Did you build Twitter with Ruby and Rails?.

15 years ago or so I wanted to learn Ruby on Rails. I even bought a RoR for Dummies book. Maybe I need to finally read it? 😂 View quoted note →

If you have to ask for permission you're building it wrong. View quoted note →

Need more PWAs!

I think he’s explained himself. He left Twitter and has devoted the rest of life to promoting protocols over platforms.

Rails proves to be a gem, I'm really glad I chose it 15 years ago as my everyday ready-to-go creative toolkit

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Are you going to rewrite njump in Ruby?

Nooo, you can't! It isn't type-safe! We need TypedRuby!

David and Jason are incredible

To me this feels parallel to the real estate realm of actual soil based land, and the many veils of deception placed by the "globalists" over the last few decades just as it's manifested in the digital SaaS realms (ownership hooks, enslavement paradigms, codependency). If you read your inferior "warranty deed", you realize you don't "own" your land despite having paid for it, you are just a lease holder and it can be tinkered with and also taken away from you should you not comply with any one particular commercial law elements. On the other hand in the realm of constitutional law, the Superior title to your land, the land granted by treaties law in the US after the revolutionary war, your "land patent" is owned by the heirs and assigns FOREVER. (protected from any gov encumberances) Land Patent stands solid in the Superior Court of Law. ONCE, there was a birthright to the land that is NOW being reclaimed. Which is why it seems, I've been studying, and liaisoning people in various states in the US with claiming and perfecting their "land patents" over the last 10 months+. An entirely out of the blue yet quite synchronistic full fuck yes development on my path to figuring out the puzzle pieces to "rebirthing civilization". I'd be curious to see how that world and this world coalesce to anchor deeper self govern sovereign paradigms of being for the well being of all of Life. There's def something about bringing aspects of the land patent process up on the block chain that are starting to clarify.

Would be massive.

Actually, this was my first plan when I proposed to fiatjaf the idea of a static gateway, but my pet nostr lib written in ruby was too limited; Go's one instead is rock solid, and njump doesn't need many interactions. I'm happy to have learned something new, golang is really nice, even if the template stuff sometimes is pure craziness :)

Didn’t @jack used Rails earlier on, and that Twitter evolved beyond— while still using some Ruby? I did a Rails course years ago (that DHH backed) although I wouldn’t say I am a developer. Hartl’s books and now his learnenough.com and PragmaticStudio (Mike and Nicole’s courses) are good. I also think I heard Jack once say on Bitcoin.Review (?) something like Rails was the bane of their existence. Would love the elaborated version of why this was the case— and does Rails8 and does that change his opinions on using the framework vs. something Python based, etc.🫂 PV!

Yes, I believe Twitter was originally built on Rails.

100% . Hartl’s Rails tutorial basically built a twitter-esque micro post app— minus the network effects 🤣. It does skip the budding blue bird censorship, and privacy hating mechanisms and authoritarianism aspect.

This is supposedly the good thing:

GitHub

GitHub - a-h/templ: A language for writing HTML user interfaces in Go.

A language for writing HTML user interfaces in Go. - a-h/templ

But I tried and it was super cumbersome to set up and then it wasn't that great. I'll try again in another project, then maybe someday we can switch.

ahahah, since I tried it has jumped from 500 stars on GitHub to 4500 (in three months), that means it must have improved by a lot, right?

Oh oh, I can smell a new rewrite in the air haha

Your post is getting a lot of views. Added to the https://nostraco.in/hot feed

For the self-hosted, I wonder if this work with Tor and LAN only backends. E.g. a PWA running over Tor while you travel but switching to a 192.168…. when you arrive at home or your uncle’s?

I'm still a react gal 😂

don’t ask for permission, is a right

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From what I understand they used Ruby in the early days, then rebuilt in Scala as they scaled. I’m sure there are services/components built in other languages these days.

Good to see permissionless entering the chat