
Dave Thomas
@pragdave
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Programmer turned publisher (but mostly programmer)
Dallas, Texas
Joined May 2007
RT @joemasilotti: This is starting to feel very, very real!. I just received the final layout of my upcoming book. Next stop: the printer!….
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Check out my latest article: Learning a New Language (or anything, really…). via @LinkedIn.
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One of my students emailed me privately. She wanted to learn a new language over the summer, but she has “always had trouble finding structure and knowing what to learn when pursuing independent...
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A modern code font with no ligatures? Srsly?.
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The Google Sans Code font family. Contribute to googlefonts/googlesans-code development by creating an account on GitHub.
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RT @forgebitz: you could probably make AI models a lot better by letting them "disagree" a lot more with the user . but that would likely h….
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RT @RubyCademy: Take advantage of:. ➡️ the Rails::Console class.➡️ and IO.popen. to add a `pbcopy` helper that copies any console result to….
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RT @joemasilotti: 12 days after the first commit, Ruby Friends is officially live in the App Store!. It's built with Hotwire Native (of cou….
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RT @rails: Join @joemasilotti at #RailsWorld as he builds iOS and Android apps live on stage using #HotwireNative. No need to master Swift….
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Now idea why it took me so long to do this, but I finally twigged to a way of making @rails dev logs usable when looking at errors:. bin/dev | grep -v '/gems/' . Now the error fits on the screen. Added bonus: I'm no longer depressed by the depth of the Rails' call stack.
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RT @embersunn: Simplicity.Same author of The Pragmatic Programmer. Reminds you how overcomplicating things kills good software https://t.co….
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RT @jonathanfrias99: Had to buy the book after seeing @andatki's awesome talk at the last RailsConf! Was awesome to meet you! https://t.co/….
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Looks like @chadfowler and I will both be a next May. Wish it were sooner, but Vienna in May sounds like it will be delightful.
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RubyConf Austria is the Austrian Ruby conference. Join us in Vienna, Austria in 2026 on 29-31 of May.
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