems at home there, as far as I can tell.

Not to say I haven't occasionally done Rails for a paycheck since then, but that's about all the fond regard I've got for it.

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CouchDB talk

The CouchDB talk was a talk given at the Golden Gate Ruby Conference in April 2009 by Matt Aimonetti. It featured innuendo about porn and soft porn pictures, an example of a sexualized environment and just one in an ongoing list of Sexualized presentations. One slide of the talk featured (CW: sexually explicit image) this image of the buttocks of a woman wearing only a thong. Aimonetti's presentation on SlideShare -- this has been made "private" as of February 2 2010, and Aimonetti has...

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Show threadLar Van Der Jagt
@lmorchard @davidcelis guy who gave that talk posted code I wrote for his startup to twitter in order to dunk on it. That was a big contributor to me effectively dropping out of the ruby community.
Sep 22, 2025 at 4:37pmWeb
Show threaddavid celisSep 22, 2025
@supaspoida @lmorchard what the fuck? i’m so sorry, man