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DHH

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DHH

@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.

Joined April 2008

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@dhh
Jul 12, 2025
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
Jul 12, 2025
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,
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@dhh
Nov 7, 2019
The @AppleCard is such a fucking sexist program. My wife and I filed joint tax returns, live in a community-property state, and have been married for a long time. Yet Apple’s black box algorithm thinks I deserve 20x the credit limit she does. No appeals work.
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@dhh
Oct 28, 2024
Tried to find the Rogan/Trump interview on YouTube but no matter what I search, it's not coming up. Would be beyond bonkers if they're actively trying to suppress it. Must be a glitch, right?
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@dhh
Sep 2, 2024
Never gets old to walk into this in the morning.
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@dhh
Feb 21, 2022
"I still can't believe that this is the protest that would prove every Bitcoin crank a prophet. And for me to have to slice a piece of humble pie, and admit that I was wrong on crypto's fundamental necessity in Western democracies."
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I was wrong, we need crypto
To say I've been skeptical about Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto universe would be an understatement of epic proportions. Since the early 2010s, some of my most ferocious Twitter battles have been...
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@dhh
Jul 27, 2025
Web app users would be shocked to learn that 99% of the time, deleting your data just sets a flag in the database. And then it just lives there forever until it's hacked or subpoenaed.
Rob Freund
@RobertFreundLaw
Jul 26, 2025
Soooo that was a lie
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@dhh
Feb 21, 2017
Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort on a whiteboard. I look code up on the internet all the time. I don't do riddles.
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@dhh
Sep 28, 2019
The quickest way to ruin the productivity of a small company is to have it adopt the practices of a large company.
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@dhh
Jun 16, 2020
Wow. I'm literally stunned. Apple just doubled down on their rejection of HEY's ability to provide bug fixes and new features, unless we submit to their outrageous demand of 15-30% of our revenue. Even worse: We're told that unless we comply, they'll REMOVE THE APP.
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@dhh
Jul 24, 2025
My wife just compared all this tech-adjacent extreme longevity focus in men to anorexia in women. A physical manifestation of anxiety and lack of control. And now I can't get the thought out of my head. Spot on.
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@dhh
Jun 28, 2025
Don't miss out on parenthood. I guarantee you that no amount of "personal freedom" is worth more than the existential delight of embracing your offspring like this.
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@dhh
Jul 1, 2023
Good to be back.
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@dhh
Dec 24, 2019
Oh for fucks sake 🙄. Don’t sacrifice your 20s – or any other decade of life! – on the erroneous belief that unless you work round the clock, you’re not going to be “successful”. The world is full of people who were all work and now are all regret.
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@dhh
Jan 28, 2025
This graph is causing a stir in the Danish political debate around mass immigration, and it's easy to see why. But I think what's just as interesting as the substance is the fact that Denmark actually collects the data so finely grained!
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