“We only hire the best”

How many times have you heard a company claim that they only hire the best? The top of the top. The crème de la…

Ruby has been fast enough for 13 years

When I started programming Ruby, it was on an Apple iBook G4/800. That beautiful 12” powerhouse of a 800 MHz PowerPC with a rocking 256MB of RAM. A lovely computer that was not only fast enough to run Ruby, but a pleasure to develop the first version of both…

Getting from ⭐️⭐️ to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

How to ask for reviews without feeling icky about it

Warren Buffet on scheduling meetings

I recently heard about Warren Buffet’s approach to scheduling meetings. I can’t confirm this is…

What we learned while hiring the Basecamp summer internship class

Provide sharp knives

Ruby includes a lot of sharp knives in its drawer of features. Not by accident, but by design. The most famous is monkey patching: The power to change existing classes and methods.

This power has frequently been derided as simply too much for mere mortal programmers…