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I miss _why ...

Hackety Hack, like all of _why's projects, got adopted by someone else after his departure: http://github.com/steveklabnik/hacketyhack/

Alas, it doesn't seem to be getting much activity.

It's true. A crazy series of events took lots of my time recently... including the launch of my startup. I'm planning on getting back into the swing of things with Hackety, though, as my local Ruby Brigade just started up, and I feel like I could get a decent helping hand from some of those guys. I'd love to not be the only guy doing something with it. I have one other core contributer, but again, he's busy as well.

Every project goes through slow periods. _why has some quite large shoes to fill.

Hey, that's awesome, I hope it didn't sound like I was bashing you for neglecting it or anything. _why seemed to be superhumanly productive, so I wouldn't expect any one person to keep up his pace. I'm just happy to see that his projects weren't abandoned, thanks to you and everyone else who took up the torch.

None taken. We actually had a discussion about this a week or two ago. I'm just glad that you linked to my GitHub. Thanks for still talking about Hackety.

I recently sparked my little brother's interest in programming by installing a Ruby interpreter on his computer. I told him I would install things like Shoes and HacketyHack so that he could do fun things at his level. I hope that this begins to pick up speed again as it is such an awesome project.

Excellent. Just be warned, the only part of HH that doesn't work right now is the website integration, since _why killed hackety.org.

Let me know what he thinks, and any feedback that you might have. Positive comments are a great motivator. My email is in my profile.

His talk on this subject, for those who haven't seen it:

http://vodpod.com/watch/2078103-art-code-symposium-hackety-h...

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