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Shoes was started by why_, who also wrote A Poignant Guide to Ruby. Highly recommended.
by GuiA 8y ago
Shoes was started by why_, who also wrote A Poignant Guide to Ruby. Highly recommended.
- jerrycruncher 8y agoIndeed. He did a small run of zines, that acted as a sort of printed manual, to celebrate the release of Shoes and I was lucky enough to get one. It's almost certainly my favorite piece of computing ephemera. Here's to you, _why - wherever you are.
- yebyen 8y agoThe programming manual with a soundtrack! And an onion somehow packaged neatly inside. https://poignant.guide https://poignant.guide > Pretend that you’ve opened this book (although you probably have opened this book), just to find a huge onion right in the middle crease of the book. (The manufacturer of the book has included the onion at my request.) So you’re like, “Wow, this book comes with an onion!” (Even if you don’t particularly like onions, I’m sure you can appreciate the logistics of shipping any sort of produce discreetly inside of an alleged programming manual.)