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There’s an old lightning talk from RubyConf 2019 that I love, about how there’s no such thing as knowing your computer “all the way to the bottom.” At no point does it stop being a stack of leaky abstractions.

An unsuspecting fellow emailed me in response, asking, “yes, but isn’t there one, final...

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On Mastodon, FullStack Ruby asks:

It’s a strange sort of environment to be living in as a Ruby programmer.

On the one hand, so much momentum behind low-level “systems” programming languages with strong, static typing.

On the other hand, the “future of programming” is guiding the education of...

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I got a lovely email from Gustavo Carvalho, in Brazil. It’s a professional question, not so much a technical question. I’m fine with those.

He wrote:

Did you ever set long-term professional goals? If so, how did you approach it? How did you set it up?

I’m having a really hard time thinking about...

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