:(

I hope you’re all happy you won’t see anymore pixels of code.

Meanies! :(

I think _why found some new friends. So long to the old ones. Maybe we never were?

:(

so. um. what about those nifty projects you did? Like Camping, Hpricot, etc? Will they continue to be nursed and nurtured? Will news of their growings-up be announced at Hackety??

:(

rluv: We’re all friends on this lush, fertile planet!! I’m just trying a slightly different topic.

roberthahn: I’ll announce them on Ruby-Talk. And: they all have mailing lists and RSS feeds as well. And there are a wealth of Ruby blogs chuggin away day after day after day after day!!

first!

why, why, why, why, why

On a related note: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

So long, why, and thanks for the fi$@#&^& %$! &JHGFDblurg

fare thee wellll!

psmith: You’re welcome for all the fi$@#&^& %$! &JHGFDblurg

how about grown kids like me who run linux boxen?

You mean I’m going to have to go somewhere else to listen to you talk about something else. Not that I have ever heard your actual voice nor do I listen as I mostly peruse.

ok…..

Btw someone is really watching you Check out the sliverlight DLR Console

Can you say tryPython..

Rails killed him. But a stronger Why rises from the ashes, into the clouds of longing smoke! Oh yeah!

:(

To the stars!

\o/
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/ \

why we must say goodbye, and thanks for the nuts.

:’(

man, this is the only ruby blog I bother to read. oh well.

RedHanded was what made me red handed. And it was the best place to stretch my mind just a little bit more.

Thanks for everything, _why!

We’ll be loitering here forever in case you pop back in to say hi.

^I’ll loiter with you.

Meh!

Images broken in Hackety RSS feed btw.

Thanks for everything. I’m sad to see RedHanded go… Long live Hackety!

godspeed

Can we have one last?

5.gets WhyTheLuckyStiff

Pretty please? (with sugar on top)

:((

Thanks for all the seizures and head-scratching.Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

That’s an utter sin _why! You cannot leave us checking your blog forever and getting disappointed always!! No you cant!

You made me understand ruby, you made me go crazy trying grok the camping source, you made me feel smart when I knew what a bit of code on this blog did. We are going to miss you _why! Hackety.org looks like it will be fun, knowing it’s not all HH all the time. But nothing says Ruby in the English language like RedHanded.

:) <- For providing my favourite blog for the last year :( <- That it has to end

Douglas F S : Oh no blam!!

:( <= for the people who just subscribed to this blog yesterday.

Long live Redhanded. May I suggest making another closing post, or perhaps a post on Hackety instead, linking to the “Best of Redhanded”?

Like the time that guy smacked you in the face about being what’s wrong with Ruby, or that time you held code out of reach of the lazy and those with eyesight, or that time you vacuumed all of Greenland for them.

Oh and of course: 37Cymbals

Man, this makes me kind of sad.

In the parlance of our times, wtf?

Leaving will kill the whole Ruby community; I strongly suggest you rethink this position, immediately.

thanks for all the fish.

Hackety! :D

_why is a bowl of soup…. :(

:( !

His posts on the RedHanded blog are blurring the lines between art and computer programming.

RedHanded was great, can’t wait to read Hackety :-)

I have set us up a memorial tumblelog here:

redhanded.tumblr.com

Please log-in and leave your fondest memories!

Thanks for all the giggles and great ideas!

Wow I’m totally crying. :’(

When hobix starts working with anything besides 1.8.4 maybe we’ll have a spur of other weird and interesting Ruby specific blogs.

My feed reader is going to be sad for days.

Every time i type an “h” in my google search box thing, and “hobix” is suggested…well…those will be the hard times.

I may have to Clear Private Data to get over this one.

Dear _why, you are my hero. You came from nowhere to turn on the light and knock over all the chairs: Like an exotic ambulatory pasta, only dressed in a cape and with a suspiciously long nose. I’ll follow you anywhere—particularly if anywhere has many lots of yaminals. You betcha.

“I will never forget you, _why. MEMORY ERASED ”

truly, the end of an era. redhanded will be mourned.

Thanks, _why!

your latest forum post doesn’t accept comments. bah.

Egads.

Thanks for for the ride – see you on the Hackety side

At least I finally got to get that vending machine that dispenses slippers.

Thanks, _why.

why, you own me a muffin :(

To the greatest blog in the history of not just Ruby programming, but man kind itself!

cheers

_why, I’m revoking your Hell-staying privileges (you will no longer get to spend quality time with Lucrezia Borgia) and sending you to eternal boredom in Heaven with Mother Teresa. You might want to reconsider this decision!

No more chunky… chunky (what was it?)... (don’t tell me…) chunky… damn.

FYI : There is life after deleting a blog. Esp for the deletee. It’s the reader that must cope with this act of performance art. Redhanded lives in our minds. Our chunky minds.

Sad because I’ll miss Redhanded, but not sad because I know your time will certainly not go to waste on Hackety, and I’m guessing this is your new calling. If so, I think it will have a really big impact, so if the death of Redhanded leads to insane growth of Hackety, I’m happy! Thanks for the mammaries!

Um, Is it possible that you are unaware that ‘Tallyho!’ (with or without the exclamation point) is a FOX HUNTING CALL ??? H-ety H sure seems to be a fox-friendly place, but should we be worried that our bacon (chunky and otherwise) could be at risk? Could this be a trap?

Yes, yes, we’ll follow you pied piper, because we love you and, quite apart from that, we’re pathetic. I’ve sent my kids out into the dismal world of ‘programming’ to navigate themselves, and the three older ones (now 8, 11, 13) have each chosen a different path. I think they’ll breeze through HH and maybe just fall back in love with ruby!

I’ll let you know.

Peace, godspeed, farewell, and see you on the other side!

Why The Lucky Stiff, you have my emphatic support. Artists must grow to stay relevant! Let popular demand tempt you not! Also sneaking Ruby through the system doesn’t require your caliber in 2007, sneaking code past the business interests is a far more noble and challenging goal.

Goodbye and good luck, it was great reading RedHanded – one of the reasons I like Ruby.

We will miss you

:(

Why, I would still very much like to see SuperRedCloth continued, especially with hard_breaks and filter_html features! Even if you release it as an animated finger-painted 120MB gif file!

Thank you for everything you’ve done for the ruby community!

Question answered I presume. Congrats.

More power to you, sir.

and we were singing bye, bye, mr redhanded why…

Bye. I Will sure miss this blog.

Thanks so much for this site, why.

We must always be inspired CONgrats my friend you are An inspiration to us all the spirit you created will blOOm as it has blOOmed but with different mouths and mice SO Shall we be content - ever happy for you & with you

ruby-internet just got less interesting, but the rest just got a lot better :)

Thanks for all the fish from the emerald times.

So, what is going to happen with Camping? I am actually using it and it is great, but I would like to know one way or another if it is going to be updated or left as-is (if so I might as well move to something else now).

I really won’t miss the seizure-inducing pixel spew. Everything else, though, I will. ; ;

why the mad genius. I never understood half of what you said/coded/drew/sang/scribbled… but still it was well worth it

sdfasdf

I think this is a life first, maybe something people never could have experienced before. Feeling a sad sense of separation from the closing of a blog.

The original programmer rock star. Thanks for the educational bits, and I hope you keep on keepin’ on…

this really makes my sad :´( i will miss this blog…

This blog was awesome. Maybe one day it will return.

:(

Does that mean that ruby has grown up now and we are doomed to eternal boredom?

;_;

):

Hey _why: if you’re still around… What if you bequeath redhanded.hobix.org to a group of us Rubyists out here who could continue the tradition? A friendly takeover if you will.

...or should we try for a hostile takeover?

Die Mutter hat’s verboten ! Miau! Mio! Miau! Mio!