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@dhh

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.

Katılım Nisan 2008
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This was one of the longest, most interesting conversations I've ever had with another human in my life. Lots of great podcasts go deep, but @lexfridman takes you to the bottom of the Mariana trench!
Lex Fridman@lexfridman

Here's my 6 hour conversation with @dhh, a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, author, and race car driver. This was a fun and inspiring conversation on everything from the future of programming & AI to the nature of happiness & productivity to the value of family, getting married and having kids. X limits video length to 6 hours. So this full convo doesn't fit (by a few minutes). So, the first 6 hours are here on X. The full version is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode highlight 1:21 - Introduction 2:32 - Programming - early days 19:57 - JavaScript 30:16 - Google Chrome and DOJ 38:03 - Ruby programming language 45:14 - Beautiful code 1:03:15 - Metaprogramming 1:06:36 - Dynamic typing 1:13:55 - Scaling 1:26:47 - Future of programming 1:44:18 - Future of AI 1:50:13 - Vibe coding 1:58:45 - Rails manifesto: Principles of a great programming language 2:23:11 - Why managers are useless 2:32:32 - Small teams 2:38:39 - Jeff Bezos 2:53:57 - Why meetings are toxic 3:01:43 - Case against retirement 3:09:00 - Hard work 3:14:38 - Why we left the cloud 3:17:48 - AWS 3:27:07 - Owning your own servers 3:33:19 - Elon Musk 3:43:01 - Apple 3:54:48 - Tim Sweeney 4:06:22 - Fatherhood 4:32:04 - Racing 4:59:08 - Cars 5:04:26 - Programming setup 5:19:35 - Programming language for beginners 5:32:53 - Open source 5:41:46 - WordPress drama 5:53:03 - Money and happiness 6:01:56 - Hope

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"The circle of the saeculum is both a prophecy and a roadmap. We're not supposed to live like this forever: weak, ineffectual. This too shall pass. We just have to make it out of the current Crisis alive." world.hey.com/dhh/the-will-t…
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The narcissism of the net zero nonsense is on the chart! Committing economic harakiri for a pitiful 0.1C reduction. I'd call it pathetic, but the truth is that it's pathological.
Bjorn Lomborg@BjornLomborg

Rich World Net Zero has a tiny impact Even if the US, EU, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, and the rest of the rich world go Net Zero by 2050 it will only reduce global temperatures by 0.10°C (0.18°F) in 2100 Still, it will cost $100s of trillions data.ene.iiasa.ac.at/ngfs, live.magicc.org, worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2…

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Fun (and functional!) new BC5 feature we just added to Card Tables today. We're calling it Wormholes. Here's how it works in a quick, casual 90 sec video.
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Narrative violation: "The type safety we gave up hasn’t been noticeable in any concrete way yet, especially considering our test coverage has never been better." But exactly what we see with Rails and LLMs. They're a beautiful and effective combination. avi.press/posts/2026-07-…
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@HSerunjogi The Y feels like its a decade ahead in overall build quality. But nothing beats the Plaid 0-60. For a daily, I'd rather have the Y, though.
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Ham Serunjogi@HSerunjogi·
@dhh It’s the total package! Obviously very different cars but curious how, in your opinion, the new Modey Y compares to the Model S Plaid in terms of which you’d pick as a daily driver?
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I've been a Tesla convert for years. Model X, Model S Plaid, Cyberbeast. But the Model Y we just got still blew me away! It feels so tight, so well built, so right. Unbelievably good car and good value. It sending an Aston Martin DBX 707 and Taycan Turbo S out of the fleet!
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@allinspmo It's magic. Unbelievably impressive.
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@dhh DHH what do you think of the FSD? I'm thinking about getting one and FSD is the only thing that attracts me
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@DBurkland @pduan Premium all-wheel as a 7-seater and the acceleration boost. White on white!
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@Slobodan88 I have driven Lucid. Got some real highlights, but the overall build quality is poor, the software is atrocious, and it's a barge compared to the Y.
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Slobodan@Slobodan88·
@dhh You clearly have not driven the Lucid, it will send them all out of business
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@_dlazaro Tons of room in the Y for three kids! We got the 7-seater version, so it's regularly loaded up with 5-6 kids. You should have no problem.
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David Lázaro@_dlazaro·
@dhh You have 3 kids right? Would you recommend it? Father of 3 small ones here, and not sure if the rear space is big enough (fitting 3 chairs is a challenge that only minivans and similar solve properly 😅)
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@trevorgehman No, just the Premium all-wheel drive with the acceleration boost. 0-60s in 4.1s is Enough when driving a 7-seater with kids 😂
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Trevor Gehman@trevorgehman·
@dhh Performance version? I just got one and love it
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@fastquant0 I have a Macan EV too. I much prefer the Model Y. Better interior, much better software, self-driving, AND it shockingly even looks better.
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fastquant0@fastquant0·
@dhh Try the Porsche Macan EV. Model Y sucks. No self driving, but feels good to drive.
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Chat control in the EU, VPN restrictions in the UK. All in service of ensuring that the natives don't dare critique the regimes online. When the Brits and the rest of Europe has finally had enough of this, it'll be an explosive moment.
spiked@spikedonline

Andy Burnham has confirmed he’ll restrict VPNs, potentially bringing Britain in line with China, Russia and Iran. Starmer’s censorship regime will be expanded and deepened. Big Burnham will be watching you, says Fraser Myers buff.ly/nlycxhq

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@Hiraweb3 It's built-in! It takes markdown in and out.
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Hira@Hiraweb3·
@dhh this is fire any plans for markdown support?
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Lexxy is the modern rich text editor for Rails. And now it has a beautiful site with lovely demo front and center. This is the editor we put in Basecamp 5. Such a big level up over Trix. From tables to syntax highlighting. lexxy.dev
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While Eurobrains crow about dEmOcRazY, the Uberstate is getting the hammer ready for those who share outlawed memes on outlawed apps.
@levelsio@levelsio

🇪🇺 Chat Control has passed 😔 They can and will now legally scan any person's messages, emails and photos you send without a warrant The way they passed this law when the majority of the European Parliament was against it will shock you: They waited until most EP members were on holiday so only a few were present and then created an "urgent" vote for it to pass it through There's nothing democratic about any of it and big powerful forces are behind this that can manipulate the EU for whatever they want Democracy in Europe died a bit today 😔

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"Europe needs its own Andurils. Not because it can't also continue to buy systems from the Americans, but because a good ally is self-sufficient, equally inventive, and armed to the teeth with a diverse fleet of awesome, native weapons." world.hey.com/dhh/european-d…
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Gaurav Dadhania@GVRV·
@dhh Have you, maybe, considered provisioning some cloud instances? 😏
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We were looking to add a few more servers for a variety of nice-to-have projects at 37s. Machines that in January cost around $40,000 now cost over $100,000. Econ 101 is working: We're holding off. Letting the capacity flow to the higher bidder!
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