dhh – walker – 2022-10

RT by @dhh: This company ditched ClickUp + Slack, switched to Basecamp, and saved themselves ~$20,000/year. Not a bad day's work! They wanted to "cut the stress, reduce complexity, streamline communications, and increase meaningful collaboration." It worked. Story: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/switching-from-clickup-slack-basecamp-24-hours-paul-dietzel

This company ditched ClickUp + Slack, switched to Basecamp, and saved themselves ~$20,000/year. Not a bad day's work! They wanted to "cut t

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dhh released v1.1.1 at hotwired/stimulus-rails

What's Changed Upgrade to Stimulus 3.1.1 by @dhh Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.1.1

dhh released v3.1.1 at hotwired/stimulus

What's Changed Clear dangling EventListeners and Detached Nodes when a controller is removed from the DOM by @intrip in #592 Support custom

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Use Stimulus in your Ruby on Rails app. Contribute to hotwired/stimulus-rails development by creating an account on GitHub.

dhh pushed to main in hotwired/stimulus-rails

Use Stimulus in your Ruby on Rails app. Contribute to hotwired/stimulus-rails development by creating an account on GitHub.

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dhh created a tag v3.1.1 in hotwired/stimulus

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"You know that you can find the most vile, nasty shit on the internet if you search for the right words on Google. So most people just don't do that! They manage their own exposure by moderating their own behavior. This could be Twitter!" https://world.hey.com/dhh/here-s-how-to-fix-twitter-79632ecb

"You know that you can find the most vile, nasty shit on the internet if you search for the right words on Google. So most people just don't

Here's how to fix Twitter

With Twitter under new ownership, it's a great time for us to imagine how this hellscape might actually get fixed. And by fixed, I mean be a

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dhh merged a pull request in hotwired/stimulus

eventListenerMaps maps HTML elements handled by Stimulus to eventListenerMap, a map of Stimulus EventListeners in this way: { HTMLelement: {

Jason shows off the new Card Table feature in Basecamp by peaking inside real projects at 37signals where we're using it. Wonderful feature demonstrated with a real look into how we work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUL6MpR8eMI

Jason shows off the new Card Table feature in Basecamp by peaking inside real projects at 37signals where we're using it. Wonderful feature

The best teacher is a bad boss

It takes a lot longer to learn how to run a good business, if your lessons are derived solely from the confines of calm, comfortable compani

RT by @dhh: Seeing many more figure this out

Seeing many more figure this out

The delusional demands of some Twitter employees

That crazy son of bitch finally did it. Twitter now belongs to Elon Musk. And I must admit that I'm softening on the prospect. I still think

"American companies will never be able to resist the demands of their intelligence services. It doesn't matter if their servers are in Virginia, Paris, or on the damn moon. Europe should either come to terms with that reality or raise a real privacy wall." https://world.hey.com/dhh/american-data-spies-will-never-care-where-the-servers-are-371d4016

"American companies will never be able to resist the demands of their intelligence services. It doesn't matter if their servers are in Virgi

American data spies will never care where the servers are

In the two years since the European Court of Justice invalidated the Privacy Shield concept, European companies have been scrambling to pret

RT by @dhh: The next new feature in HEY is a way to minimize drafts while writing so you can peek at another thread. Your draft will stay docked to the bottom while you move around in HEY. When you’re ready to resume writing, just pop it back open and continue where you left off.

The next new feature in HEY is a way to minimize drafts while writing so you can peek at another thread. Your draft will stay docked to the

Make politics private again

Before social media, I couldn't tell you what narrow political box to put most of my friends or coworkers. I might have had a hunch as to wh

R to @dhh: Of course this isn't a fair fight. Not latest Intel chips against latest AMD. But it is a reflection that generational leaps in server CPUs are getting interesting again! Those AMDs are just the Zen 3 chips. Eager to see what more we can squeeze from Zen 4 early next year.

Of course this isn't a fair fight. Not latest Intel chips against latest AMD. But it is a reflection that generational leaps in server CPUs

One of the fun parts about buying your own hardware is seeing the big leaps in computing without any cloud abstraction. Here's a 99th percentile comparison on some new AMD EPYC 7443s we got against our old Intel chips running @basecamp's majestic monolith. WOW! 😍

One of the fun parts about buying your own hardware is seeing the big leaps in computing without any cloud abstraction. Here's a 99th percen

RT by @dhh: Everything is becoming expensive. Well @basecamp became more affordable, specially if you are small like @PTSNagpur. This led us to finally sign up for it and also move away from Slack, JIRA and Google Drive. Thanks @jasonfried and @dhh

Everything is becoming expensive. Well @basecamp became more affordable, specially if you are small like @PTSNagpur. This led us to finally

Why do they talk like that

Here's Snap explaining to investors why their third quarter results were such a disappointment: “We are finding that our advertising partner

"Many businesses waste an inordinate amount of time chasing projects of improvement that require a statistical microscope to detect. The only way to make mental space for new ideas is to let go of disappointing actualities." https://world.hey.com/dhh/move-the-needle-or-move-on-7102cc0e

"Many businesses waste an inordinate amount of time chasing projects of improvement that require a statistical microscope to detect. The onl

RT by @dhh: Trying something new over here... Every once in a while, @dhh and I are going to hop on a recorded line and talk about a recent decision we've made. Here's the first one: Why we launched a new pricing experiment for Basecamp 4. Listen in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYwvcv1J1OQ

Trying something new over here... Every once in a while, @dhh and I are going to hop on a recorded line and talk about a recent decision we'

"What was our first instinct on this decision? Are we now just walking around in circles trying to justify that gut reaction with data?", and 37 other questions we like to pose before making decisions @37signals. https://37signals.com/how-we-make-decisions

"What was our first instinct on this decision? Are we now just walking around in circles trying to justify that gut reaction with data?", an

When it's really working, we can all see it

Don’t continue to waste your attention on projects that can’t be deemed a success by the naked eye. The more sophisticated you have to be to

Move the needle or move on

Don’t continue to waste your attention on projects that can’t be deemed a success by the naked eye. The more sophisticated you have to be to

dhh merged a pull request in hotwired/turbo-rails

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Use Turbo in your Ruby on Rails app. Contribute to hotwired/turbo-rails development by creating an account on GitHub.

RT by @dhh: Started reading this book over the weekend. Written without any jargon and inspires us to rework on how we do things. Much recommended read. #rework

Started reading this book over the weekend. Written without any jargon and inspires us to rework on how we do things. Much recommended read.

Our new show host Kimberly spoke with Eron, our director of operations, and me about our decision to leave the cloud. Tons more details, specifics, and rationale behind the decision in this episode of the @reworkpodcast. https://share.transistor.fm/s/9544cb13

Our new show host Kimberly spoke with Eron, our director of operations, and me about our decision to leave the cloud. Tons more details, spe

RT by @dhh: New in HEY: We're introducing a new option to 🫧 Bubble Up an email if you haven't received a reply by a certain date. This is super handy for situations when you're waiting on someone for something. ⏳ https://updates.37signals.com/post/new-in-hey-bubble-up-if-no-reply-by

New in HEY: We're introducing a new option to 🫧 Bubble Up an email if you haven't received a reply by a certain date. This is super handy

"Twitter in its current form is a dumpster fir that the more than 7K employees still haven't put out after years of trying almost nothing. Yet much of the coverage is focused with hysterical intensity on the dangers of not doing more of the same." https://world.hey.com/dhh/need-it-take-7-500-people-to-run-twitter-a8cb36a6

"Twitter in its current form is a dumpster fir that the more than 7K employees still haven't put out after years of trying almost nothing. Y

Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter?

When WhatsApp was sold to Facebook in 2014, it had almost half a billion monthly users, but a team of just 50 people running everything. Com

dhh released v1.3.2 at hotwired/turbo-rails

What's Changed Upgrade to Turbo 7.2.4 by @dhh Full Changelog: v1.3.1...v1.3.2

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dhh pushed to main in hotwired/turbo-rails

Use Turbo in your Ruby on Rails app. Contribute to hotwired/turbo-rails development by creating an account on GitHub.

dhh pushed to main in hotwired/turbo-rails

Use Turbo in your Ruby on Rails app. Contribute to hotwired/turbo-rails development by creating an account on GitHub.

dhh pushed to main in hotwired/turbo

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Don’t tell someone how to feel

Emotions rarely flow neatly from logic. That’s why we so often place the two in contrast. And why it’s foolish to try to tell others how the

"LinkedIn IS a nerdy, straight-laced, and often lame version of Facebook. But somehow that has gone from cringe to cherished over the last decade. During which Twitter went from the cool, interesting place to the veritable trash fire it is today." https://world.hey.com/dhh/linkedin-71ee75d9

"LinkedIn IS a nerdy, straight-laced, and often lame version of Facebook. But somehow that has gone from cringe to cherished over the last d

LinkedIn?!

I must be the latest of the late-late adopters to LinkedIn. I somehow managed to go almost twenty years without an account on the assumption

dhh pushed to main in hotwired/turbo

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"Of course it's expensive to rent your computers from someone else. But it's never presented in those terms. The cloud is sold as computing on demand, which sounds futuristic and cool, and very much not like something as mundane as 'renting computers'." https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0

"Of course it's expensive to rent your computers from someone else. But it's never presented in those terms. The cloud is sold as computing

Why we're leaving the cloud

Basecamp has had one foot in the cloud for well over a decade, and HEY has been running there exclusively since it was launched two years ag

dhh pushed to main in hotwired/turbo-rails

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dhh merged a pull request in hotwired/turbo-rails

What Replace deprecated function Turbo.clearCache() in upgrade doc with Turbo.cache.clear() Reference https://turbo.hotwired.dev/reference/d

"You don't even have to like or use Copilot to be troubled by this investigation into the legitimacy of its existence. If we seek to indict how AI might enable us to "engage with the body of open source code", why stop at the AI level?" https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-scarcity-scarecrows-of-open-source-325f6d2b

"You don't even have to like or use Copilot to be troubled by this investigation into the legitimacy of its existence. If we seek to indict

The scarcity scarecrows of open source

I love the ethos of open source: Free code creating a true commons in software. I'm less enthralled with some of the particulars of capitali

RT by @dhh: Introducing Card Tables! Visualize your workflow using cards and columns, plus a few new ideas that make it uniquely Basecamp. We'll share much more soon, but you can try it out right now on your projects. Here's a quick overview: https://updates.37signals.com/post/new-in-basecamp-card-tables

Introducing Card Tables! Visualize your workflow using cards and columns, plus a few new ideas that make it uniquely Basecamp. We'll share m

dhh released v1.3.1 at hotwired/turbo-rails

What's Changed Upgrade to Turbo 7.2.2 by @dhh Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.3.1

dhh created a tag v1.3.1 in hotwired/turbo-rails

Use Turbo in your Ruby on Rails app. Contribute to hotwired/turbo-rails development by creating an account on GitHub.

dhh pushed to main in hotwired/turbo-rails

Use Turbo in your Ruby on Rails app. Contribute to hotwired/turbo-rails development by creating an account on GitHub.

dhh pushed to main in hotwired/turbo-rails

Use Turbo in your Ruby on Rails app. Contribute to hotwired/turbo-rails development by creating an account on GitHub.

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"Software that comes out of a constrained process is better, not worse. It wouldn't be better to take the same feature we spend 6 weeks on, and give it 6 months and 5x the people. You get the kind of software that you set up the boundaries to produce." https://www.rework.fm/quick-wins/

"Software that comes out of a constrained process is better, not worse. It wouldn't be better to take the same feature we spend 6 weeks on,

dhh commented on issue hotwired/stimulus-rails#110

I have created an website where we use stimulus in frontend part. No customer routes has been used there and turbo has been used in the webp

dhh closed an issue in hotwired/stimulus-rails

I have created an website where we use stimulus in frontend part. No customer routes has been used there and turbo has been used in the webp

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