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In this post, I'm going to be profiling the github user who goes by semanticart, Jeffrey Chupp. He has a couple of really cool projects, and I would say is a little underrated based on his follower count. Lets go project by project:
Rack-roll. This is what led me to his profile in the first place. I was searching for rack projects and this came up. Basically, it uses rack to randomly redirect a visitor to your page to the now infamous video. This itself might be somewhat worthless, but it does show a simple rack app in action.
In contrast with that is is_paranoid. This does mass appeal as evidenced by the 176 watchers. This is similar to acts_as_paranoid, but with a few differences. That said, his Readme is a lot more informative than acts_as_paranoid's is. Another difference highlighted in the readme is "destroying is always undo-able, but deleting is not." It's pretty interesting that this package didn't get a message in this recent article.
The last project is "a simple wiki powered by sinatra" called "Hoboken." I've been really interested in microframeworks lately, but besides not knowing much about data-mapper or haml, it only has 9 watchers, compared to is_paranoid's high count. I might just wait this one out till either it gets a bit more traction or I get to know haml and dm a little better.
With this profile, we have project with a ton of watchers, and two that while not so popular, show examples of Sinatra and Rack. You can tell that he has a sense of humor and cares about what's hot, as well as what's useful.
Also, he had an awesome idea for how to design vanity page.
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