I’m about 15 years into my “professional” programming career and I gotta say: I am missing _why the lucky stiff’s particular philosophy on programming more than ever

@isntitvacant _why is responsible for me being a programmer today

I didn't actually learn Ruby from his poignant guide but it's *existence* made me think

"Huh, well, if these Ruby people like these cartoon foxes, maybe I will like these Ruby people"

And I was right!

@isntitvacant their philosophy was to burnout from never ending work and unlimited feedback

become a famous opensource maintainer and you can do it too 👍️

@isntitvacant Oh yeah - I frequently think back to the good old _why times. <3

@isntitvacant what do you think they’d write about Kubernetes lol

@isntitvacant Before _why: "Programming is about... math? It's probably really hard."

After _why: "Programming is about cartoon foxes and making things and having fun and I can do it."

@nat @isntitvacant Markaby is still my favorite HTML templating engine.