---
title: "Page 16 by John Hawthorn, 2026-06-01"
page: 16
chapter: "chapter 2"
chapter_url: "https://poignant.guide/book/chapter-2.html"
writers:
  - name: "John Hawthorn"
    url: "https://whysfoxes.github.io/whysfoxes_web/people/john/"
date: 2026-06-01
canonical: "https://whysfoxes.github.io/whysfoxes_web/entries/16-116676891294003992/"
mastodon: "https://ruby.social/@whysfoxes/116676891294003992"
image: "https://whysfoxes.github.io/whysfoxes_web/_astro/116679217704780779.kchVtvno_1WTcIO.jpeg"
---

# Page 16 by John Hawthorn, 2026-06-01

Page 16 of why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby, the paperback guest book. Written by [John Hawthorn](https://whysfoxes.github.io/whysfoxes_web/people/john/). It sits in [chapter 2](https://poignant.guide/book/chapter-2.html) of the book. Scanned, optimized and posted on 2026-06-01.

## Community message

> Chunky bacon!

So says jhawthorn.

## From the post on ruby.social

In red up the gutter of "The Red Sun Rises", @john boiled the chapter down to two words:

#Ruby committer, #Rails core team, Ruby Architecture team at #GitHub. Wrote #Vernier, the profiler a lot of us reach for when Rails gets slow. Makes Ruby faster for a living. His note here is 🥓 "Chunky bacon!".

A fox nods because that's the right answer.

## Image

![Scan of page 16](https://whysfoxes.github.io/whysfoxes_web/_astro/116679217704780779.kchVtvno_1WTcIO.jpeg)

## Links

- [This page as HTML](https://whysfoxes.github.io/whysfoxes_web/entries/16-116676891294003992/)
- [The post on ruby.social](https://ruby.social/@whysfoxes/116676891294003992)