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A one-shot plugin for his wife, in a language he does not know

One-shot a SketchUp plugin in Ruby, a language he does not know, for his wife, enabling easy 2D export from SketchUp.

How it works

  1. He one-shots a plugin in Ruby, a language he does not know
  2. For his wife
  3. It enables easy 2D export from her modelling tool

Why it’s worth knowing

Not knowing the language stopped mattering before it stopped him.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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