David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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27 Aug 2026
Omarchy could reasonably switch its packaging system to Nix.Maybe Nix is like Rust: Amazing if you don't have to look at the code! I'm open to the idea that Omarchy Cinque could switch packaging system if I never have to look at nixlang, there are no ergonomic regressions, and we have full repo sovereignty.
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24 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.However good AI gets, we're always going to need people who know the ins and outs of what the machine comes up with.
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17 Oct 2024
Leaving the cloud for owned hardware cut 37signals' annual infrastructure bill from $3.2M to $1.3M without growing the operations team.For 2024, we've brought the cloud bill down from the original $3.2 million/year run rate to $1.3 million. That's a saving of almost two million dollars per year for our setup!
↗Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five yearsworld.hey.com
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16 May 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.Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift you've received is the software itself and the freedom of use granted by the license.
↗Open source is neither a community nor a democracyworld.hey.com
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6 Sept 2023
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.TypeScript just gets in the way of that for me. Not just because it requires an explicit compile step, but because it pollutes the code with type gymnastics that add ever so little joy to my development experience, and quite frequently considerable grief.
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8 Jun 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.I say, do or do not. Hybrid is a cop-out.
↗Hybrid combines the worst of office and remote workworld.hey.com
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8 May 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.Let's be real here. The modern world we live in was designed and executed from an office. It's a perfectly legitimate way of working.
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19 Oct 2022
Renting computers from a cloud provider is mostly a bad deal for medium-sized companies with stable growth.It's finally time to conclude: Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal for medium-sized companies like ours with stable growth.
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13 Dec 2021
Paying for open source is not a precondition of its sustainability; large projects can thrive while rejecting market-based terms entirely.Now, I’m not saying that there’s something categorically wrong with developing open source on market-based terms. What I’m saying is that it isn’t a necessary condition of sustainability.