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Noel Rappin
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Staff Engineer at Chime. Co-author of Programming Ruby. Author of Modern Front End Development for Rails. Also, noelrappin.com/about to find me. (He/Him)
![Tom Stoppard quote from The Real Thing: "“What we’re trying to do is write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might … travel … ([He] picks up the script.) Now, what we’ve got here is a lump of wood of roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat, and if you hit a ball with it, the ball would travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about shouting ‘Ouch!’ with your hands stuck into your armpits. (indicating the cricket bat) This isn’t better because someone says it’s better, or because there’s a conspiracy by the MCC to keep cudgels out of Lords. It’s better because it’s better.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6m2y4ofnhv5igwxmpm5gh4m7/bafkreifmmb445saz2dwxnvgw2673hmlwws43zprbraptowzyqy4ty3gcke)
