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A common scenario I see in web application development goes like this:

1. A developer is presented with an existing web application and is asked to add a new feature.
2. Lacking familiarity and confidence in the old code base, they suggest creating a new web application that both implements the new functionality and then easily replaces the old application.
3. The new application is built with the needed feature, but the re-implemented functionality from the old application falls short. Sometimes of user expectations, sometimes of being able to work with existing systems.
4. Instead of throwing effort at re-implementing old functionality, the organization decides to run the old and new applications side-by-side.

From the New York Times:

Ms. Arnold called Mr. Iger on Friday and asked him to consider returning to the company, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. In recent months, Mr. Iger has made no secret of his extreme disappointment with Mr. Chapek, telling people close to him that he was “devastated” by the downward direction that Disney had taken and that it felt that Disney was losing its soul.

When I work with folks new to Ruby and Rails I am often asked how to get started. While there is a plethora of resources if you “just Google it” one of the things that my friend Henry pointed out to me is there is a lot of noise when it comes to coding content. Many folks new to coding flood the market with low quality content that hides the good stuff. So here are my recommendations.

• Healy Announces Transition Team Chairs from Commonwealth Magazine. Congrats to my former colleague at MAPC Lizzi Weyant for co-chairing the Climate readiness, resiliency and adaptation committee with Gina McCarthy (!!!).
• The Healy Driscoll Transition Website has forms for submitting your ideas and resume.
• Layoffs.fyi is aggregating the tech layoffs. Rough times to be a software engineer.
• President Biden is Turning 80. Experts Say Age is More Than Just a Number.
• Making is_a? Fast was one of the most interesting presentations at RubyConf Mini.
• Welcome back Google Searchers. I discovered the URLs were breaking in Google Search because of this issue. If you’ve linked to my site in the past, please make sure to include the trailing / in the URL going forward.

Yesterday a large number of twitter employees, potentially a majority of the engineering staff, resigned. As far as most people are aware, a skeleton crew remains keeping the website alive. The question to many seems to be not if but when the site is going to collapse like a Jenga tower.