This reminds me of the party game Telestrations where players go back and forth between drawing and writing what they see. It's hilarious to see the result because you anticipate what the next drawing will be while reading the prompt.

I'd love to see an alternative viewing mode here which shows the image and the following prompt. Then you need to click a button to reveal the next image. This allows you to picture in your mind what the image might like while reading the prompt.

Thanks for making this fun little app!

Update: I just realized you can get this effect by going into mobile mode (or resizing the window). You can then scroll down to see the image after reading the prompt.

Reminds me of exquisite corpse, where folks take turns drawing a piece / writing a paragraph and can only see the most recent one (https://austinkleon.com/2020/07/02/exquisite-corpse/)

Thanks! Glad to help.

Thanks Ryan. You made me love Rails and to be passionate about coding. I’m still working every day in it and still love it every single day. I have a one man SaaS that is providing for me and my family for the last 9 years.

You played a big part in it. Thank you!

Mind sharing your sass business, or the category? Always inspiring to hear about those.

All is better. I still plan to blog about the burnout.

Great to hear and please blog about it - folks need to be aware of the dangers of burnout.

Unfortunately having folks around me that had burnout helped me to avoid one myself.

I wouldn't expect to be mentioned in the documentary, but thanks for the shout out. :)

We (Rails programmers) appreciated all your amazing content and skills as an educator Ryan! A well-deserved Ruby Hero award recipient.

Thank you all for the kind comments! The Rails community has always been supportive to me. Even criticisms were done in a constructive manner.

I will go into detail on why I stopped RailsCasts in part 3, but I will say it wasn’t because of the community. You all have been awesome.

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, I was working as a C# developer in a big, old, traditional enterprise environment. I had burned out and I was falling out of love with programming.

A friend introduced me to Ruby and I became excited again. Railscasts helped me immensely in being able to very quickly build things. This motivated me to continue and before long I was able to change jobs and start using Ruby and Rails full time.

Thanks.

This pretty much sums up my story exactly as well.

The intangibles on this effort are huge!

Thank you :)

Thank you!

Everything I am and every single penny I've earned can be attributed back to you or M. Hartl. I'm so happy I stumbled into rails 10 years ago.

I just want to say thank you for everything you've done for the rails community. you have been a hero of mine since i started learning rails a decade ago. i hope you are enjoying life and thriving cause you have earned it and deserve it. thank you again for all the help.

I thought it was because you weren't making enough... How wrong was I lol. I've made a lot of similar videos though and it's an enormous amount of work.

Railscasts helped me get my first Rails job. Thanks for all you’ve done.

Graded Go Problems for Beginners

A bit of a cheat answer. The book here represents the game of Go. I found getting into this hobby helped in problem solving other areas of my life since it exercises analyzing many branching paths.

There are often too many possibilities to try every one, so it requires intuition to narrow down the good options, and then you can visualize how it might play out.

Kent Beck wrote up a workflow along these lines called test && commit || revert. The idea is any change that makes the tests pass is committed, any change that makes the tests fail is reverted. https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-commit-revert-870bbd7...

I believe Kent has also posted a few videos on YouTube demonstrating this approach.

Thank you for this

A couple more suggestions:

- Option to lock scrolling so they both scroll at the same time.

- Button to flip them in place to help see the differences.

Interesting, I ended up with Fira Mono and my current font is also DejaVu Sans Mono which I also like better. The @ sign does it for me.

Reliability isn't as good for me as the 2015 MacBook Pro. My 2019 16" doesn't register presses that are near the edge of the keys like the 2015 model did. Perhaps it's related to the travel distance. It is my biggest issue with the 16".

This was the selling point for the butterfly keyboard when it was introduced, actually, that no matter where you hit on the key it would be equally responsive.