@noelrappin.com
Staff Engineer at Chime. Co-author of Programming Ruby. Author of Modern Front End Development for Rails. Also, http://noelrappin.com/about to find me. (He/Him)
@jremsikjr.bsky.socialReposted by @noelrappin.comThis is a fantastic talk and I can’t wait to share it.
@xoruby.comReposted by @noelrappin.comWe do not know the long term effects … of using AI tools on projects at scale.
@noelrappin.comThe hook here is that last week, conference attendees overwhelmingly said both * They don't directly write code * They still consider themselves Ruby programmers What does that mean?
@noelrappin.comI'll be speaking at NYC about the "Rubyist in the Loop"
@xoruby.comReposted by @noelrappin.comThe Toronto vibes were great and that was before we pulled out a huge stack of cash to distribute. 🤣
Join us!
- Oct 10: NYC
- Oct 17: Montréal
@andycroll.bsky.socialReposted by @noelrappin.comWrote a thing about last week's Rails World.
andycroll.com/ruby/look-a...
@noelrappin.comDo you have these videos? www.youtube.com/@ChicagoRuby...
The older ones have vanished from the Vimeo account but somebody has to have them somewhere
@noelrappin.comI was searching to remember when the first Windy City Rails was and found this blogpost from @andyatkinson.com who was also there… andyatkinson.com/blog/2008/09...
@sfruby.comReposted by @noelrappin.comThis conference is about celebrating YOU. 💙 So after chatting with a bunch of you, we made three changes to the event: - We changed the name back to SF Ruby Conference. - We updated our keynote speakers because, unfortunately, Garry Tan can't make it anymore. - Day passes are now for sale.
@noelrappin.comOkay, the cover isn't attached yet, but Programming Ruby 4.0 now has an Amazon Pre-Order for the physical book, which is winding its way through production.
@xoruby.comReposted by @noelrappin.comThree cities, three Saturdays, and a bunch of folks making it happen!
Toronto - Oct 3: Clio.com, @fullscriptdev.bsky.social, Phoenix.ca, Toronto Ruby
NYC - Oct 10: Chime.com, WyeWorks.com,
Montréal - Oct 17: Fullscript.com
Leg Sponsors: @dnsimple.com, Typesense.com, @confreaks.bsky.social
@noelrappin.comDefinitely true of my other self-published books. The wxPython book was with Manning, I'd believe anything about why it didn't show up. No idea about the other one or two Prag books, I'm assuming they weren't in the data set
@noelrappin.comThe website for this is kind of baffling, so who knows if this has all been set up right, or whether there will be anything actually distributed...
@noelrappin.com* Take My Money, and Rails 5 Test Prescriptions, that are 100% to Prag (who will then split them with me as if it was a royalty). Why these books, and not, say the wxPython book from Manning? Or the Pickaxe book? (I'm guessing that was too new) Or Modern Front-end. No clue.
@noelrappin.com* Rails 4 Test Prescriptions, split 50/50 with Prag * The Wrox book, which Wrox is asserting 90% of and the agent I was working with is asserting 10% of, which I assume I get paid out of that, I really have no idea.
@noelrappin.comAuthors are getting notifications from Anthropic about how the settlement is being allocated. And it's sure puzzling. I have 5 books in the settlement * Jython book from O'Reilly, I have 1/6, co-author has 1/3, publisher has 50, this matches our contractual split
@noelrappin.comYeah, it'd probably be good to get them on record sooner rather than later.
@noelrappin.comNew blog post / newsletter, continuing the When Books Could Code series, specifically continuing the discussion of Extreme Programming Explained, this time covering the original 12 practices and what happened to them…
@noelrappin.comHaving turned in the extensive translator-driven revisions to Pickaxe 4.0 and 3.3, I find myself without a book project, or even the idea of a book project, for the first time in... 20 years? It's a weird feeling.
