DHH

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Father of three, Creator of Ruby on Rails + Omarchy, Co-owner & CTO of 37signals, Shopify director, NYT best-selling author, and Le Mans 24h class-winner.

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1Sep 24It's pencils down, people. Writing code by hand is no longer an economically viable skill for most programmers at most companies. But the future of making software has never been b32.1×3M9.1k9666k
2Oct 12The best part of Japan is the Japanese.22.2×2.1M47k2.9k1.5k
3Oct 4I've had agents implement and optimize the Campfire web app in Elixir, Go, and Rust. Yes, Ruby is the slowest. I didn't care about that when the pay-off was huge in terms of produc10.9×1M2k97752
4Oct 7African migrant who killed Christian Zedig, a Swedish police officer and father of two, at a football showing in Copenhagen this summer has been sentenced to 12 months in prison. H7.5×701k9.6k964812
5Oct 4Every developer needs an AI shed: An always-on machine running on their tailscale network where the majority of their herdr agents are running.7.0×653k7.8k3573.1k
6Oct 7How many pencils, how many humans, how many hours would it have taken to recreate the Adobe suite by hand?6.3×588k8.3k3593.8k
7Oct 8Thrilled to welcome @spacexai as a Founding Corporate Patron for the Omacom Foundation. That's $1,500,000 in @grok tokens for the maintenance and development of Omarchy. Maybe soon6.1×570k12k641649
8Oct 2Europe needs radical change. While there's still time.5.7×535k12k608592
9Oct 12Dario turned out to be right. Maybe even a little cautious. But look at the comments. All so very convinced that they knew more and better, and what an idiot he was.5.4×504k5.7k3091.1k
10Oct 5I can't believe that we're actually debating whether or why Rust — a systems level language meant to rival C/C++!! — would be much faster than the interpreted or GC-using alternati4.7×440k3.2k88375
11Oct 9Omarchy is now officially on X! Thanks to our friends at @spacexai 🙏4.6×430k9.5k274684
12Oct 5You don't have to commit your entire life to optimism, just try it on for a week. Start thinking "what if it all worked out?" and "what a time to be alive!". Then compare your stat3.9×367k8.1k7651.8k
13Oct 2It took the Reconquista nearly eight hundred years to reclaim Spain. Don't give me that loser talk that it's "too late for Europe." The next generation coming up is unbelievably ba3.8×358k12k8471k
14Oct 3Apple is going to make it even harder to productively use macOS in the age of agents? Bold move. Let's see how it plays out!3.6×338k2.9k87296
15Oct 14I 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 3.4×321k5.7k202321
16Oct 7This. People keep asking me for my setup. It's really just any harness, multiple agents concurrently, barely any skills, and using adversarial reviews. There's no magic sauce (or s3.1×288k6.3k2342.1k
18Oct 16France built 42 nuclear power plants in the 1980s. 42!! What an insanely inspiring country this used to be.2.8×260k12k648835
19Oct 7Here's my technique for adversarial code review if I'm driving from Codex: "Review this with claude". And when I'm in Claude: "Review this with codex". Models know how to to kick o2.5×230k3.6k1041.2k
20Oct 9Rather than using 5% of some big honking package like Microsoft Office or Adobe Creative Suite, you'll probably soon just ask your agent for the 5% you actually use. Bespoke softwa2.4×222k4.3k167317
21Oct 12One of the last big reasons for why some can't get on with Omarchy is about to fall. We really can fix everything!2.3×217k3.2k63165
22Oct 8Most domestic recycling efforts are empirically retarded, counterproductive, and require you don't value your time. Their real function is to fill the God-shaped hole, sized for pe2.2×211k4.2k324941
23Oct 4There are not many tech podcasts I'd rather listen to than spend a few hours talking to a frontier model about the latest developments in the car. Nearly as futuristic as having th2.2×208k2.1k43268
24Oct 6I sympathize with programmers who worked on systems they never cared about, for customers they didn't connect with, and took all their working joy from the mechanical act of turnin2.2×207k4.5k259572
25Oct 6It's possible for tech layoffs to be both individually tragic and collectively bullish. Whether they're triggered by efficiencies or otherwise, they free up talent to tackle the ne2.1×200k1.6k58199
26Oct 3I didn't realize that many estimates put the Mac at less than 200M active users worldwide! Much smaller than you'd intuitively think if you spend most of your time around tech peop2.1×195k3.3k41213
27Oct 5Last conversion of the Campfire from my token stash goes to JavaScript/Express. As with the others, I'm sure you can find more to optimize. But this gives you a sense of what order2.0×189k3801092
28Oct 9This is the first time I've actually preferred with drive as Codex as main and Claude as secondary for an extended period of time. Amazing how good Sol 6.1 is!2.0×189k2.2k55384
29Oct 4If your answer here is "frontier agents aren't good at writing Elixir or Go", then it only makes the argument worse. Any programming language that agents can't write well out of th2.0×186k4801597
30Oct 4The agents finished porting Campfire to Laravel and Django too. I'm sure there are optimizations that could be found there too, but the whole point is to get a sense of how frontie1.9×181k54121147
31Oct 3If you're stuck at "AI is just another tool", you're making a category error. This is not "same computer, but better". It's far more akin to hiring a bunch of extremely intelligent1.9×180k5k282548
32Oct 9My grail for Linux is finally here: A Lightroom alternative that takes all my classic camera profiles and presets. Just edited two family photos, and they came out perfect. FREEDOM1.7×163k4.5k1931.6k
33Oct 16I 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 gre1.7×162k4.9k110181
34Oct 5Keep your mind flexible! Rust has an edge at the moment, but Rauch is spot on: We should rethink the entire stack from first principles given the transition to agent-led programmin1.7×159k1.5k53259
35Oct 7Hard to know whether to laugh or cry.1.7×159k2.3k50137
36Oct 6"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.1.7×158k3k202761
37Oct 8Let's ship a Starship celebration theme in the upcoming Omarchy Quattro RS 4.5 release. Please link the best options in the replies here. I really want that insane launch shot, but1.7×158k2.1k6699
38Oct 8"Vance focused on Microsoft, saying no American company had abused the program more. Microsoft laid off 6,000 American workers last year and received about 6,300 H-1B visas", wow!1.6×154k3.8k121221
39Oct 6Don't tell me arguing online never moves a position. How very wholesome!1.6×154k5.1k166377
40Oct 12"The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive. It is a cheerful place", I couldn't agree with @daringfireball more. X is the place to be if you genuinely like techno1.6×151k3.1k141226
41Oct 13We should thank our lucky stars that Linus isn't part of the anti-ai nonsense that's ravaging the old Linux world. I'd hate having to soothe the cognitive dissonance this must prod1.6×150k4.7k141258
42Oct 12The entire copyleft licensing regime was built for a "software is scarce and precious" world that no longer exists. But watch the old guard cling to these obsolete rites like a pre1.6×147k3.7k189298
43Oct 8Campfire rewrite journey continues. I let the clankers run for a day, go through all the PRs that were submitted, verify the work, merge what was ready, and then ask it to bring al1.5×145k94930149
44Oct 9I’m delighted to welcome @namespacelabs to the Omacom Foundation as a Distinguished Corporate Patron, contributing $100,000 a year in compute that we’re plowing straight into ARM b1.5×141k1.9k56184
45Oct 13One more excuse not to switch to Omarchy has been stricken from the list: Traditional desktop mode with a dock! We'll keep killing reasons until there's very little reason not to j1.4×134k4.3k181391
46Oct 11It's very important that we don't concede open source to socialists and communists. Capitalism is the greatest engine of growth and prosperity the world has ever seen. Open source 1.4×133k5.4k358296
47Oct 9My friends at @modretro just sent me the new Codex edition of the Chromatic Gameboy that's ready for vibe coding games. How freaking cool this looks 🤩1.4×129k2.9k105396
48Oct 14Fortnite 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 pos1.4×129k5.5k265297
49Oct 4It's all fun and games when Rust moggs Ruby on performance, but show that frontier agents also write much faster Rust than Elixir or Go!? 😡🤬1.3×126k966791
50Oct 16If 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 micromor1.3×122k5.9k244209
51Oct 5"Not only am I uninterested in the company’s home device, I can, for the first time, envision a future where I don’t buy Apple by default. Indeed, this already happened..." Anyone 1.3×120k1.1k37502
52Oct 6It was almost impossible for a programmer who wrote all their code by hand to divorce their ego from the output. Now agents are delivering what decades of agile admonishing about “1.3×120k3.2k123239
53Oct 9Basecamp MCP is now available! Add it straight into ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Grok, or whatever you're using.1.3×120k36717114
54Oct 4Maybe this is sacrilege to some, but I think it's awesome. Microsoft Word and Excel running wonderfully through Microsoft 365 frameless web-apps on Omarchy. It'll be Install > S1.3×118k3k98346
55Oct 14Even the most over-the-top, on-the-nose comedian couldn't come up with jokes more outrageous than the British judiciary. (Perp is about to be released too).1.2×117k4.1k185263
56Oct 9I'd give up modern architecture for this!1.2×116k4k151464
57Oct 2This goes for makers of all shapes.1.2×115k3.2k150807
58Oct 9All I was using OBS Studio for was recording monologues. So just made a dedicated app for that for Omarchy. Will ship in next version, and we will drop OBS as a default as a result1.2×109k2.4k103245
59Oct 2Omarchy now has an official bug bounty program on HackerOne! The Omacom Foundation has funded it with $100,000 for bounties, and we've promoted @mdisec to Omarchy Core as our Head 1.1×106k2.2k145338
60Oct 11Dinner in Japan is 🔥1.1×104k1.8k3462
61Oct 7I still love neovim, but lately I've started just opening lazygit directly. That plus an agent is now good enough for 95% of the work I do.1.1×103k1.5k23311
62Oct 16Starship, Starlink, Grok, and Roadster. These should all have been Sputnik moments for Europe. Triggered immediate deregulation, mobilization of capital, and ambition to catch up. 1.1×103k5.6k333222
63Oct 9What an inspiring way to start the day!1.1×103k4.6k78208
64Oct 5"This is not the time to doom, baby. This is the time to bloom. Intellectually, spiritually, and productively. Put down your anxieties, arrest your neurotic impulses, and decide to1.1×102k2.6k195633
65Oct 8Third-generation immigrants from MENAPT commit more crime than their grand parents did when they arrived in Denmark. Almost as much as their second-generation parents. Assimilation1.1×100k2.9k188329
66Oct 15You 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 the1.0×98k2.3k121413
67Oct 12I actually really like the term "tech bros". Why yes, I do try to be my brother's keeper. And anyone who wants to advance technology, foster prosperity, and reject managed decline 1.0×97k3.4k143151
68Oct 15Reminder: 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 o1.0×96k2.2k75162
69Oct 12One of the best part of the agent revolution is that the price of obsessive performance tuning has dropped to near zero. So now we can just make everything as fast as computers can1.0×96k2k93403
70Oct 8Fascinating mind virus ripping through parts of open source right now. Listen, the code is good or bad whether it was written by math or by mind. Coder or clanker. Merge good code,1.0×95k3.3k158176
71Oct 16Let's fucking go.1.0×94k4.3k6579
72Oct 13I've already shipped two Omarchy PRs built with Wonder! Really impressed with how quickly they've caught up. Just need a bit more speed on max reasoning and a proper agent overview1.0×94k1.6k46203
73Oct 4"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it" — Upton Sinclair I think this quote explains a lot of the coping that's 1.0×93k2.4k109414
74Oct 6I've been reunited with the XPS14! Thanks again to the kind people at @Lufthansa_USA for helping. I'll take better care next time I'm jetlagged out of my mind 🫣🙏1.0×90k1.7k2378
75Oct 9Gliff will give you access to all your remote Omarchy boxes from a single app with tabs per server that streams over SSH using GPU acceleration. Incredibly useful! Will be part of 1.0×90k2.1k94722
76Oct 12My hunch is that people don't bother spending their tokens on projects that are openly hostile or restrictive towards AI contributions. Nor according to where people who say things0.9×88k1.2k35110
77Oct 9One 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. T0.9×87k1.6k79609
78Oct 3Peterson on the virtue of becoming dangerous is not just a plea for the individual man, but for the Leviathan too. Well-functioning societies need the capacity for formidable viole0.9×84k2.6k145652
79Oct 4NYT does brainrot better that skibidi toilet these days: - Are Shirt Buttons Sexists? - Why Won't My Co-Workers Acknowledge My Birthday? - Will AI Make Your Brain Lazy?0.9×83k2.7k122140
80Oct 6I love this. Nothing will nerdsnipe a programmer like seeing a benchmark they believe could be improved. We share the joy of a good RL loop with the clankers!0.9×81k8121474
82Oct 8What a bonkers seven weeks it's been for Omarchy!0.8×80k3.1k92117
83Oct 12You're doing something very right as a people to garner this much international love and admiration! 🇯🇵❤️0.8×80k3k13497
84Oct 13Sol completes the tasks less than 5 percentage points off Opus, but at less than a tenth of the cost!! $0.80 vs $10.53. Incredible performance from @openai 💪0.8×78k1.7k57198
85Oct 3Grotesque. 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 allow0.8×77k2.4k89111
86Oct 2Pivotal reading for critical times.0.8×76k1.7k99492
87Oct 8Luddites, as far as the eye can see. It boggles the mind how you can love computers and not be amazed at what we've made them do. Harness the intelligence bloom for the good of man0.8×75k2.6k132164
88Oct 9I've seen a huge uptick in what must be agent-powered email beggars, and what's fascinating is they either ask for $1 or for hundreds of thousands. No inbetween. Barely anything or0.8×73k643526
90Oct 6Maybe we can ensure full employment with programmers forever like this too? Every line of code must be manually reviewed before you're allowed to merge! Ensure that any agent use d0.7×70k2.1k6991
91Oct 15A ratio so bad that the poor fellow had to lock the thread to protect his... mental health 😂0.7×69k1.7k1840
93Oct 8It must be really exhausting to hate on Omarchy. I really would like to do the humane thing and give them a break from winning so much, but unfortunately we do have another lovely 0.7×68k2.4k3960
95Oct 8The more these clowns keep calling all the cool shit "fash", the more they encourage making the connection that anything "fash" is cool.0.7×65k2.7k8097
97Oct 6There 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. You could not have sold m0.7×62k1.2k36182
99Oct 12Agent contributions to Omarchy are not only very welcome, but I usually prefer them! Rare is the human who has the patience to match an agent in providing all the pertinent details0.6×60k1.5k4255
100Oct 13This was nearly a perfect one-shot prompt too. Only additional prompt was "Insert sig/text/date where the cursor is". Then just wrapped it up and sent it. What a time to be alive!0.6×59k1.6k38150
101Oct 12Every morning is Christmas now: I wonder what gifts Agent Santa brought to me in the night!0.6×58k1.8k4154
102Oct 5The unbridled enthusiasm will continue until moral improves.0.6×58k2.2k10181
103Oct 4But of course faster languages without any framework overhead are also vastly more verbose! Rust is more than 10x the LOC of the Rails version (and 100x as ugly). That mattered gre0.6×57k5131687
104Oct 7These stochastic parrots are getting awfully good at doing things nobody taught them to do. Generalization!0.6×55k1.1k33101
105Oct 15We can fix everything.0.6×53k1.1k2266
106Oct 7“As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.” Genesis 8:220.5×51k1.2k40192
107Oct 16The purpose of the system is what it does.0.5×51k83232135
108Oct 9Tesla Roadster fund just got another biweekly contribution from X. The tweet-to-supercar pipeline is real!0.5×47k1.1k1020
109Oct 7"Technological advancement has always rendered some jobs unnecessary. That is literally the progress! Freeing humans from a class of work that used to consume their time and talent0.5×43k60638103
110Oct 9Well over FIVE THOUSAND plugins now for Omarchy. And that's just the ones that have been published! Thousands more are truly bespoke and individualized creations just for the maker0.4×42k1.2k4349
111Oct 14An ode to technological progress, a multiplanetary species, and bad-ass rocket science from @SpaceXSI.0.4×41k2k4369
112Oct 13Looking forward to seeing everyone at the at-capacity @omarchy Tokyo Meetup tomorrow! ✌️🇯🇵0.4×41k9545356
113Oct 15It 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 technology0.4×40k1.6k7449
115Oct 16The amount of motivated reasoning required to square SpaceX catching rockets with chopsticks and not believing those engineers could pull off the Roadster is galactic.0.4×37k2k7245
116Oct 16The oligarchy distro is featuring code contributions from billionaires left and right. Love it 🤩0.4×35k7151888
117Oct 5"[s/The future/AGI/g] is already here, it's just not evenly distributed" — William Gibson0.3×31k3291930
118Oct 15Another week, another Omacom patron announced!0.3×30k663127
119Oct 16X 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 eurob0.3×27k1.4k5558
123Oct 16We have over 400 people coming to the Omarchy Shenzhen Meetup tomorrow!!0.3×24k3781815
125Oct 16Excited to be keynoting at Kaigi on Rails in an hour here in Tokyo 🇯🇵✌️0.2×23k4445112
126Oct 16What a joy to meet so many Rubyists and Rails users at #kaigionrails today in Tokyo. Great way to end a wonderful week in Japan!0.2×23k3572110
133Oct 6I love the conspiracy theories! I've been recruited by BIG TECH to push... ***checks notes***... RUST?? Because.. uhm.. AI scale?? 😂0.2×18k14003

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