David Heinemeier Hansson

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If you can prompt it, Omarchy can make it happen. It's a genie in a box! 1 Sept
Our Omarchy oligarchs don't just send a million for the cause, they also send pull requests for Quattro! Bad ass, @brian_armstrong 🤘 1 Sept
Omarchy Music Contest 001 has a winner ($500): Omarchy Oligarchy (Synthwave Mix) by @lookin77777!! And I added a runner-up prize ($250) for Still Licensed by @… 1 Sept
I really hope the old guard updates their priors soon. GNOME has done so much for Linux over the years. But if they insist on staying anti-AI, they're simply n… 1 Sept
These are unbelievably awesome! I can't wait for these to be part of Omarchy 4.1 🤩 1 Sept
The day you give up on your dreams, you might as well just give up! (Look under OS 😂) 1 Sept
Because why not? STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED! 1 Sept
Only on X can you be one mention away from the benevolent oligarchy funding your Linux distribution, and make a feature request 😄 1 Sept
Really nice walk-through of Omarchy by Microsoft's Dan Wahlin. Super cool to see him use Copilot for all his agentic alterations! Omarchy supports every major… 1 Sept
If you aren't able to install Omarchy just yet, you can now enjoy its amazing screensaver in the browser! Awesome work by @hicsfh 👏 1 Sept
It took the first podcast with Lex over a year to cross a million views. It's taken the second just 5 days. Acceleration is everywhere! Also, we really shouldn… 1 Sept
We can fix everything. And as we do, the market share will follow. Linux is simply the superior platform for a beautiful, fun & agentic computer. 1 Sept
The interview with @lexfridman has already passed a million views in just 5 days! I think people were ready for some white-pill optimism about agents and AI. 1 Sept
Love when all my worlds overlap: Rails, Racing & Omarchy. Small Venn overlap that touches them all, but it's there! 1 Sept
The only designation the EU needs to be worried about is a continent left behind. You cannot regulate your way into prosperity and progress like this. 1 Sept
Best way to fly. 1 Sept
Omarchy will soon have a region switcher, so it's fully usable within China without needing a VPN. The Omarchy China group is moving very fast. We also now hav… 1 Sept
We just kicked off Omarchy Kids. Working on a special wholesome and safe way to get children started with Omarchy. Harris is organizing. Get in touch! 1 Sept
Smart thinking to frontrun the Apple resale market on the high end 😄 1 Sept
Kill your darlings! The fact that it's "by DHH" is opinionated enough. Lean into the future, and the future is Beautiful, Fun & Agentic Linux. 1 Sept
Returning fire to a troll costs you your reputation and costs the troll nothing, because the audience judges you and not them. 29 Aug
A formal code of conduct is not worth adopting, because those became struggle-session processes; courtesy without one is what actually wins. 29 Aug
Omarchy could reasonably switch its packaging system to Nix. 27 Aug
Omarchy running on 2011 X220 2GB RAM (with room to spare) 22 Aug
omarchy-zonda-zoom-theme — A cool, carbon-black Pagani Zonda theme for Omarchy 17 Aug
omarchy-diablo-dreams-theme — A dark, golden-brown Lamborghini Diablo theme for Omarchy 17 Aug
omarchy-giants-theme — Standing on the shoulders of giants — a warm sepia-on-paper dark theme for Omarchy 16 Aug
Omarchy Quattro 14 Aug
Endless execution 9 Aug
I'm sorry, Dave 27 Jul
Sitting down with Senra 26 Jul
Wolves, sheep, and gypsies 21 Jul
Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live 16 Jul
Dell is on a roll with the XPS 14 Jul
The will to power will return 12 Jul
But Y 11 Jul
European Delusions & Danish Drones 19 Jun
The Rape of Britain 17 Jun
A pond of interesting problems 3 Jun
Let the agents democratize open source 1 Jun
Basecamp Five 26 May
Basecamp Five's Keyboard Combos 25 May
Celebrating computers at Omacon 21 Apr
Omacon Keynote 21 Apr
The malleable computer 15 Apr
Panther Lake is the real deal 6 Apr
Basecamp becomes agent accessible 25 Mar
Denmark desperately needs more inequality 23 Mar
ONCE (Again) 16 Mar
ONCE: Run multi dockerized web apps on single server 16 Mar
Omacon comes to New York 18 Feb
Tmux comes to the next Omarchy 17 Feb
Shopify LMP2 / Rolex 24 / Daytona 2026 9 Feb
Omarchy 3 6 Nov 2025
Doing More Than Just the Bare Minimum 6 Oct 2025
It's not the time it's the attention 6 Oct 2025
Negative Visualization 4 Oct 2025
Libertas, Proprietas, Pietas 5 Sept 2025
Omarchy 2.0 26 Aug 2025
CVs are full of shit 18 Aug 2025
Omarchy (micro) forks Chromium! 14 Aug 2025
An executive's empty calendar is a feature, not laziness: availability is what the job requires. 31 Jul 2025
Forcing Google to divest Chrome would damage the web, even though Google should not be allowed to rig the online ad market. 28 Apr 2025
However capable AI coding tools become, the industry will still need junior programmers, because someone must be able to vet what the machine produces. 24 Apr 2025
Universal basic income is at most a small part of the answer to AI-driven job loss. 7 Apr 2025
Leaving the cloud for owned hardware cut 37signals' annual infrastructure bill from $3.2M to $1.3M without growing the operations team. 17 Oct 2024
Using an open source project confers no right to a say in its direction; open source is run by those who do the work, not by democratic vote of its users. 16 May 2024
TypeScript's type annotations cost more in friction than they return in safety, and a front-end framework is better off written in plain JavaScript. 6 Sept 2023
Hybrid work is the worst of both arrangements: it destroys the main benefits of remote work while also failing to deliver the benefits of an office. 8 Jun 2023
Requiring people to work from an office is a legitimate way to run a company, and remote-work advocates are wrong to claim moral superiority over it. 8 May 2023
Renting computers from a cloud provider is mostly a bad deal for medium-sized companies with stable growth. 19 Oct 2022
textmate-rails-bundle — My stripped down Rails bundle for TextMate 2 18 Jun 2022
Paying for open source is not a precondition of its sustainability; large projects can thrive while rejecting market-based terms entirely. 13 Dec 2021
conductor 16 Sept 2010
asset-hosting-with-minimum-ssl — Rails plugin for picking a non-ssl asset host as often as possible 27 Nov 2008