David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

I've really tried very hard not to let those sometimes petty, sometimes substantial grievances over time

seep in to the foundation of the ecosystem and risk ruining everything.

I'm sure it has.

I mean, who wouldn't?

I do.

Occasionally.

And I do marvel at both what's been built, what's been possible.

Over a million applications have been made with Ruby on Rails by one estimate that I've seen.

Businesses like Shopify and GitHub and a million others have been built on top of something that I started.

That's very gratifying.

But...

you really have to be careful not to smell your own exhaust too much.

And you have to be just as careful not to listen too much to the haters and not to listen too much to the super fans either.

That you assess the value and the sort of principles of what you're working towards on its own merits, on your own scoreboard.

I try to,

block that out, and then just go, well, I'm working on Rails because I love to write Ruby.

I love to use Ruby to make web applications.

That's my North Star, and I'll continue to do that, and I'll continue to share all of the open source GIFs that I uncover along the ways.

And that's it.

That's enough too.