Co-owner and CTO of 37signals, David Heinemeier Hansson is more commonly known as “DHH”. Famous as the creator of Ruby on Rails, Basecamp and HEY, David has made a career of being provocative on, and on behalf of, the Internet.
Nonsense
ARMO’s relevancy feature for prioritising CVE remediation in containers (https://www.armosec.io/blog/kubernetes-vulnerability-relevancy-and-prioritization/)
If you’re still running Kubernetes, that is; there is no MRSKscape yet
Glastonbury 2023
Guns N’ Roses
UK: the full set on iPlayer (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001nbyk/glastonbury-guns-n-roses)
Rest of the world: Paradise City (feat. Dave Grohl) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHZTOvcElng)
Appetite for Destruction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appetite_for_Destruction)
Rick Astley
UK: the full set on iPlayer (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0ft6dj2/glastonbury-rick-astley)
Rest of the world (https://youtu.be/nsCIeklgp1M) (Beware: that link is technically a rick-roll)
Interview links
Basecamp (https://basecamp.com/)
HEY! (https://hey.com/)
Daily Rush (https://www.dailyrush.dk/https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1351124987084746755)
Quake III Arena (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_III_Arena)
PHP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP) and Ruby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language))
37signals (https://37signals.com/) and Jason Fried (https://world.hey.com/jason)
Martin Fowler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fowler_(software_engineer)) and Dave Thomas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thomas_(programmer))
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (https://martinfowler.com/books/eaa.html)
Ruby on Rails (https://rubyonrails.org/)
“Groovy on Grails” (https://grails.org/)
1000 true fans (https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/)
DHH on growth: “Exponential growth devours and corrupts (https://m.signalvnoise.com/exponential-growth-devours-and-corrupts/)”
Backpack (https://basecamp.com/handbook/05-product-histories#backpack) and Campfire (https://basecamp.com/handbook/05-product-histories#campfire)
Jeff Bezos invests in 37signals (https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests_in_37signals.php)
Marketing at 37signals was literally a dumpster fire (https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx8jyx/burn-away-2020-with-this-interactive-dumpster-fire)
A podcast explaining it (https://37signals.com/podcast/a-dumpster-fire-of-a-year/)
“The Building of Basecamp” (http://web.archive.org/web/20040618212122/http://www.37signals.com/workshop-062504.php) (and review (http://web.archive.org/web/20040703072150/https://gadgetopia.com/2004/06/29/TheBuildingOfBasecampReview.html))
David’s books:
Getting Real (https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real)
Rework (https://basecamp.com/books/rework)
Remote (https://basecamp.com/books/remote)
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work (https://basecamp.com/books/calm)
The programming books that meant the most to David (https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3375-the-five-programming-books-that-meant-most-to-me)
Fast inverse square root (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root)
David’s best tweet (https://twitter.com/dhh/status/834146806594433025)
AI can out-sorting-algorithm you anyway (https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphadev-discovers-faster-sorting-algorithms)
The Celeron 4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeron#Willamette-128)
David’s writing on leaving the cloud:
“Why we’re leaving the cloud (https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0)”
"The only thing worse than cloud pricing is the enterprisey alternatives (https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-only-thing-worse-than-cloud-pricing-is-the-enterprisey-alternatives-854e98f3)"
“Five values guiding our cloud exit (https://world.hey.com/dhh/five-values-guiding-our-cloud-exit-638add47)”
“We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit (https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-years-from-our-cloud-exit-53996caa)”
"Cloud exit pays off in performance too (https://world.hey.com/dhh/cloud-exit-pays-off-in-performance-too-4c53b697)”
“We have left the cloud (https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-have-left-the-cloud-251760fb)”
HEY vs the App Store (https://www.hey.com/apple/)
Deft and Dell (https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1661986828562444290)
MRSK (https://mrsk.dev/)
Capistrano (https://capistranorb.com/)
GitHub (https://github.com/mrsked/mrsk) contributor community
Maersk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk)
Harmony remotes discontinued (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/10/22377015/logitech-discontinues-harmony-universal-remotes)
The continuing demise of Reddit (https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754780/reddit-api-updates-changes-news-announcements)
Who has two thumbs and 60 million dollars? (https://observer.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/08/kevin-rose-business-week.jpeg)
24 Hours of Le Mans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hours_of_Le_Mans)
2023 writeup: (https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-le-mans-centenary-a0802694) “The Le Mans Centenary (https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-le-mans-centenary-a0802694)“
Result table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson#24_Hours_of_Le_Mans_results)
David Heinemeier Hansson
https://dhh.dk/
@dhh (https://twitter.com/dhh) on Twitter
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-heinemeier-hansson-374b18221/)
David’s blog (https://world.hey.com/dhh) on HEY
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