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
Guest hosts
Craig Box (https://twitter.com/craigbox)
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Adam Glick (https://linkedin.com/in/mradamglick)
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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

https://dhh.dk/
@dhh on Twitter
LinkedIn
David’s blog on HEY

Guest hosts

Craig Box

Subscribe to “Let’s Get To The News”

Adam Glick

SDT news & hype

Join us in Slack.
Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to [email protected] and Brandon will send you free laptop stickers!
Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube.
Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk!

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

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