Short Ruby Newsletter - celebrating edition 100

Hello,Today we celebrate a significant milestone: the 100th edition of the Short Ruby Newsletter. It's been an incredible journey since the first edition was sent on July 18, 2022, and I'm thrilled to have you all along with me.

I will take a quick moment to describe this significant milestone in this post, but if you want to jump directly to read the newsletter, click on the button below

The newsletter now has almost 5,000 subscribers. This growth, which goes beyond my initial expectations, is not just a reason to celebrate but also a testament to the community's eagerness to embrace new ideas and fresh perspectives. Kudos to you! I am incredibly grateful for the encouragement I received along the way from my close friends (Adrian, Alex, Jakob, and Stefan), who provided guidance and feedback almost every week in our chat sessions.

I got the same level of enthusiasm and support from the wider online Ruby community. To my amazed eyes, I saw people willing to donate and support the newsletter, people that I had never met, and in most cases, people that I was reading their articles or posts and hoping that I would at some point be able to contribute to the community as much as they are.

RubyWeekly - the Ruby newsletter that I have read and still read for maybe more than 10 years - recommended in a couple of editions my newsletter. I found that inspiring, and I am so grateful to Peter Cooper for doing this so early in my project life. It encouraged me to keep going. My wife and my son made the most significant investment in this newsletter, offering me time and space to curate and publish it every week during the weekends. I am forever grateful to them!In the past months, Neenu, Srinath, and Claude joined me as content editors and helped me—out of their goodwill and personal time—to put the content on the page and to ensure that we keep publishing the newsletter. They offered me a great gift—of time—so that I could try to focus more on making the newsletter sustainable. This shows that in our community, we can all grow together. We can support each other and lift each other up. I heard last year (I don't remember where) the phrase, "A rising tide lifts all boats," and it became my driving force for everything that I am doing with the newsletter and for all the other projects that I have in mind for the community. If there is one thing that I wish for the next 100 editions (if I dare to hope to do as many), it is to see more of this encouragement of each other, more launches in the community, and more of you—dear reader—sharing your own Ruby experience. Be sure that your own unique perspective is valuable and I am here to provide you a stage to share your Ruby coding ideas to the world or to share your project that you built with Ruby to a wider audience. Thank you,Lucian

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