Where’s _why?

Learning how to code, and searching for a legendary figure in the Ruby programming community who mysteriously disappeared:

“Hackety Hack solved the ‘Little Coder’s Predicament’: It was fun enough to engage a kid, and smart enough to teach her something to boot. But just a few months after launching it, to the astonishment of the community of Ruby programmers who treated him with something approaching messianic worship, _why vanished.

“On Aug. 19, 2009, his personal site stopped loading. He stopped answering email. A public repository of his code disappeared. His Twitter account—gone. Hackety Hack—gone. Dozens of other projects—gone.”

Source: Slate
Published: Mar 15, 2012
Length: 31 minutes (7,873 words)
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