DHH

https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 His blog is a mix of zealous out-of-touch and unloved techbro shit and the most rancid far-right essays possible. Trust me, he's earned it. It makes me feel insane that people just skip over this stuff. The guy is openly citing "people" like Tommy Robinson yet he's still a popular and respected distro guy? I'm going to commit a crime.

David Heinemeier Hansson reports excellent battery life on 2026 Dell XPS 14 with Panther Lake https://world.hey.com/dhh/panther-lake-is-the-real-deal-4bd731f1

I really had no idea of DHH's politics and I read through the linked posts and, while I don't agree with a bunch of what DHH said, none strike me as excessively extreme. Worth debating? Sure. Worth protesting? Less sure. I will say DHH's post on Trump's return is like reading something from an alternate universe (https://world.hey.com/dhh/mega-a0f62cd4). What optimism was there in Trump's second campaign? Trump promised exactly what he's doing: retribution, tariffs, self-dealing and corruption, accelerating climate change, etc. I'm curious DHH's assessment of the past ~9 months and how it matches with his original "optimism".

He is not stupid enough to say that directly bit it's one google away to find stuff like. I follow him on Twitter and guy is a bully and has opinions about stuff he has 0 knowledge about. https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-social-media-censorship-era-is-over-for-…

Inviting discussion through underspecified warnings or appeal to feelings of superiority, safety/caution or "best practices" is a very pervasive issue in software. I admit I did not read the article. But I have done so before I guess, I remember the headline. The headline is enough to provoke thought. See https://world.hey.com/dhh/merchants-of-complexity-4851301b And after clicking, I see, this article is very recent. Strange...

I really enjoyed this read. Great connections. I’m also impressed at how much suffering was saved by that E39 error instead of a backed up laundry room full of waste water. Washing machines are cool. A couple of other good perspectives on software estimation: https://world.hey.com/dhh/software-estimates-have-never-worked-and-nev… https://softwareforgood.com/estimates-lies/

Thought this was a good read. I'm currently coming back from 8 weeks paternity and struggling to get back into the hyperfocus I had entered a couple week prior to taking the leave. I got months of work done in weeks, as mentioned in the referenced essay [0]. Hyperfocus like that is something I wish I had more control over, but I do agree that my headspace is very different after working very, very little for 8 weeks, instead spending so much of that time with my wife and kids; I find myself leaving work early right now. [0]: https://world.hey.com/dhh/inspiration-is-perishable-f2c8652e

If you become a sysadmin, not only do you save $100 per month but you can also add it to your CV. DHH (Rails founder) thinks you should dare to connect a server to the internet: https://world.hey.com/dhh/dare-to-connect-a-server-to-the-internet-01d… (I already submitted this once, but given the discussion here, I think it's worth posting again, if my rate limit allows it)

DHH has talked about this the last few months. He now recommends running locally on your own computer instead of server. CPUs are so fast now. https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-re-moving-continuous-integration-back-to-…

At 14 man I wish you the best of luck I truely do. And don’t give up. https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-gift-of-ambition-e7b41ffc

From an outside perspective, I see that most of them are proud of the European values and how they permeate their societies since integration with other countries 'till a more friendly aspect from the richer countries (Central Europe) to the less fortunate ones (Eastern Europeans). But as soon some of the traits of those countries starts to appear in a slightly fashion, those friendly societies will fight tooth and nail to establish their values even over the European ones (e.g. social integration, education, etc). DHH made a great summary over it [1]. For instance, in some parts of Central Europe, if you're speaking a different language with your child on a train people feel entitled to ask you to stop and speak their language since you live there. I lived in US for a while and I never have seen that. [1] - https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-reality-of-the-danish-fairytale-78069fbf

Worth having a look at DHH's leadership on this issue: https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0

Basecamp is the best reading I've found on this. https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0

Here's a couple of blogs off the top of my head that I like. https://gwern.net - This is just a fantastic nerdy blog on so many topics. https://world.hey.com/dhh - I don't always agree with him and he doesn't always go super in-depth into deeply nerdy topics, but I appreciate his clear writing style and willingness to go a bit against the grain and ruffle a few feathers. Truth be told though, it looks like a lot of the more talented people are focusing more on things like YouTube for communicating about technical topics. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

They say they will save $7 million over 5 years with this migration. Sounds worth it to me. https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-years-from-our…

The cloud is great when you are starting out, but at scale you are going to hemorrhage money. This is why it's dangerous to tie yourself to all those cloud "toys" and then rapidly expand. If I just want to have my own little home page, a micro EC2 instance will do just fine - I don't want to go to a colocation for that. Once you are at scale, you need to get out of the cloud. I agree with DHH on this. https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0

I have very strong, very mixed feelings about Musk and am not sure if he is a great businessmen or not. However, I did appreciate DHH's blog post about Job's returning to Apple. Massive layoffs and Jobs admitted that mistakes will be made, but at least decisions are being made. Short worthwhile read: https://world.hey.com/dhh/apple-fired-4-100-when-steve-jobs-returned-i… Edit: auto-correct typo

Yes, Especially for a solo founder, Rails is an effective and powerful choice. It scales from "Hello World" to IPO and allows you to do 10x the work while focusing on your users rather than boilerplate and plumbing. Its also trusted by some of the biggest tech platforms such as GitHub and Shopify. The creator of rails recently wrote a great article on how Rails is the perfect choice for solo founders here: https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-one-person-framework-711e6318 I also recently wrote a short article about how enjoyable it is to work in Ruby and Rails here: https://jmarchello.com/a-love-letter-to-ruby-and-rails If you have any questions or want to talk more about learning Rails, DM me on twitter @j_marchello. I'd love to help.

If it's not worth it to you don't work on it. If you do OSS because you want others to use your software but you're afraid to charge for it then just stop. Of course you'll be disappointed. The whole point of OSS is you put it out there, others use it, fork it, add to it, commit back, and because of pooled efforts now the software is better. No one owes anyone anything beyond the terms of the license. DHH recently wrote a great article about OSS which seemed to be inspired by recent discussions: https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-won-t-let-you-pay-me-for-my-open-source-d7… The best way to get paid for OSS is to use it for a real product. Ie. Make something beyond just code.

I love reading DHH's posts on Hey - e.g. https://world.hey.com/dhh/rails-7-will-have-three-great-answers-to-jav… That's what I call minimal. Unfortunately it's linked to Hey email service which I'm not using

https://fly.io/blog/phoenix-moves-to-esbuild-for-assets/ https://world.hey.com/dhh/rails-7-will-have-three-great-answers-to-jav…

> The long-running existence of the "Best Names Ever" list that [employee 1] described yesterday represents a serious, collective, and repeated failure at Basecamp. One that we need to learn from together by transparently tracing its origin and history. > Not only was it disrespectful to our customers, and a breach of basic privacy expectations, but it was also counter to creating an inclusive workplace. Nobody should think that maintaining such a list is okay or sanctioned behavior here. > Furthermore, Jason and I should have caught this list. We are ultimately responsible for setting the tone of what's acceptable behavior at Basecamp, and in this instance we didn't. I'm sorry. https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e

> Yesterday, we offered everyone at Basecamp an option of a severance package worth up to six months salary for those who've been with the company over three years, and three months salary for those at the company less than that. No hard feelings, no questions asked. For those who cannot see a future at Basecamp under this new direction, we'll help them in every which way we can to land somewhere else. https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e

DHH stated it in his "Let it all out" follow up post. > Yesterday, we offered everyone at Basecamp an option of a severance package worth up to six months salary for those who've been with the company over three years, and three months salary for those at the company less than that. No hard feelings, no questions asked. For those who cannot see a future at Basecamp under this new direction, we'll help them in every which way we can to land somewhere else. https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e

In a follow-up on DHH's blog[0], he says: > Note that we will continue to engage in politics that directly relate to our business or products. This means topics like antitrust, privacy, employee surveillance. If you're in doubt as to whether something falls within those lines or not, please, again, reach out for guidance. I would read this to mean that political issues that are tied to business decisions (like pay equality and recruiting practices) are in-bounds for discussion at work. [0]: https://world.hey.com/dhh/basecamp-s-new-etiquette-regarding-societal-…

DHH also famously describe why and how they are leaving the cloud https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0 I'm not a fan boy of DHH but I really like his critical thinking about the status quo. I'm not able to leave the cloud or I better phrase it as it's too comfortable right now. I really wanted to leave redis behind me as it's mostly a hidden part of Rails nothing I use directly but often I have to pay for it "in the cloud" I quickly hit an issue with the family of Solid features: Documentation doesn't really cover the case "inside your existing application" (at least when I looked into it shortly after Rails 8 was released). Being in the cloud (render.com, fly.io and friends) I had to create multiple DBs, one for each Solid feature. That was not acceptable as you usually pay per service/DB not per usage - similar how you have to pay for Redis. This was a great motivation to research the cloud space once again and then I found Railway. You pay per usage. So I've right now multiple DBs, one for each Solid feature. And on top multiple environments multiplying those DBs and I pay like cents for that part of the app while it's not really filled. Of course in this setup I would also pay cents for Redis but it's still good to see a less complex landscape in my deployment environment. Long story short, while try to integrate SolidQueue myself I found Railway. Deployment are fun again with that! Maybe that helps someone today as well.

Agreed. Lua is older though. It was created in 1993. mruby was created in 2012. I have only two gripes with regard to mruby. 1) The primary users are C hackers. That's ok, but it means it also leaves out many other people. (Lua has the same problem of course.) 2) Documentation. This is something that really plagues about 90% of ruby projects. And it's not getting any better. It is as if in ruby, only 10% care about documentation - at best. Look at rack, opal, wasm for ruby - the documentation is TOTAL TRASH. Non-existing; look at rack. What a joke. Now that ruby is following perl in its extinction path (sorry, the numbers are hard and real, there is no way to deny it), the ruby community should instead try to reverse that trend. Instead you see mega-corporations such as shopify pwning the remaining ecosystem and cannibalizing on it or people such as DHH rant about how Europe is collapsing (what the actual ... https://world.hey.com/dhh/europe-is-weak-and-delusional-but-not-doomed… - we need an alternative to rails, how can anyone still work with DHH? Lo and behold, another shopify guy. The message is so clear for everyone to see now). None of this will of course revitalize ruby. Without an active AND actively growing community, ruby is set to die. I say this as someone who still uses ruby daily; I am tired of the "rumours of ruby dying are exaggerated". Yes, the rumours are exaggerated - but they are not rumours. The numbers are solid. TIOBE alone, with its 10000…

Since you've been out of the loop, here are a couple of things from DHH's controversial blog post. https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 > London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late '90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Brits. with a link to the Wikipedia page on ethnic groups in London showing that there aren't as many white people in London as there used to be. His usage of "native Brits" dog whistle might be silent, but choosing to link to that particular Wikipedia page is a bit telling. Further into DHH's blog post, he describes Tommy Robinson's organized marches as being "normal everyday Brits." Freedom of association and all that, but White supremacist, xenophobic marches aren't exactly my idea of "normal everyday Brits" activity. He also attempts to equate these marches with legitimate free speech cases like Graham Linehan, trying to make it all seem like reasonable pushback, as if this is just another historical moment of the isles being "invaded". Naturally, DHH can't help himself, so 701 words into the article we get a lovely link to articles about Pakistani rape gangs. We're not dealing with subtle implications anymore.