Thanks, just placed a hold on that book at my library!

Nice, I hope you get a lot out of it! I found much of his thinking familiar in isolation, but appreciated how he put it all together under the umbrella of burnout. It changed my perspective substantially and opened my mind quite a bit regarding how I treat myself.

541 views, on an 8 years old video. How many of those are you responsible for? Anyway I put it on my watch later list, thanks!

I found this refreshing after catching myself overthinking stuff lately. I want to reclaim the joy of coding in 2025.

‘it’ is a welcome addition!

Truly is, much nicer than that lonely `_1`

I'd have thought allowing _ as a synonym for _1 would have been more aesthetically consistent. That's the path I went with when designing my CL #λ reader macro, personally.

_2 can be as bad as _1

I don't understand the point of it when the `.map(&:upcase)` syntax is shorter. This just seems like yet another syntactic sugar Rubyism that doesn't really add anything.

If it's an alternative to the `|x|` syntax when using only one block variable, then I like that.

`arr.map { it.thing.blah.stuff }`

The `&:` doesn't work in that context

Not to point any fingers, but shows that the previous commenter have not struggled with this :)

&: is very nice, but not enough.

That only works when calling a method on the things you’re iterating thru, it is a replacement for the single variable block example you gave there

Don't say that word!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZvsGdJP3ng

Does `it` conflict with Rspec's `it`? Surely they've thought of this, but to my eye it looks like it would get confusing.

Nope it doesn’t, they did take that into account during development.

”In my experience, the stronger programmers don't use an IDE and also have no problem producing code at the same speed as IDE users. I also find that the code produced with an IDE is lower quality. I have no idea why”

Zed Shaw in Learn C The Hard Way. For some reason, the most brilliant devs I’ve worked with all used Vim, so I can echo this statement.

Shopify, but yes!

Mates, I’m fired up. I don’t know if DHH has evangelised me for so long or if it’s because we’re fairly aligned in our stances, but it feels like this ticks all my boxes. No more crazy expensive hosting, all can be understood by one person. It’s so much fun developing like this.

The whole not being dependent on Apple or AWS etc plays into the idea of Technofeudalism and how to counter that to keep a more open society alive. I highly recommend the Philosophise This podcast episode #206 if you want to get an idea of what technofeudalism is.

The Tailwind reference was so quick, what made you think it was useful? I mean I think I like Tailwind, just asking because I’m curious.

I’m so excited about all of this. I was about to start creating an Expo mobile app but maybe I’ll just go with Rails 8 and Hotwire Native for now. I know Rails way better and I enjoy it so much.

Oh wow, I'm only 5 minutes in and he's already said so much cool stuff that resonates with me around neomania, timelessness/the lindy effect etc (I've read too much Taleb recently). Thanks for the link!