Hi,

My name is David, and I've been a computer nerd for about as long as I can remember.

I made my first website (or "home page" as we called them back then) in 1995, at age 12. I got my first job as a front-end focused Flash developer in 2005 and was introduced to Ruby on Rails in 2006.

Nothing has had a greater impact on my life as a programmer than Ruby. From 2007 onward I've been able to work professionally as a Ruby developer. At the time, it felt like an incredible privilege. Rails had just hit 1.0, and it was all still incredibly niche. Most people dabbling with Ruby had little hope of doing so for a living (at least not in Sweden).

After 20 years of using Ruby as my daily driver and loving every minute of it, I felt it was time to share some of this passion with the world. So I made this website as a challenge to myself: post a reason I love Ruby every day for a whole year - 365 reasons to love Ruby!

My hope is for this work to rekindle the love other Ruby programmers have for this language, and inspire those who are curious or even on the fence about it to jump in and give it a go.

I've messed about with a lot of programming languages over the years and learned a lot in the process, but somehow I always come back to Ruby. Home is where the heart is, as they say ❤️

Feel free to reach out with comments and feedback to @dbackeus on X or drop by the Reclaim the Stack Discord server and say hi!