I agree with you that Django is a great framework, but to be fair, at least a part of the reason why there are so many bad Rails coders is that there are more of them - law of large numbers. I've also met far fewer junior-level Django developers.
> ...the general "I did something clever and unreadable so I'm awesome" attitude seems to permeate the ruby-verse.
I don't think it's as pervasive as you make it out to be, I haven't encountered this much.
I gave it a try and it looks interesting, but I'm probably not part of your target audience. I don't know if it's a good or bad idea. I'll give you some usability feedback though based on my experience.
I put down a remark and a fake e-mail and was confused for a little bit. There was no submit button or any obvious way to inform the page that I was done entering info. I finally realised that I needed to press enter but this was not made clear to me.
The remark did not show up, but I noticed I was now logged in and ID'ed as my e-mail. I needed to enter the remark again before it showed anything.
I feel like it would have been more intuitive if the marks were visible even before my mouse hovered over the image. There can be an option to enable marks only on hover over but I don't think it's a good default. If your aim is to prevent the entire image from being covered in marks, then perhaps you could limit the number that show up (using some criteria like only the most recent X number of marks).
I can buy that he wanted to use an alias, but pretending to have done it all on his own and having no affiliation with any company was a bad move.
I'd like to wait for more info before burning him on a stake though.
EDIT: "I was ashamed. It was the first time going through a startup experience. After telling everyone I'd be going over to the Bay Area to setup a startup, it was hard realizing it had failed. Those months after were very tough and I didn't know what to do."
> ...the general "I did something clever and unreadable so I'm awesome" attitude seems to permeate the ruby-verse.
I don't think it's as pervasive as you make it out to be, I haven't encountered this much.