Nobody goes the way alone.
I've had some genuinely hard times in my life — I would not be here, talking my crazy thoughts, without a lot of help and support. So I want to say thanks.
- My parents and family — and trust me, I often gave them a hard time. :)
- My teachers (at least some of them).
- Many, many friends and colleagues who supported, helped or pushed me, especially: Kristin, Simon, Raffi, Mercy, Marco, Klaus, Caroline, Björn, Gody, Phil, ... and even Volker. ;)
- My best-ever coding teacher, @rbates (Ryan Bates) — thanks for making Railscasts for so long! I still use a tweaked version of
letter_openerandcancancan. Dead simple, does the job great. - So many great coders who share their tools and skills — @dhh, @paul_irish, @chriscoyier, @addyosmani, @wycats, @josevalim, and so, so many more. Naming them all would fill its own page.
- Dennis E. Taylor — his books inspired me more than I can put into words. The Bobiverse ("We Are Legion (We Are Bob)") is the whole reason there are "Bob" agents crawling all over this project. Buy his books & audiobooks!! And — Mr. Taylor, I hope it's okay that I repurpose your Bobiverse here a little. I promise to always mention you with praise. :)
- Authors — so many other impressive, forward-looking or simply funny stories enriched my life. :) Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Andreas Eschbach, Stanisław Lem, ...
- Anthropic & @bcherny — Claude Code is mindblowing good. It had a few hiccups (and the Fable situation), but you always reacted, with limit-resets — thanks a lot. Special thanks for two limit-resets after a
/feedback. You're awesome. - OpenAI — my first real touch-point with all of this was your services. I'm pretty sure ChatGPT 3.5 was the first model that genuinely helped me. Great job.
