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i'd say _why and zedshaw. _why was a true hacker guy. he really dove into stuff. i liked the idea of writing a bytecode convertor to run ruby apps on google app engine, and tons of things besides that one. Zed writes nice posts. what's cool is that even though he gets annoyed easily and writes quite a bit of angry posts, he seems to care about people who start, and explains things to people. that's nice.

I like the way Ezra Zygmuntowicz explains stuff, and enjoy reading his posts and listening to records of his speeches.

Same thing about Michael Klishin, who used to be in Rails Core. Actually, that's the guy whom i learned from the most. I had a pleasure to meet him in person, and he did teach me tons of stuff. Not specifically-technical, more of vision-sharing things. Those things did influence me as a technical person a lot.

Same thing about Yehuda Katz. I like the way he thinks and ideas he comes up with (most of time).

So, I'd divide it in 2 parts: technical stuff | vision / point of view.