What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about Russia
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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16 dated positions, 2021 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what David Heinemeier Hansson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
The shading behind a date shows how recently it was said: full within a month, empty after three years.
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Our readingThe progression of compilation targets will continue down to lower levels of abstraction.
Their wordsMyopic to think we're going to stop the agentic drill bit until it reaches computing bedrock.
- 11 months earlier
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Their wordsThe web has conquered all as the dominant computing platform
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsIf that fully vertically integrated system suddenly is run by people with not quite as much taste as Steve Jobs with not quite as in tune sensibilities about everything from marketing to the vision of computing but instead by a logistics guy.
↗DHH discusses Linux and Omarchyyoutube.com 3rd of 9 in this recording
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsBecause Europe is weak, spiritually and militarily, in the face of Russia
↗Europe must become dangerous againworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsFrom the UK to the EU to Brazil, China, Russia, and Iran, political censorship is very popular
↗The social media censorship era is over (for now)world.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsUnless you accept the idea that all your passwords should be tied to one computing ecosystem, and thus make it hard to use alternative computers
↗Passwords have problems, but passkeys have moreworld.hey.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsFor a lot of people, Windows is probably the better alternative to the mac
↗I could have been happy with Windowsworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 8 weeks earlier
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Their wordshaving all your computing eggs in one basket leaves you mighty vulnerable to predatory behavior
↗You can own more than one type of computer!world.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 6 days earlier
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Their wordscomputing freedom requires that you don't put all your eggs in one basket
↗Switching to Android was easyworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 6 weeks earlier
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Our readingApple is arrogant
Their wordsI don't believe we've ever seen this level of arrogance from a major tech monopolist in the history of the computing industry
↗Apple actually lost a court case for once, but they refuse to comply in good faithworld.hey.com
- 11 months earlier
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Their wordsThere's no magic that can change the fundamental fact that if you need all the computing cycles of a computer, you ought to own that computer
- 12 months earlier
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Their wordsThe Russian invasion of Ukraine is at once reaffirming all the ills of social media and showing its utterly unique capacity to give a direct voice to anyone around the world
↗The other side of social mediaworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThe rally behind shutting Russia out of SWIFT, Germany approving both direct delivery of weapons and a dramatic increase in military spending going forward, the joint closing of the air space, and other new sanctions seemingly dropping every hour, does feel like it owes its urgency to the depth of public support the Ukrainian media campaign is fast activating
↗The other side of social mediaworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 weeks earlier
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Their wordsIt's a thriving, modern computing platform that relies on technical security measures to counter the threats to computing rather than hurried human review
↗The Mac proves Apple can safely open the iPhoneworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 10 months earlier
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Their wordsOne of the reasons I've never cared for crypto currencies is that the associated utopia of trustless society had zero appeal to me. I don't think the world is better off by erasing the need to trust in our transactional counterparts, so turning these transactions into pure computing always struck me as a regression.
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsApple should absolutely be barred from using their monopoly position in computing services to act as a debt collector for financial firms
↗Apple can brick your computer if you miss a payment to Goldman Sachs on the Apple Cardworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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