A latent gift from _why
When I first started hacking away at the Hackety source, I was referring to it as "software archeology." _why's personal coding style, his distaste for comments, and his advanced Ruby knowledge made fixing bugs a real treat. (I say this non-sarcastically: I love puzzles.)<p>I don't have a citation, but I remember seeing something where he said he never learned as much about Ruby internals as he did when creating Shoes. I feel the same way... doing more than just building Rails apps has made me learn more about Ruby than I would have otherwise, and I'm becoming increasingly appreciative of it.<p>Here's another screenshot of drawing stuff with the editor, and a color picker: <a href="http://imgur.com/2jEEm.png" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/2jEEm.png</a> I'm adding it to the article, but just in case you've already checked it out.