🦄 Chip Uni Lots of us here are programmers. What's your favorite programming language, and why?
Cole Hudson there's a great book to be written on the economic impact of rails. i'd love to see a side by side graph showing rails adoption and the number of launched startups
😃 Javier Rails was so popular that people started mistaking Rails with Ruby as in: "I program in Rails". For some unknown reason to me did not embed in the internals of Linux distributions, it was always an option, like Lisp.
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🧐 Nrmn Short functions are a code smell. I had that opinion for longer but now there's scientific evidence for it: softwarebyscience.... (I'm looking at you, Ruby programmers!)
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🐢 Keb what's your favorite tiny framework? i recently used polka (node.js) for a project and enjoyed it. also i gave bottle.py a whirl a couple weeks ago and found it pleasant. loved that it included its own templating engine.
Miso I remember shoesrb.com, a GUI framework in ruby that's very simple to use. Brings lots of nostalgia!
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🧐 Nrmn I always loved flask but it's a long time ago that I used python. Sinatra, the ruby equivalent of flask is great as well. Today I want to give canteen a try. It's kinda like Flask as well but for Rust.
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📚 Terry Mcginnis Types in Ruby, similar to TypeScript developer.squareup...
🧿 Andrea Really exciting - I tried static typing in Ruby with Sorbet (made by Stripe) and it worked well, despite being in early stages: would this make it superfluous?
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📚 Terry Mcginnis Types in Ruby, similar to TypeScript developer.squareup...
🧿 Andrea Really exciting - I tried static typing in Ruby with Sorbet (made by Stripe) and it worked well, despite being in early stages: would this make it superfluous?
😃 Javier There is a circular logic somewhere when a computer language years ago boasted: Look Ma! No types (duck typing) and today someone boasts Look Ma! Types! (sigh).
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🔥 Caius Durling Rediscovered the inline Gemfile for pinning specific dependencies in ruby scripts. Rarely need it, but really useful when I do.
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🛰️ Alec A friend of mine just got into writing python. He's now asking if there are any resources for learning to write code more elegantly. Has anyone ever read anything that's helped you with the quality of your code?
🧿 Andrea I highly recommend the "99 bottles of ruby" book (2nd edition just came out and I've received a 50% off coupon) and exercism.io (same authors)
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🧿 Andrea I look at Hey.com and think 1) I could do most of productivity hacks in Gmail 2) I really want to build something new in Ruby 3) man, I miss Google Inbox
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👂 Sly What is your note taking method/workflow ? And what tools do you use ?
📚 Terry Mcginnis Tried a few things but they all lacked dynamic programming capabilities so now I'm building a custom memex. Backend consists of CouchDB, MeiliSearch, Apache Tika, Tesseract OCR, Ruby, and Node.js. The plan is to have a programmable web frontend that will allow traversing a personal knowledge graph using arbitrary search and linking operators.
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📚 Terry Mcginnis RubyConf 2018 - Building a Memex (with Ruby!) by Andrew Louis youtube.com/watch?...
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🔗 Peter Cooper So my business is running about 12 different weekly email newsletters (all double opt in, people want them!) in the software development space.. JavaScript Weekly, Ruby Weekly, things like that. So if you have any links I should be considering, just hit me up.
⚪ Ghostis How do you handle payments?
😾 Oskar How did you start with getting paid subscribers? I have this theory that a lot of content monetization is currently very, very, very hard and often pointless (medium/substack). Curious to hear somebody who is actually running it with revenue, as I could easily build few of those myself. I just don't understand sales process at all, where to start?
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🦄 Chip Uni Lots of us here are programmers. What's your favorite programming language, and why?
Mihail Ruby because it has the most elegant name.
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🗿 Simohamed I watched some Destroy All Software screencasts destroyallsoftware... where he uses Ruby, and it's amazing how much can be expressed in a single line. I can see myself having a blast writing code in it.
⚡ Kay you should! it's easy to learn and awesome to master. make sure to check out the ruby koans, it's a great place to start
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⚡ Kay Ruby because of its simplicity, it's elegant and flexible.
🗿 Simohamed I watched some Destroy All Software screencasts destroyallsoftware... where he uses Ruby, and it's amazing how much can be expressed in a single line. I can see myself having a blast writing code in it.
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