"I’ve found that while I’ve moved on from the Rails scene, the scene has not moved on from me. It’s time to do something else with your lives." I see the, uh,

"I’ve found that while I’ve moved on from the Rails scene, the scene has not moved on from me. It’s time to do something else with your lives." I see the, uh, "elevated self-esteem" remains. As a member of the "Rails scene" myself I don't feel particularly stuck on Zed, and I don't get the impression many others are either, if they ever were. Maybe a couple of curmudgeons whose nose he tweaked or something, but on the whole the scene is much too large for any one attention-seeker to disrupt for long. Note to Zed: Reddit users != "the Rails scene". Anyone who got bent out of shape by your rant != "the Rails scene". The real Rails scene is too busy, you know, working. Not that I don't like Zed, I do. As our gentle host PG once put it, he "offends the right people", and I respect anyone who gets things done. But his antics have been a drop in the ocean. Zed's work on Mongrel affected the Rails scene far more than his rants ever did, so on balance his influence has actually been pretty positive.