Hackety Hack and _why (Changelog Interviews #43)

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.