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David Heinemeier Hansson

@dhh · 13 held · 4 changes of mind

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  1. 2 Jun 2024

    no longer holds

    Held this Ruby on Rails took off because its creator evangelized it by arguing its superiority against the competing alternatives.

    Then said And for a long time, I thought that's what had worked. That this was why Ruby on Rails took off, became one of the most popular full-stack web frameworks of all time, inspired countless clones, and created hundreds of billions in enterprise value for companies built on it. But I was wrong. It wasn't the crusade that did it.

    ↗Why I retired from the tech crusadesworld.hey.com

    Ruby on Rails

  2. 2 years earlier

  3. 21 Feb 2022 · held 11 months

    no longer holds

    Held this Cryptocurrency deserves to be dismissed: its problems outweigh its promise, and the trustless world it offers is not one worth wanting.

    Then said But wherever this leads us next, it's clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to transact that it's currently our best shot at protecting.

    ↗I was wrong, we need cryptoworld.hey.com

    crypto

  4. 2 months earlier

  5. 13 Dec 2021

    no longer holds

    Held this Open source projects should adopt the commercial software playbook to compete for attention, and that professionalization is unequivocally good for open source.

    Then said I used to think that this was unequivocally a win for open source. That to fight for attention with the commercial alternatives, we had to adopt the commercial playbook. Now I think it’s at the very least a mixed blessing.

    ↗I won't let you pay me for my open sourceworld.hey.com

    open source

  6. 4 months earlier

  7. 12 Aug 2021

    no longer holds

    Held this The complexity of a JavaScript bundling and transpiling toolchain is a bargain worth making, and the right default for building web applications.

    Then said Five years later, the facts on the ground have finally changed. I no longer believe that this bargain is worth it for most new applications.

    ↗Modern web apps without JavaScript bundling or transpilingworld.hey.com