I’ve noticed you build most of your projects on Ruby/Rails. I’m curious what drives that choice. Is it mostly about speed of development, the ecosystem, or something else? I’d love to understand your reasoning since you’ve clearly got a lot more experience with it.
Yeah, my default is definitely to start most projects with Ruby and Rails, it's really good for my purposes on this newsletter. Most of the posts are proofs of concept where I'm more optimizing for something that works and is scannable/readable. Essentially write a little bit of code in kind of a "you get the gist" way.
I also find LLMs to be pretty good at Ruby, I think because it's designed to be readable like prose. Many times it's able to one-shot exactly what I'm looking for in a really simple way.
I’ve noticed you build most of your projects on Ruby/Rails. I’m curious what drives that choice. Is it mostly about speed of development, the ecosystem, or something else? I’d love to understand your reasoning since you’ve clearly got a lot more experience with it.
Yeah, my default is definitely to start most projects with Ruby and Rails, it's really good for my purposes on this newsletter. Most of the posts are proofs of concept where I'm more optimizing for something that works and is scannable/readable. Essentially write a little bit of code in kind of a "you get the gist" way.
I also find LLMs to be pretty good at Ruby, I think because it's designed to be readable like prose. Many times it's able to one-shot exactly what I'm looking for in a really simple way.