Aaron is my personal career idol. I love seeing his work come up on here, it gives me a view in to the deeper workings of ruby that are years beyond my expertis

Aaron is my personal career idol. I love seeing his work come up on here, it gives me a view in to the deeper workings of ruby that are years beyond my expertise, but in a way that I can mostly grok what's going on. I'm super happy github hired him to hack around on ruby. Also, his talks are excellent; his closing keynote for RailsConf in particular seems worth recommending, as it was about his work speeding up Rails using kind of similar string optimizations/caching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTTygyxuGj8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTTygyxuGj8