Hackety Hack and _why (Changelog Interviews #43)

Steve Klabnik joined the show to talk about learning to program with Hackety Hack and why the lucky stiff.

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Featuring:

• Steve Klabnik – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Steve Klabnik, maintainer of Hackety Hack, newest contributor to The Changelog


• Hackety Hack will teach you the absolute basics of programming from the ground up.


• _why, creator of Hackety Hack. Help keep his memory alive.


• Abbott and Costello’s classic “Who’s on first?”


• Yakety Yak is a song written, produced, and arranged by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Coasters and released on Atlantic Records in 1958


• Shoes is a tiny graphical app kit for ruby


• GTK is a highly usable, feature rich toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces which boasts cross platform compatibility and an easy to use API.


• MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9 directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C runtime and garbage collector, the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Foundation and ICU frameworks.


• The Shoebox is a gallery of Shoes apps.


• Mad props to Heroku, Sinatra, and MongoMapper for handling a LifeHacker traffic spike


• Ruby is a great language to teach programming


• _why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby


• ChunkFive is a nice bold free and open source typeface


• Steve is intrigued by projects like cool.io and node.js and the evented style of programming.

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