David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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What they believe
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The achievements of Elon Musk's companies should have served as Sputnik moments for Europe, triggering deregulation and mobilization of capital.
Starship, Starlink, Grok, and Roadster. These should all have been Sputnik moments for Europe. Triggered immediate deregulation, mobilization of capital, and ambition to catch up.
x.comSaid 16 Oct 2026This on korrents
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Changed their mind The ideas in software originate with humans; agents build what people tell them to build.
Now I thought all the ideas would originate with the humans. They would tell their agents what to build, and off they went.
Said 26 Aug 2026This on korrents
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16 October
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Their words
Because investing in whatever Elon does next is not just a great bet, but the most inspiring and fun one too.
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Starship, Starlink, Grok, and Roadster. These should all have been Sputnik moments for Europe. Triggered immediate deregulation, mobilization of capital, and ambition to catch up.
15 October
13 October
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We should thank our lucky stars that Linus isn't part of the anti-ai nonsense that's ravaging the old Linux world.
12 October
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Few humans have the patience to match an agent in providing all the pertinent details in a bug report.Their words
Rare is the human who has the patience to match an agent in providing all the pertinent details in a bug report.
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The copyleft licensing regime was built for a world where software is scarce and precious that no longer exists.Their words
The entire copyleft licensing regime was built for a "software is scarce and precious" world that no longer exists.
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The price of obsessive performance tuning has dropped to near zero due to the agent revolution.Their words
One of the best part of the agent revolution is that the price of obsessive performance tuning has dropped to near zero.
11 October
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Capitalism is the greatest engine of growth and prosperity the world has ever seen.
9 October
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Podcasts allow for expanding on difficult topics, humanizing discussion, and making long-form substantiated points.Their words
One of the things I really appreciate about podcasts is how you're able to expand on difficult topics, humanize the discussion, and actually make a long-form substantiated point.
8 October
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Most domestic recycling efforts are counterproductive and require one to not value their time.Their words
Most domestic recycling efforts are empirically retarded, counterproductive, and require you don't value your time.
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The more these clowns keep calling all the cool shit "fash", the more they encourage making the connection that anything "fash" is cool.
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Third-generation immigrants from MENAPT commit more crime than their grandparents did when they arrived in Denmark.Their words
Third-generation immigrants from MENAPT commit more crime than their grand parents did when they arrived in Denmark.
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the code is good or bad whether it was written by math or by mind. Coder or clanker. Merge good code, reject bad code.
7 October
From one piece Redundancy is the engine of progress 2 beliefs · world.hey.com
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These stochastic parrots are getting awfully good at doing things nobody taught them to do.
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Technological advancement has always rendered some jobs unnecessary.
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What's good for humanity at large in the long run may well be temporarily tragic for the individual in the short run.
6 October
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18 September
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OrcaCyber Zero 1.0Their words
We're going to put their new OrcaCyber Zero 1.0 model to great use with our security and kernel work 🤘
14 September
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StarCraftTheir words
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
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QuakeTheir words
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
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UnrealTheir words
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
13 September
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8 September
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NousTheir words
Nous has some of the best damn visuals and brand wizards in the game. Absolutely perfect fit for where we're going with Omarchy!
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OmarchyTheir words
Omarchy is going to be the best place to get every major AI harness and tool, configured with minimal effort
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HermesTheir words
amazing out-of-the-box integration for both Hermes by @NousResearch and @steipete's @openclaw
7 September
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muse sparkTheir words
The 29(!!) automated translations of the Omarchy website are being powered by @AIatMeta's Muse Spark model running as a post-commit hook on GitHub.
26 August
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Their words, before
Start with Opus. I'd say start with Opus. It's the best frontier model.
Their words now
But to answer your question, the best model in general right now is Fable. The second-best model, in my opinion, is Opus 5.
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An open-weight model is already all anyone needs; it is as good as the frontier models.On changing their mind
When I was instructing the agent, I was like, "Oh my God, Kimi's just as good as these other models."
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The ideas in software originate with humans; agents build what people tell them to build.On changing their mind
I thought all the ideas would originate with the humans. They would tell their agents what to build, and off they went.
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Dell XPS 13 (2026)Their words
The XPS 13 has a great 120Hz screen (something you don't even get on a MacBook Air at twice the money!), a superb keyboard w/ backlighting (also missing on the Neo!), and weighs 20% less at just 1 kg with every bit as nice an aluminum chassis.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Dell XPS 14 (2026)Their words
As I said, I've spent months using an XPS 14 as my main machine. It's been so good I even gave up on using a dedicated desktop machine.
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Framework LaptopTheir words
I did try Dell's laptops a few years back, didn't like what I saw, and ended up spending a few years using Framework computers instead (they're still great too).
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Apple Pro Display XDRTheir words
Now I just run everything off the XPS 14, connected to an Apple XDR 6K 32" (nobody has yet managed to beat this, and I've owned it for years). It's a great, simple setup.
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Their words, before
Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.
Their words now
really good programmers are currently more valuable than ever because they're the ones who are able to get the most out of the AI acceleration.
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Their words, before
I love chiseling my code and the way I use AI is in a separate window. I don't let it drive my code. I've tried that. I've tried the cursors and the wind surfaces and I don't enjoy that way of writing. And one of the reasons I don't enjoy that way of writing is I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.
Their words now
I will now start any project I'm starting with. I'm starting agent first and that's a massive shift
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Their words, before
I know this from experience because I've been trying to build a lot of other businesses since. And some of them have been moderate successes, even good successes, none of them have been Basecamp. It's really difficult to do that twice.
Their words now
And I have no shame in saying that Base Camp was the best idea objectively in terms of a business that we've ever had.
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Their words, before
But I have come to realize that as a web developer, Linux is just better. Linux is just better. It's closer to what I deploy on. The tooling is actually phenomenal.
Their words now
anyone who's working with the web, who's working with Ruby, who's doing DevOps, they should be on Linux because first of all, that's closer to what we deploy.
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Their words, before
Mojito Island is a mirage. It always was. There is no retirement for ambitious people. There is no just sitting back on the beach and sipping a mojito for what? For two weeks before you go damn crazy and wanna get back into the action?
Their words now
I think that's the other big misconception that some people have about wealth is that they conceive of it as some sort of checkpoint. Like once you've made it, then you can just kick back in leisure as though that was happiness.
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Their words, before
It may no longer have as much economic value as it once did. I think that I'm quite convinced is true that we perhaps have seen the peak.
Their words now
So, I do think it is correct for the average programmer to think maybe we've seen the best of the golden days.
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Their words, before
The joy of a programmer, of me as a programmer, is to type the code myself. If I elevate myself, if I promote myself out of programming, I turn myself into a project manager. A project manager of a murder of AI crows as I wrote the other day.
Their words now
I have been hyper accelerated as a programmer. It's a different kind of programmer, but it still has the same affinity to aesthetics, at least when I'm producing Ruby code.
Nothing matches.
Beliefs
Korrents What they believe 729 beliefs, 10 changed minds — each backed by an exact quote.
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The achievements of Elon Musk's companies should have served as Sputnik moments for Europe, triggering deregulation and mobilization of capital.
Starship, Starlink, Grok, and Roadster. These should all have been Sputnik moments for Europe. Triggered immediate deregulation, mobilization of capital, and ambition to catch up.
@dhh on X Said 16 Oct 2026
Investing in whatever Elon Musk does next is a great and inspiring bet.
Because investing in whatever Elon does next is not just a great bet, but the most inspiring and fun one too.
@dhh on X Said 16 Oct 2026
Linus Torvalds is not part of the anti-AI movement affecting the Linux community.
We should thank our lucky stars that Linus isn't part of the anti-ai nonsense that's ravaging the old Linux world.
@dhh on X Said 13 Oct 2026
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The price of obsessive performance tuning has dropped to near zero due to the agent revolution.
One of the best part of the agent revolution is that the price of obsessive performance tuning has dropped to near zero.
@dhh on X Said 12 Oct 2026
The copyleft licensing regime was built for a world where software is scarce and precious that no longer exists.
The entire copyleft licensing regime was built for a "software is scarce and precious" world that no longer exists.
@dhh on X Said 12 Oct 2026
Few humans have the patience to match an agent in providing all the pertinent details in a bug report.
Rare is the human who has the patience to match an agent in providing all the pertinent details in a bug report.
@dhh on X Said 12 Oct 2026
Capitalism is the greatest engine of growth and prosperity the world has ever seen.
Capitalism is the greatest engine of growth and prosperity the world has ever seen.
@dhh on X Said 11 Oct 2026
Podcasts allow for expanding on difficult topics, humanizing discussion, and making long-form substantiated points.
One of the things I really appreciate about podcasts is how you're able to expand on difficult topics, humanize the discussion, and actually make a long-form substantiated point.
@dhh on X Said 9 Oct 2026
Code quality is independent of whether it was written by a human or an AI.
the code is good or bad whether it was written by math or by mind. Coder or clanker. Merge good code, reject bad code.
@dhh on X Said 8 Oct 2026
Third-generation immigrants from MENAPT commit more crime than their grandparents did when they arrived in Denmark.
Third-generation immigrants from MENAPT commit more crime than their grand parents did when they arrived in Denmark.
@dhh on X Said 8 Oct 2026
Labeling cool things as fascist encourages the association of fascism with being cool.
The more these clowns keep calling all the cool shit "fash", the more they encourage making the connection that anything "fash" is cool.
@dhh on X Said 8 Oct 2026
Most domestic recycling efforts are counterproductive and require one to not value their time.
Most domestic recycling efforts are empirically retarded, counterproductive, and require you don't value your time.
@dhh on X Said 8 Oct 2026
What is good for humanity at large in the long run may well be temporarily tragic for the individual in the short run.
What's good for humanity at large in the long run may well be temporarily tragic for the individual in the short run.
Redundancy is the engine of progress Said 7 Oct 2026
Technological advancement has always rendered some jobs unnecessary.
Technological advancement has always rendered some jobs unnecessary.
Redundancy is the engine of progress Said 7 Oct 2026
Stochastic parrots are getting good at doing things nobody taught them to do.
These stochastic parrots are getting awfully good at doing things nobody taught them to do.
@dhh on X Said 7 Oct 2026
It is no longer an economically viable enterprise to have humans typing out lines of Ruby, Rust, or C++ because coding agents have become so good.
Coding agents have gotten so good that it's simply not an economically viable enterprise going forward to have humans typing out lines of Ruby, Rust, or C++.
Over my dead pencil Said 6 Oct 2026
Software development is about to see an absolute bloom as the price of development plummets.
We're about to see an absolute bloom in software development as the price of development plummets and everyone realizes how much automation we still have left to do in this world.
Over my dead pencil Said 6 Oct 2026
Caring about the software is necessary to be excited about making it with agents.
You have to care about the software to be excited about making it w/ agents!
@dhh on X Said 6 Oct 2026
Tech layoffs can be both individually tragic and collectively bullish.
It's possible for tech layoffs to be both individually tragic and collectively bullish.
@dhh on X Said 6 Oct 2026
Tech layoffs free up talent to tackle new problems and opportunities.
Whether they're triggered by efficiencies or otherwise, they free up talent to tackle the next set of problems and opportunities.
@dhh on X Said 6 Oct 2026
Nothing will nerdsnipe a programmer like seeing a benchmark they believe could be improved
Nothing will nerdsnipe a programmer like seeing a benchmark they believe could be improved.
@dhh on X Said 6 Oct 2026
Much of the work involved in getting the best out of agents consists of product management, project management, and QA.
There is some great irony in the fact that much of our current work getting the best out of agents sits in product management, project management, and QA.
@dhh on X Said 6 Oct 2026
Most material metrics of humanity have never been better.
Paradise is not lost, the world is not ending, and most material metrics of humanity have never been better.
What on earth are you dooming about? Said 5 Oct 2026
Rumination will break your brain and render it unfit for the purpose of living.
Because rumination will break your brain and render it unfit for the purpose of living.
What on earth are you dooming about? Said 5 Oct 2026
None of the climate doomer nonsense Europe has wrung it hands about in the last thirty years has managed to curb the growth in global emissions.
None of the climate doomer nonsense Europe has wrung it hands about in the last thirty years has managed to curb the growth in global emissions (but it did wreck the continent's economy!).
What on earth are you dooming about? Said 5 Oct 2026
The entire software stack should be rethought from first principles due to the transition to agent-led programming.
We should rethink the entire stack from first principles given the transition to agent-led programming.
@dhh on X Said 5 Oct 2026
People into the age of agents will eventually realize Apple is a bad fit.
Anyone into the age of agents will eventually realize Apple is a bad fit.
@dhh on X Said 5 Oct 2026
Every developer needs an always-on AI machine
Every developer needs an AI shed: An always-on machine running on their tailscale network where the majority of their herdr agents are running.
@dhh on X Said 4 Oct 2026
Any programming language that agents can't write well out of the box is going to have a hard time in the future.
Any programming language that agents can't write well out of the box is going to have a hard time in the future.
@dhh on X Said 4 Oct 2026
The economic trade-off between language verbosity and programmer cost has changed.
That mattered greatly when expensive human programmers had to write the code. Now the math is different!
@dhh on X Said 4 Oct 2026
Well-functioning societies need the capacity for formidable violence to keep the peace, paired with the control to use it sparingly.
Well-functioning societies need the capacity for formidable violence, such that they may keep the peace, but paired with the control to use that power sparingly.
@dhh on X Said 3 Oct 2026
Regarding AI as just another tool is a category error.
If you're stuck at "AI is just another tool", you're making a category error.
@dhh on X Said 3 Oct 2026
The impact of AI is comparable to adding highly capable coworkers.
It's far more akin to hiring a bunch of extremely intelligent and capable coworkers with whom you might occasionally disagree.
@dhh on X Said 3 Oct 2026
Denmark should leave the ECHR until its articles allow deporting criminals, denying citizenship to malignant individuals, and full Danish sovereignty over who is welcome.
Denmark should step out of the ECHR until such a point that the articles are compatible with deporting criminals, denying citizenship to malignant individuals, and allowing the Danes full sovereignty to decide who is welcome and who is not in their country.
@dhh on X Said 3 Oct 2026
The rising generation is strongly 'based' after seeing what 'suicidal empathy' has done to their nations.
The next generation coming up is unbelievably based. They've seen what suicidal empathy has wrought upon their nations.
@dhh on X Said 2 Oct 2026
Germany has fewer road fatalities per mile traveled than the US
Germany has 2.5x fewer road fatalities per mile traveled than the US
@dhh on X Said 1 Oct 2026
Burnout comes from working too hard without enough meaning
Burnout happens when you work too hard with not enough meaning. "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how" — Nietzsche
@dhh on X Said 30 Sept 2026
Not every act of service will pay off, but if you keep doing good deeds, some eventually will.
Not every seed of service you plant will sprout and flourish, but if you keep planting, eventually some of them will. That's just the math of good deeds and good faith.
@dhh on X Said 30 Sept 2026
Lovely computers can have much more life in them if they are run on an efficient operating system.
But these are lovely computers that have so much more life in them if we only feed them an efficient OS.
@dhh on X Said 30 Sept 2026
Almost no problem cannot be solved by increasing speed, trying more options, and testing additional hypotheses.
There's almost no problem that can't be solved by going faster, trying more options, testing additional hypotheses.
@dhh on X Said 30 Sept 2026
Starlink is much better than current airline internet options.
the one thing that could make me switch to @united is Starlink. It's just so much better.
@dhh on X Said 30 Sept 2026
Planting intellectual seeds is how you grow change.
Maybe not in that moment, but planting intellectual seeds is literally how you grow change.
@dhh on X Said 30 Sept 2026
There has never been this much competition at the leading edge of computing.
We've never had this much competition at the leading edge of computing.
@dhh on X Said 30 Sept 2026
The only programmers really threatened by AI competition are those who insist the world hasn't changed much since last year.
The only programmers who are really in trouble with the competition from artificial intelligence are the ones who insist the world today isn't all that different from the one we lived in last year.
@dhh on X Said 28 Sept 2026
Code reviews are starting to fade in many places
there's no future where you're manually reviewing every line of agent code
@dhh on X Said 28 Sept 2026
Client-side image editing software like Photoshop and Lightroom will be obsolete by the end of the year.
And it's perfectly clear that no later than the end of this year, it'll be the end of the line for Photoshop, Lightroom, and any other client-side program like that.
@dhh on X Said 27 Sept 2026
The less one is required to dig into the details, the easier it is to see the big picture.
The less you're required the dig into the details, the easier it is to see the big picture.
@dhh on X Said 27 Sept 2026
Europe's constant decelerationist ('decel') messaging is insufferable for adults, and its effect on children is even worse.
The constant decel messaging in Europe is insufferable as an adult, but its effect on kids is worse.
@dhh on X Said 27 Sept 2026
Many people require a catastrophic scenario to validate their emotions.
Once you understand that the world is full of highly neurotic people who need a doom's day scenario to validate their emotions, it all makes much more sense: Malthusian starvation, pandemic, climate, and now AI.
@dhh on X Said 27 Sept 2026
There is no excuse for software to be slow anymore.
There's no reason a machine from ten years ago shouldn't fly like superman.
@dhh on X Said 27 Sept 2026
The opportunity cost of endless planning and contemplation has increased.
The opportunity cost of endless planning and contemplation just went way up.
@dhh on X Said 26 Sept 2026
Rationing AI tokens reflects a weird scarcity mindset when more tokens are easily affordable than one could ever use.
But it's all grounded in a weird scarcity mindset. I don't have a token limit! I'll never be able to use all the tokens I could easily afford.
@dhh on X Said 26 Sept 2026
Letting mentally ill drug addicts roam the streets is neither kind nor compassionate.
There's nothing kind or compassionate about letting mentally-ill drug addicts roam the streets like 28 Days Later.
@dhh on X Said 26 Sept 2026
Having critical code reviewed by humans alone will soon be seen as deeply irresponsible.
It'll soon be seen as deeply irresponsible to have critical code reviewed by human eyes alone.
@dhh on X Said 25 Sept 2026
The number of programmers worldwide capable of outperforming collaborating frontier AI models is negligible.
The number of programmers worldwide who can beat a collaborating pair of frontier models rounds to zero.
@dhh on X Said 25 Sept 2026
AI models solve problems, wield tools, and complete tasks they were never directly trained on.
Models solving problems, wielding tools, and completing tasks they were never directly trained on.
@dhh on X Said 25 Sept 2026
Getting stuck on the 'stochastic parrot' meme about AI leads people to miss the creativity and novel thinking in front of them.
Don't get stuck on the stochastic parrot meme. You'll miss all the sparkling creativity and novel thinking in front of your eyes.
@dhh on X Said 25 Sept 2026
Slop is an executable idea that is a feature suggestion wrapped in code.
Slop is just a feature suggestion wrapped in code that nobody has any emotional attachment to. It's an executable idea.
@dhh on X Said 25 Sept 2026
It is shortsighted to think agentic AI will stop before it reaches the lowest layers of computing.
Myopic to think we're going to stop the agentic drill bit until it reaches computing bedrock.
@dhh on X Said 25 Sept 2026
Many people seem to find honest enthusiasm alien, as if such a high could only come from drugs.
It amazes me how alien honest enthusiasm seems to so many people, as if that kind of high could only come from cocaine or other drugs.
@dhh on X Said 24 Sept 2026
Beliefs others hold too
Code reviews are starting to fade in many places 2 hold this
there's no future where you're manually reviewing every line of agent code
@dhh on X Said 28 Sept 2026
There is no excuse for software to be slow anymore. 2 hold this
There's no reason a machine from ten years ago shouldn't fly like superman.
@dhh on X Said 27 Sept 2026
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Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
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Uses Lazygit
Uses OrcaCyber Zero 1.0
We're going to put their new OrcaCyber Zero 1.0 model to great use with our security and kernel work 🤘
x.com 18 Sept 2026
Loved Unreal
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
x.com 14 Sept 2026
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Loved Quake
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
x.com 14 Sept 2026
Loved StarCraft
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
x.com 14 Sept 2026
Loved Flow84 V1
My favorite keyboard of all time is the @lofreeco Flow84 V1. But what if it was Omarchy? Would you buy one?
x.com 11 Sept 2026
Liked openclaw
amazing out-of-the-box integration for both Hermes by @NousResearch and @steipete's @openclaw
x.com 8 Sept 2026
Liked Hermes
amazing out-of-the-box integration for both Hermes by @NousResearch and @steipete's @openclaw
x.com 8 Sept 2026
Recommends Omarchy
Omarchy is going to be the best place to get every major AI harness and tool, configured with minimal effort
x.com 8 Sept 2026
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Loved Nous
Nous has some of the best damn visuals and brand wizards in the game. Absolutely perfect fit for where we're going with Omarchy!
x.com 8 Sept 2026
Uses muse spark
The 29(!!) automated translations of the Omarchy website are being powered by @AIatMeta's Muse Spark model running as a post-commit hook on GitHub.
x.com 7 Sept 2026
Loved Apple Pro Display XDR
Now I just run everything off the XPS 14, connected to an Apple XDR 6K 32" (nobody has yet managed to beat this, and I've owned it for years). It's a great, simple setup.
world.hey.com 14 Jul 2026
Liked Framework Laptop
I did try Dell's laptops a few years back, didn't like what I saw, and ended up spending a few years using Framework computers instead (they're still great too).
world.hey.com 14 Jul 2026
Loved Dell XPS 14 (2026)
As I said, I've spent months using an XPS 14 as my main machine. It's been so good I even gave up on using a dedicated desktop machine.
world.hey.com 14 Jul 2026
Loved Dell XPS 13 (2026)
The XPS 13 has a great 120Hz screen (something you don't even get on a MacBook Air at twice the money!), a superb keyboard w/ backlighting (also missing on the Neo!), and weighs 20% less at just 1 kg with every bit as nice an aluminum chassis.
world.hey.com 14 Jul 2026
Loved Intel Panther Lake
Intel really delivered with Panther Lake.
world.hey.com 6 Apr 2026
Recommends Dell XPS (Panther Lake)
Give the new Dell XPS series, or any of the other laptops shipping with Panther Lake, a try. I think you'll be as impressed as I've been.
world.hey.com 6 Apr 2026
Recommends Moonlight
The Moonlight client is available for virtually every platform: Mac, iOS, Android, and of course Linux. That means no need to dual boot to enjoy the best games at the highest fidelity.
world.hey.com 3 Feb 2026
Loved NVIDIA GeForce NOW
Anyway, I've been very impressed with NVIDIA GeForce NOW.
world.hey.com 3 Feb 2026
Mixed on Framework Desktop
It's an incredible machine, but in the day-to-day, I've actually found I barely notice the difference compared to a $500 mini PC from Beelink
world.hey.com 25 Nov 2025
Liked Starlink
If you're stuck on a rock in the middle of nowhere, and you somehow haven't discovered the glory of Starlink, maybe just stick to your old full-disk backup ways.
world.hey.com 24 Nov 2025
Uses Dropbox
Yes, I use Dropbox and GitHub to hold all the data that I care about, but the beauty of these systems is that they work with local copies of that data
world.hey.com 24 Nov 2025
Where they publish
Site dhh.dk Personal site.
The front door: a short bio and pointers to everything else — Ruby on Rails, 37signals (Basecamp and HEY), the books, and their racing.
Link verified 1 Sept 2026.
Blog HEY World Where most current writing lands. Has an Atom feed.
Essays, usually several a month: programming and Rails, running 37signals, Linux and Omarchy, Apple and app-store fights, and whatever argument is live that week. Has an Atom feed, so it works in any feed reader.
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- Redundancy is the engine of progress 7 Oct 2026 In the 18th century, 90% of Americans worked in agriculture to feed themselves and the nation. Today, it's around 1%. In the 1950s, there were hundreds of thousands of telephone switchboard operators. Today, they're all…
- Over my dead pencil 6 Oct 2026 Two weeks ago at Rails World, I told my fellow programmers that it's time to put down the pencils. We're not going to write the vast majority of code by hand any longer. Coding agents have gotten so good that it's simpl…
- What on earth are you dooming about? 5 Oct 2026 Paradise is not lost, the world is not ending, and most material metrics of humanity have never been better. Yet the endless, incessant dooming about the climate, the inequality, and AI is everywhere. We may have killed…
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- Endless execution 9 Aug 2026 The age of agents has brought us endless execution. Every idea, every hunch, every experiment is now within immediate reach. For people with endless ideas, this is nirvana. It's also the most fucking sci-fi thing I've e…
- I'm sorry, Dave 27 Jul 2026 Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has always been an incredible movie, but its value as a cautionary tale has increased exponentially since AI took off. The iconic scene with HAL 9000 refusing to open the pod-bay…
- Sitting down with Senra 26 Jul 2026 Jason and I have been making the same argument for over a quarter of a century now: Small teams can do incredible things when they embrace their constraints. And when they work in software or media or other intellectual…
- Wolves, sheep, and gypsies 21 Jul 2026 In 2012, the first Danish wolf in nearly two hundred years was discovered in the northwestern part of the country. Their numbers increased slowly in the years that followed, and by 2020, fewer than ten wolves were still…
- Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live 16 Jul 2026 The decline of Europe is not inevitable, despite how much Americans love to joke/proclaim that the continent is doomed to become an open-air museum. Sure, it's possible that things have to get worse before they get bett…
- Dell is on a roll with the XPS 14 Jul 2026 We've been buying servers from Dell since the 2000s at 37signals, but I was never too impressed with their personal computers. They either felt cheap or enterprisey to me. Like they were made exclusively for people who…
- The will to power will return 12 Jul 2026 In the 1980s, France started 43 nuclear reactors across 14 sites. On average, each reactor took just seven years to build. Forty years later, all but one of these reactors are still running, and they continue to produce…
- But Y 11 Jul 2026 It's no mystery to me why the Tesla Model Y is the world's best-selling car. As a total package, I could make a fair argument that it's simply because it is the world's best car. I'm no stranger to Teslas at…
- European Delusions & Danish Drones 19 Jun 2026 Europe is finally waking up from many decades of naive pacifism. While the continent is loath to give America credit, this is largely where it's due, as Trump has pulled back on blanket security guarantees. Well, that a…
- The Rape of Britain 17 Jun 2026 Rupert Lowe, member of the British Parliament and leader of the Restore Britain party, released The Rape Gang Inquiry yesterday. It details the industrial-scale sexual atrocities committed by predominantly Pakistani Mus…
- A pond of interesting problems 3 Jun 2026 The great joy of having built a successful business that employs a broad team of talented people is that I get to fish for exactly the kind of problems that most interest me, most of the time. Usually, this coincides we…
- Let the agents democratize open source 1 Jun 2026 The open source movement spent decades fighting for everyone's right to change software, through free access to code and permissive licenses to release improvements. But at the dawn of the AI revolution, as this mission…
- Basecamp Five 26 May 2026 I've been working on Basecamp for half my life, and nearly my entire professional career in software. The first code was written in the summer of 2003 when I was just 23. Now I'm 46, and we've just released the fifth ma…
- Celebrating computers at Omacon 21 Apr 2026 Do you see the same truth? That's how C.S. Lewis defined the essence of friendship. And that's what we gathered 130 people in New York to honor for Omacon two weeks ago. Seeing the same truth: A love of computers. Bespo…
- The malleable computer 15 Apr 2026 Open source promised that users would be free to change whatever code they were running. The reality, however, is that hardly any of them ever did — it was simply too hard. Now, with AI, it suddenly isn't. This is very…
- Panther Lake is the real deal 6 Apr 2026 Intel really delivered with Panther Lake. A 2026 Dell XPS 14 using this chipset with an IPS screen can hit just 1.4 watts of idle power draw on Omarchy. That's good enough for over 47 hours!! And in real-world mixed use…
- Basecamp becomes agent accessible 25 Mar 2026 In the past 18 months, we've experimented with a ton of AI-infused features at 37signals. Fizzy had all sorts of attempts. As did Basecamp. But as Microsoft and many others have realized, it's not that easy to make some…
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x.com @dhh Posts daily; most arguments start here before they become posts.
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- The amount of motivated reasoning required to square SpaceX catching rockets with chopsticks and not believing those engineers could pull off the Roadster is galactic. 16 Oct 2026
- X is a thorn in the Eurocratic side not just because it reveals the ground truth of mass immigration, but also because it beams American progress, enthusiasm, and wealth into eurobrains across the continent. Intolerable pincer movement in the long run. 16 Oct 2026
- Let's fucking go. 16 Oct 2026
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- Starship, Starlink, Grok, and Roadster. These should all have been Sputnik moments for Europe. Triggered immediate deregulation, mobilization of capital, and ambition to catch up. And that's just the work of Elon's companies alone. But what do we get? A hollowed out EU Inc 💀 16 Oct 2026
- France built 42 nuclear power plants in the 1980s. 42!! What an insanely inspiring country this used to be. 16 Oct 2026
- The purpose of the system is what it does. 16 Oct 2026
- What a joy to meet so many Rubyists and Rails users at #kaigionrails today in Tokyo. Great way to end a wonderful week in Japan! 16 Oct 2026
- We have over 400 people coming to the Omarchy Shenzhen Meetup tomorrow!! 16 Oct 2026 luma.com
- If your first response to the Tesla Roadster is "is that safe??", you've lost all sense of wonder. Safety is not and never was the meaning of life. I'd happily spend a few micromorts on a flying car. (Also, Tesla has a sterling safety record, so probably won't even need to). 16 Oct 2026
- I put $50,000 on this thing 18 months ago. Not knowing it was going to fucking fly! When it was already years "late". Because investing in whatever Elon does next is not just a great bet, but the most inspiring and fun one too. 16 Oct 2026
- The oligarchy distro is featuring code contributions from billionaires left and right. Love it 🤩 16 Oct 2026 oligarchy.fyi
- Excited to be keynoting at Kaigi on Rails in an hour here in Tokyo 🇯🇵✌️ 16 Oct 2026
- A ratio so bad that the poor fellow had to lock the thread to protect his... mental health 😂 15 Oct 2026
- Reminder: Omarchy doesn't use AUR for install or any of its recommended options. We moved off all that a long time ago. But maybe it's even time to drop offering AUR as an option out of the box? Our own package repository can just expand to capture whatever most people need. 15 Oct 2026
- We can fix everything. 15 Oct 2026
- You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor, He who has mingled in the fray Of duty, that the brave endure, Must have made foes. If you have none, Small is the work that you have done. You've hit no traitor on the hip, You've dashed no cup from perjured lip, You've never set the wrong to right. You've been a coward in the fight. "No Enemies" by Charles Mackay 15 Oct 2026
- Another week, another Omacom patron announced! 15 Oct 2026
- It was a privilege to talk Omarchy with so many enthusiastic Japanese users last night. This totally has that early-Rails vibe right now. Just a bunch of people who love technology and computers getting together to create something beautiful. 🇯🇵♥️ 15 Oct 2026
- Fortnite is coming to Linux!! We are already working with the folks at @EpicGames to ensure that @Omarchy is ready on day one with all the security requirements. Amazing what's possible when you nag @TimSweeneyEpic for years 😂 14 Oct 2026 store.epicgames.com
- I shit you not, Copenhagen has just decided that the 10(!!!) different sorting bins for trash isn't enough. So now they're adding an 11th, just for dirty diapers. It'll supposedly save 4.5k ton of CO2 🤯 14 Oct 2026
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- omarchy-giants-theme — Standing on the shoulders of giants — a warm sepia-on-paper dark theme for Omarchy 13 Sept 2026
- omarchy-zonda-zoom-theme — A cool, carbon-black Pagani Zonda theme for Omarchy 17 Aug 2026
- omarchy-diablo-dreams-theme — A dark, golden-brown Lamborghini Diablo theme for Omarchy 17 Aug 2026
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Books With Jason Fried REWORK, REMOTE, Getting Real, and It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work.
Four books written with Jason Fried, each with its own page at Basecamp: REWORK and It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work on running a company sanely, REMOTE on distributed work, and Getting Real on building software. Listed as they appear on dhh.dk.
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