This sounds like a great idea to me. I would certainly read it, and perhaps pay something for it. Hacker News and Reddit are useful for keeping up with the late

This sounds like a great idea to me. I would certainly read it, and perhaps pay something for it. Hacker News and Reddit are useful for keeping up with the latest announcements, but there's definitely a place for more reflective content that summarizes and analyses what's been happening and how they turned out. I think it would be useful for both the general tech scene, as well as specific technologies like Ruby and Rails.