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so hacking on masto is actually really fun* and easy** once you have your dev environment set up

*great way to wreck your instance
**ten years dev experience

"the code is there. take it and do what thou wilt"

the code: an inscrutable tome of interlocking puzzles

@garbados until programmers learn to treat the implementation as one of the actually-important interfaces for other humans, and how to do that without accidentally building torture devices, it's gonna be ever thus.

(also i guess: ruby seems unusually rich in temptations to cleverness.)

@brennen ruby is fucking impenetrable. so much shit is just invisibly inserted into scope. i'm sure it makes someone out there feel very clever and it makes me hate them

brennen

@garbados yeah, i remember the allure of why's poignant guide and whatnot, and i remember feeling at one time that ruby would be a natural place for me to drift from perl, but i don't think time has been kind to a lot of the specific ways ruby culture thought it was humanizing programming.