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
- If you’re still running Kubernetes, that is; there is no MRSKscape yet
Glastonbury 2023
- Guns N’ Roses
  - UK: the full set on iPlayer
  - Rest of the world: Paradise City (feat. Dave Grohl)
  - Appetite for Destruction
- Rick Astley
  - UK: the full set on iPlayer
  - Rest of the world (Beware: that link is technically a rick-roll)

Interview links

Basecamp
HEY!
Daily Rush
- Quake III Arena
PHP and Ruby
37signals and Jason Fried
Martin Fowler and Dave Thomas
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Ruby on Rails
- “Groovy on Grails”
1000 true fans
DHH on growth: “Exponential growth devours and corrupts”
Backpack and Campfire
Jeff Bezos invests in 37signals
Marketing at 37signals was literally a dumpster fire
- A podcast explaining it
“The Building of Basecamp” (and review)
David’s books:
- Getting Real
- Rework
- Remote
- It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
The programming books that meant the most to David
Fast inverse square root
- David’s best tweet
- AI can out-sorting-algorithm you anyway
The Celeron 4
David’s writing on leaving the cloud:
- “Why we’re leaving the cloud”
- "The only thing worse than cloud pricing is the enterprisey alternatives"
- “Five values guiding our cloud exit”
- “We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit”
- "Cloud exit pays off in performance too”
- “We have left the cloud”
HEY vs the App Store
Deft and Dell
MRSK
- Capistrano
- GitHub contributor community
- Maersk
Harmony remotes discontinued
The continuing demise of Reddit
- Who has two thumbs and 60 million dollars?
24 Hours of Le Mans
- 2023 writeup: “The Le Mans Centenary“
- Result table

David Heinemeier Hansson

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Special Guests: Adan Glick, Craig Box, and David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH).

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