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Ryan Bates is a legend

• Towaway69 3y ago
  Ryan did so much for the rails community and all because of the joy for RoR. Unfortunately iirc Ryan suffered a burnout and had a lengthy break. I hope all that is better now.
  • rbates 3y ago
    All is better. I still plan to blog about the burnout.
    • Towaway69 3y ago
      Great to hear and please blog about it - folks need to be aware of the dangers of burnout. Unfortunately having folks around me that had burnout helped me to avoid one myself.
• TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
  Indeed. Also, kudos to Chris Oliver for taking up the mantle. https://github.com/excid3 https://github.com/excid3
  • Lio 3y ago
    Definitely! Chris's stuff is great. The Ruby on Rails community struck me as different back in the day in how fun it was. It's hard to explain but coming from a Java background the community seemed to be full of interesting and engaging characters. Some people don't really appreciate that and prefer things to be very dry but I loved it. I'd like to shout out to Ryan Bates, Geoffrey Grosenbach, Zed Shaw, _why, Jason Seifer, Gregg Pollack, Sandi Metz, Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Yehuda Katz, Dr Nic, Tenderlove and a whole heap more. Thanks everyone, you've made it a very entertaining journey.
• brightball 3y ago
  I think he heard us... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38253485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38253485