DHH
medium.com/@dhh · Personal blog · on HN since 2015
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and Basecamp co-founder, writes about business, tech and Rails features.
What HN saysHN commenters link his posts on Uber, Reconsider and Action Cable, and cite Basecamp's use of Action Cable in a Rails debate.
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Most-shared posts
- 1The day I became a millionaire6 people · 68 points · first shared 2015 · 9 comments on HN
- 2Reconsider4 people · 906 points · first shared 2015 · 154 comments on HN
- 3Deleting Uber is the least you can do3 people · 359 points · first shared 2017 · 120 comments on HN
- 4Did Dropbox and Evernote Heed the Lessons of Flip?3 people · 47 points · first shared 2015 · 11 comments on HN
- 5Don’t Base Your Business on a Paid App2 people · 7 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 6Regret-stergram2 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 7The impact of the late majority2 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 8Rails 5: Action Cable Demo (simple chat with Websockets)2 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 9Air quality matters but dont trust foobot on it e2df4234a7762 people · first shared 2018
- 10Small is not a stepping stone1 people · 5 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 11Service sunsets aren’t the least bit pretty1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 12Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor1 people · 1 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 13What I started dreaming about once I had everything I ever dreamt of – DHH1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 14Your likes, hearts, and flattering comments are bad for my brain1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 15There’s always time to launch your dream1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
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aaronbrethorst · 2017-04-19
> And action cable is a great example of everything that's wrong with Rails - kludge together a frankenstein solution to tick a feature box. I do not know a single production user.
The whole point of ActionCable was that it is being used by Basecamp: https://medium.com/@dhh/rails-5-action-cable-demo-8bba4ccfc55e
myblake · 2017-02-28
That happens to be one of the quotes in one of the related articles Medium suggests at the bottom that's worth the read: https://medium.com/@dhh/deleting-uber-is-the-least-you-can-do-30c06011…
shocks · 2015-11-05
I think it's a really good path to follow and would love to do the same one day.
You might like this article if you haven't already seen it. It's been doing the rounds lately. https://medium.com/@dhh/reconsider-41adf356857f
As for a term... I can't think of one apart from "business". :P Heh.
edit: Just noticed someone else already commented with a link to that article! Ha!
bjacobel · 2015-10-06
I hope DraftKings and FanDuel followed the advice of a post on HN a few days ago [1] and made (i.e., didn't re-invest) some money along the way. Something tells me they're going the way of online poker in the US very soon.
[1]: https://medium.com/@dhh/making-money-along-the-way-did-dropbox-and-eve…
jeffnappi · 2019-11-19
This was the article that gave me that impression iirc - https://medium.com/@dhh/air-quality-matters-but-dont-trust-foobot-on-i…
meesterdude · 2018-10-15
I know a certain framework creator that will be all over this - and has been vocal on twitter about it.
I went looking, this seems like a pretty good air quality monitor: https://www.amazon.com/AirVisual-Quality-Monitor-Accuracy-Particle/dp/… (~$400)
There are cheaper ones too; but do your research, as accuracy (and ideas about what constitutes accurate) can vary from manuf. to manuf.
https://medium.com/@dhh/air-quality-matters-but-dont-trust-foobot-on-i…
also apparently, a box fan + filter ain't so bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU
byoung2 · 2015-11-25
Im getting a 404. This link works:
https://medium.com/@dhh/the-day-i-became-a-millionaire-55d7dc4d8293#.a…
vuyani · 2015-11-06
"If the idea does not really excite at least some people the first time they hear it, that’s bad."
Reconsider(https://medium.com/@dhh/reconsider-41adf356857f)
duiker101 · 2015-11-06
I am quite baffled by all this. I heard of Famo.us, but didn't give it more than 1 thought. I thought it was just another framework, I would have never thought that they had employees, let alone that many and raising that much money.
I watched the video in the article, and I can't believe that people are throwing money at someone with a pitch like that.
I feel like everything about Famo.us is all the wrong things that were described in the Reconsider article that was posted the other day https://medium.com/@dhh/reconsider-41adf356857f