Reading up on David Heinemeier Hansson
18 deep · digging since dec 20, 25
- Thinking in Systems, Shipping in Loops
AI has eliminated manual coding, shifting software engineering to designing verification loops and system architecture, as evidenced by high PR throughput at Artemis and SpaceXAI.
- Omarchy: Linux Finally Reached My Desk
Omarchy treats the Linux desktop as a platform product with curated defaults and agent legibility, making an old ThinkPad work in minutes.
- Weird little guys of FOSS
Drew DeVault catalogs influential FOSS figures with controversial right-wing or fringe political views, warning readers not to harass them.
- Weird little guys of FOSS
The post catalogs prominent free‑software figures accused of extremist views, harassment, and bigotry, urging readers not to engage with them.
- Euge's blog - The Engineer as a Learning-System Builder
Engineers are moving from writing code to designing the learning system—its architecture, tools, constraints, and feedback loops—that enables agents to produce software safely and adaptively.
- 37signals Isn't Smarter Than You, But They Are Different
37signals achieves clean code by keeping teams small, cutting scope, and hiring top engineers, a strategy most companies cannot adopt due to feature-driven revenue models.
- Ruby Programming Language
Ruby's redesigned homepage highlights the language's fun, readable syntax, rich gem ecosystem, and supportive community through testimonials from Matz, DHH, and others.
Takes
Well said @dhh. I've 'retired' many times... from setting IRQ jumpers, defragging drives, and tuning config.sys for a few more kb of ram. making yesterday's work obsolete is the whole point of building. grateful to have watched it happen.
@kevinrose
I've been using Omarchy for a week, and here's my full honest review. It's an OS that made me excited about computers again. I was planning to play with it for only a couple of hours. But I find myself spending more and more time using it. It's so pleasant to use that I don't want to go back. Omarchy is a chef's special. And you can say that all the ingredients, like Arch, Hyprland, OpenCode, etc., existed long before, so you could always make it for yourself (not really true; people have built some things specifically for Omarchy from scratch). But someone spending so much time and resources to package everything nicely makes a big difference. The fact that a fully working Omarchy setup is just a couple of minutes away makes a big difference. I can literally install it while I'm brewing my coffee and simply start using it immediately. It just works ™️ And then I can spend all the time in the world tinkering with it because it's such a nice experience. You can notice that Omarchy is built by a person who cares about a product. It's not just tech supremacism. Every minor detail matters, and every papercut is taken seriously. As it should be. Even an innocent tiny thing like "pressing an arrow or backspace key moves the cursor a little bit faster" makes a big difference for me. I do feel like the computer matches my speed of thinking and working. Omarchy is not perfect. I had a minor issue with copy/paste keybindings with multiple language layouts (there's an open PR to address that already, and my agent fixed it for me locally). Terminal and browser windows take several noticeable seconds to start on my old laptop in a power-saving mode. My agent broke my theme once when I was trying to be too experimental with it (but then it easily reverted it to a working state). But honestly, this is nothing compared to how bad Windows and macOS can be in areas that matter. Omarchy will get better. Substantial resources are put into it, and I trust the @DHH vision to make it even better. My biggest genie wish for now is having a better file browser, e.g. a TUI version of Total Commander or Far Manager style. But I've already seen someone working on a similar thing, so I have high hopes. I just can't believe my oldest and least powerful laptop in my home is the machine I'm the most excited to use.
@ChShersh
Finally. Omarchy on M1 Mac. Stable. On a second partition. For close to a year I've been trying to emulate the beautiful flow on osx. Nothing beats the real deal. Thanks 🙏 @dhh and the community. Espacially @OmarchyMac
@crabcore
When working on Omarchy plugins I would like to have a VM to test things, so basically run Omarchy in Omarchy. How do you do this @dhh?
@jankeesvw
installed omarchy today! first (raw!) impressions: - installation process itself was easy, but getting my PC to read the .ISO on my external SSD required some research. a USB thumbdrive might have been simpler - the OS is really fast. even on cheap mini PC - love the automatic window tiling - keyboard-first navigation is great (something I already did on macOS, but on Omarchy it's even faster) - years of macOS keyboard shortcut muscle memory no longer working is VERY frustrating (and ironic, considering Omarchy is all about the shortcuts) - mouse movement feels a bit off even after trying to tweak the settings (macOS' is just REALLY good I think) - UI is pragmatic and gets out of the way. but still think macOS is nicer looking (sorry!) especially with the Liquid Glass fixes coming in the next release - installing my most used apps and logging into everything is a lot easier than I expected! - got a few weird errors and app crashes already, but I'm on the cutting edge release. I like that I can 1-click (or probably using some keyboard shortcut) debug the error in claude - all settings being config files is great, because easy to backup and claude can update it easily overall it's both fun, frustrating, and a great neuroflex. it reminds me of when I first started using vim after decades of textmate/sublime looking forward to see where @dhh and community will take this!
@marckohlbrugge
Happy to support this. More choices and better ecosystem support is good for everyone. Thanks for you leadership @DHH!
@eastdakota
It was the right call by @dhh to move Omarchy to use Quickshell, it is a delight to use, very happy I just migrated from waybar to it, so much more polished and pretty. Only took me a few hours to build this.
@samsaffron
it says a lot that the creators of three of the most iconic web frameworks: django (@simonw), flask (@mitsuhiko) and rails (@dhh) were so AI pilled so early
@trq212
I'm so happy Apple pissed off @dhh to the degree that he is now going on a decade long vendetta. 2026 is the year of Linux on my desktop.
@mschoening
My business partner @dhh is a god damn inspiration. He's a testament to the undefeated combination of competency, curiosity, and motivation. When you've got that combo, you can be unstoppable - especially when your enthusiasm is as infectious as his. Bravo!
@jasonfried
Full episode:https://t.co/fA9pyjFlhX
@AmpCode