dhh – walker – 2023-03

"The irony is that living in Denmark has actually made me appreciate America more! For all its naval gazing about supposed structural racism or other sins, it is by far the most welcoming, open, and integratable country I've ever spent serious time in." https://world.hey.com/dhh/america-is-never-getting-to-denmark-e471ae91

"The irony is that living in Denmark has actually made me appreciate America more! For all its naval gazing about supposed structural racism

How to have buckets of time

One of the most important techniques I've embraced for managing my time is to direct related tasks to a bucket, let that bucket accumulate u

RT by @dhh: It’s a trend. Welcome back, again.

It’s a trend. Welcome back, again.

RT by @dhh: Glad to have you. We’ve been making it better and better and better while you’ve been gone. And more to come! Welcome back.

Glad to have you. We’ve been making it better and better and better while you’ve been gone. And more to come! Welcome back.

America is never "getting to Denmark"

It took moving back to Denmark to realize the folly of thinking America is ever going to "get there". Whether on guns or healthcare or taxes

RT by @dhh: "By...purchasing new hardware from @DellTech, & running his business from a colocation facility, he will save millions of dollars," says @DHH, co-owner & CTO at #SaaS vendor @37signals. Discover the 💰 saving opportunities of efficient workload placement. https://dell.to/3nvKosA

"By...purchasing new hardware from @DellTech, & running his business from a colocation facility, he will save millions of dollars," says @DH

Strada Release Date

It’s actively being worked on. But don’t hold your breath (for any open source release, not just strada 😄).

RT by @dhh: You have a limited supply of yes, and an unlimited supply of no. Yet people act as if the opposites are true. Yes is easier to say, but no is easier to do.

You have a limited supply of yes, and an unlimited supply of no. Yet people act as if the opposites are true. Yes is easier to say, but no

RT by @dhh: We’re bringing more flexibility and power to My Assignments to make Basecamp the best place to manage your priorities. Up Next is a new feature for you to prioritize what you're going to work on across projects. ⬆️ Full details here: https://updates.37signals.com/post/new-in-basecamp-up-next-and-bulk-change-due-dates

We’re bringing more flexibility and power to My Assignments to make Basecamp the best place to manage your priorities. Up Next is a new f

Biggest release of MRSK since its premiere. 11 new contributors. Let's you deploy unique roles and destinations on the same host. Accessories on multiple hosts. Zero-downtime redeploys. Now powering 3x 37s apps on our own hardware, 3 more close to moving! https://github.com/mrsked/mrsk/releases/tag/v0.10.0

Biggest release of MRSK since its premiere. 11 new contributors. Let's you deploy unique roles and destinations on the same host. Accessorie

"You'd think that such an experiment would have lots of backers. Especially amongst those skeptical about what targeted ads have done to the internet. And certainly amongst those worried about 'misinformation' from 'foreign actors'. I for one am a fan". https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-is-paid-social-media-a-bad-idea-623a9c76

"You'd think that such an experiment would have lots of backers. Especially amongst those skeptical about what targeted ads have done to the

dhh pushed to accessory-hosts-or-roles in basecamp/mrsk

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Why is paid social media a bad idea?

It'll soon cost $7/month to fully participate on Twitter. Musk has announced they'll start reserving presence in the For You tab solely for

dhh pushed to lock-deploys in basecamp/mrsk

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dhh pushed to global-logging-config in calmyournerves/mrsk

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dhh pushed to global-logging-config in calmyournerves/mrsk

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dhh pushed to gracefully-shut-down-containers in basecamp/mrsk

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dhh pushed to gracefully-shut-down-containers in basecamp/mrsk

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dhh pushed to gracefully-shut-down-containers in basecamp/mrsk

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dhh pushed to gracefully-shut-down-containers in basecamp/mrsk

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Compared to the 5-10 minutes we used to spend on deployment using our old cloud pipeline, this feels magic.

Compared to the 5-10 minutes we used to spend on deployment using our old cloud pipeline, this feels magic.

"It frustrates me to no end to see tech companies trying to cut costs by firing folks rather than reigning in the cloud spend. At least run the numbers. You owe it to your employees before you start printing those pink slips." https://world.hey.com/dhh/cut-cloud-before-payroll-a4530ebd

"It frustrates me to no end to see tech companies trying to cut costs by firing folks rather than reigning in the cloud spend. At least run

dhh pushed to default-to-deploying-config-version in djmb/mrsk

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Cut cloud before payroll

Every week seems to offer fresh staff cuts at the big tech companies right now. Several of the giants are already on their second rounds, an

Awesome mid-journey update from Farah on our cloud exit. Full of details on how we moved from K8S to MRSK. Three apps done, three apps currently being prepped. Cloud exit thus well ahead of schedule! https://dev.37signals.com/bringing-our-apps-home/

Awesome mid-journey update from Farah on our cloud exit. Full of details on how we moved from K8S to MRSK. Three apps done, three apps curre

Angry customers are a gift

The majority of customers will never tell you why they stop buying on their own. In fact, even if pressed, most will just smile, nod, and gi

This five minute behind-the-scenes look at how we produced our first-ever brand commercial on a shoestring budget of $37,000 also happens to be perhaps the best showcase for using Basecamp to collaborate. Nothing like getting real! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGlrFUm8zA

This five minute behind-the-scenes look at how we produced our first-ever brand commercial on a shoestring budget of $37,000 also happens to

"No one defines all the work up front. Instead we define the direction, the purpose, the reason, and a few specific "must haves" up front. The rest—all the rest, which is mostly everything—is determined during the project, by the people on the project." https://world.hey.com/jason/delegating-projects-not-tasks-f36cb8bc

"No one defines all the work up front. Instead we define the direction, the purpose, the reason, and a few specific "must haves" up front. T

dhh pushed to fix-destination-filter in calmyournerves/mrsk

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dhh pushed to fix-destination-filter in calmyournerves/mrsk

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"I bought the cloud dream... but it wasn't true."

"I bought the cloud dream... but it wasn't true."

Compressing a million-dollar commercial into $37,000

Last year, we hired a high-profile ad agency to work on our first-ever branding campaign for Basecamp. They were smart, funny... and entirel

R to @dhh: In fact, I think we should probably just make —download the default. Most Serious Apps will be behind their own CDN anyway. So defaulting to another JS CDN probably doesn’t make sense, except for demo/tiny apps. Just have to deal with the ick some folks have with vendored deps 😄

In fact, I think we should probably just make —download the default. Most Serious Apps will be behind their own CDN anyway. So defaulting to

dhh closed an issue in hotwired/turbo-rails

we have an application that uses importmaps where we use "@hotwired/turbo-rails" currently the turbo-rails package seems to export

dhh commented on pull request hotwired/turbo-site#138

This changes emphasizes the fact that <turbo-frame> elements and <turbo-stream> elements are completely unrelated and serve "orthogonal" pur

R to @leenyburger: You don’t have to pull from CDN. For HEY, we just —download the few dependencies we have, and check them into as vendored libs. Works great. https://github.com/rails/importmap-rails#downloading-vendor-files-from-the-javascript-cdn

You don’t have to pull from CDN. For HEY, we just —download the few dependencies we have, and check them into as vendored libs. Works gr

R to @realdschlussel: The quoted S3 cost is all-in with all fees. But comes from private pricing and long binding. Cloud storage is probably the most compelling cloud service available, and where beating even S3 is the most difficult.

The quoted S3 cost is all-in with all fees. But comes from private pricing and long binding. Cloud storage is probably the most compelling c

R to @jdiepenmaat: We work in 6 week cycles. Always plenty of slack in the collaboration to allow for someone to be out for a few days. Just not a problem.

We work in 6 week cycles. Always plenty of slack in the collaboration to allow for someone to be out for a few days. Just not a problem.

Great to welcome @cedarcode to The Rails Foundation. We have an awesome road map for Amanda to execute, and having more contributing members only helps. Excited to see us share more soon ✌️

Great to welcome @cedarcode to The Rails Foundation. We have an awesome road map for Amanda to execute, and having more contributing members

“Small is not less than. It’s greater than. It’s faster than. It’s better than. We're often changing how we work at 37signals, but I feel like this one's settled on the product side. Two person teams simply can't be beat.” https://world.hey.com/jason/just-the-two-of-us-afb2f54e

“Small is not less than. It’s greater than. It’s faster than. It’s better than. We're often changing how we work at 37signals, but

R to @webtwozero: Yes. Considerably.

Yes. Considerably.

R to @webtwozero: Lowest criticality to highest criticality, roughly. For docker, just monitoring as well as --restart unless-stopped.

Lowest criticality to highest criticality, roughly. For docker, just monitoring as well as --restart unless-stopped.

We just brought home our third legacy app from the cloud using MRSK today. Crazy to think that at the beginning of the year we weren't quite sure how we'd do it, and now we've already brought home 3 out of the 7 apps we had in the cloud 🎉

We just brought home our third legacy app from the cloud using MRSK today. Crazy to think that at the beginning of the year we weren't quite

Started a Discord for MRSK: https://discord.gg/DQETs3Pm

Started a Discord for MRSK: https://discord.gg/DQETs3Pm

RT by @dhh: Didn't get through your to-dos before the weekend? Now you can bulk change or shift due dates! 🗓️

Didn't get through your to-dos before the weekend? Now you can bulk change or shift due dates! 🗓️

R to @marckohlbrugge: Several new libraries and frameworks in the pipeline 😄👍

Several new libraries and frameworks in the pipeline 😄👍

Working on a new product at @37signals. Even more high fidelity in the UI than @heyhey, and so far we’ve gotten almost everything “for free” using Hotwire. A level of front-end productivity that almost feels like cheating. https://hotwired.dev

Working on a new product at @37signals. Even more high fidelity in the UI than @heyhey, and so far we’ve gotten almost everything “for free”

“I knew we were spending millions every year, but when we boiled that number down to, it costs us $38,000 per week in the cloud right now, I just couldn’t get that number outta my head.” https://37signals.com/podcast/leaving-the-cloud-part-2/

“I knew we were spending millions every year, but when we boiled that number down to, it costs us $38,000 per week in the cloud right now,

Email spam is such a fascinating topic. HEY already completely protects your imbox from being hit by spam thanks to the screener, but now we've also made a big 30-40% improvement in what you do see in that screener. https://updates.37signals.com/post/new-in-hey-less-spam

Email spam is such a fascinating topic. HEY already completely protects your imbox from being hit by spam thanks to the screener, but now we

One of my favorite things about starting a new open source project is to see a nascent community of contributors form around it. Thank you Chris, Samuel, Simon, Rasmus, and Axel for your MRSK 0.9.0 contributions ✌️❤️ https://github.com/mrsked/mrsk/releases/tag/v0.9.0

One of my favorite things about starting a new open source project is to see a nascent community of contributors form around it. Thank you C

@lit_likhari: The only place where #India can never beat #Pakistan is #DHH @talhahanjum @TalhahYunus

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The only place where <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/India?sr

R to @abdellahjs: Just MRSK. All that "runs" on the machine is Docker.

Just MRSK. All that "runs" on the machine is Docker.

@MCSTAN15601006: Khane vine ka naam mat lete jaaa nai to fir main bhi bolenga kakdi bikdi 😅 #MCStan #MCStan𓃵 #StannyArmy #aaizavuntakmitramandal #DHH

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550"><p lang="hi" dir="ltr">Khane vine ka naam mat lete jaaa nai to fir main bhi bolenga kakdi

"82% of enterprises surveyed by Flexera Software LLC in late 2022 cited managing cloud spending as their top cloud challenge, the first time in over a decade of conducting the survey that cloud spending has ranked above cybersecurity." https://www.wsj.com/articles/technology-chiefs-seek-help-wrangling-cloud-costs-61ba0b50?mod=hp_minor_pos4

"82% of enterprises surveyed by Flexera Software LLC in late 2022 cited managing cloud spending as their top cloud challenge, the first time

@luffy2sasuke1: #MZeeBella - I'm On Mars #AlphaGang #DHH #Rap

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MZeeBella?src=hash&ref_src=tw

"You can't convince someone invested in their convictions to the contrary by arguments alone. Only actions can pry open a locked mind. So if you wish to be persuasive, you ought to spend less time arguing and more time doing." https://world.hey.com/dhh/actions-beat-arguments-2aa1da34

"You can't convince someone invested in their convictions to the contrary by arguments alone. Only actions can pry open a locked mind. So if

Actions beat arguments

You can't convince someone invested in their convictions to the contrary by arguments alone. Only actions can pry open a locked mind, and mo

@stanwrld999: Alert ⚠️ #MCStan's Spotify account has been hacked! Three unofficial tracks have been uploaded by an unknown source. Stay cautious and avoid listening to these unauthorized songs. Let's hope the issue gets resolved soon. #HipHop #IHH #DHH @MCStanOfficial @vardhmaan008

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Alert ⚠️ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MCStan?src=hash&ref_

@kattar__stany__: What an entry, Bombay public gone crazy over #MCStan𓃵 ❤️‍🔥🥶.. hope the next venue will also be as much hyped as this...🔥 #MCStan #MCStanConcert #MCStanArmy #StannyArmy #rap #HipHopMusic #HipHop50 #hiphop #rapper #DHH

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What an entry, Bombay public gone crazy over <a href="https://twit

We’ve been happy Deft customers since 2010. Glad to have them help us with the cloud exit, which is now happening much faster than we originally estimated. In part thanks to MRSK solving a key part of the puzzle. Another legacy app scheduled to come home this week!

We’ve been happy Deft customers since 2010. Glad to have them help us with the cloud exit, which is now happening much faster than we origin

dhh pushed to main in hotwired/turbo-rails

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dhh merged a pull request in hotwired/turbo-rails

This PR exposes the Turbo Native navigation helpers to be used in developer's apps. It also add some documentation on how you might want to

I know I've been down on cloud lately, but I really like what http://Fly.io is doing. The HTTP verb-based region distribution is brilliant, it's built on stock Dockerfiles that are easy to migrate, and they engage with the ecosystem 👍

I know I've been down on cloud lately, but I really like what http://Fly.io is doing. The HTTP verb-based region distribution is brilliant,

dhh commented on pull request Homebrew/brew#14847

Have you followed the guidelines in our Contributing document? Have you checked to ensure there aren't other open Pull Requests for the sam

R to @dhh: Wonder if anyone @twitter have the nerves of steel to enter @elonmusk in this sweepstakes for a shot at sending him to hell for a whole week 😄

Wonder if anyone @twitter have the nerves of steel to enter @elonmusk in this sweepstakes for a shot at sending him to hell for a whole week

Ever wanted to send your boss to HELL? Even just for a week, so you might get some work done at work? We literally giving you the chance to do just that. For a week. All expenses paid by @Basecamp. (Seriously, this is real! 😄). https://sendyourbosstohell.com

Ever wanted to send your boss to HELL? Even just for a week, so you might get some work done at work? We literally giving you the chance to

RT by @dhh: Ever wanted to tell your boss to "Go to Hell"? Enter Basecamp's "Send Your Boss to Hell Sweepstakes" for the chance to send your boss to literal Hell🔥 http://sendyourbosstohell.com #sendyourbosstohell NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Ends 03/31/23. See full rules at http://sendyourbosstohell.com.

Ever wanted to tell your boss to "Go to Hell"? Enter Basecamp's "Send Your Boss to Hell Sweepstakes" for the chance to send your boss to li

"Entrepreneurs everywhere are suddenly having to count each hire as a cost rather than a trophy. Getting to profitability is no longer a distant, post-IPO nice-to-have. But how to do that without cutting off the legs of the product team?" https://world.hey.com/dhh/saas-startups-will-have-to-care-about-productivity-again-78d4bd1a

"Entrepreneurs everywhere are suddenly having to count each hire as a cost rather than a trophy. Getting to profitability is no longer a dis

SaaS startups will have to care about productivity again

When the money flows freely, and there's a strong cachet to having tons of open positions, you can be forgiven to think that the individual

Most smaller companies don't need a full-fledged hiring pipeline SaaS app, but it sure is nice to be able to collaborate on the process using a basic workflow. This is free with every HEY account.

Most smaller companies don't need a full-fledged hiring pipeline SaaS app, but it sure is nice to be able to collaborate on the process usin

RT by @dhh: Just accidentally spent $300 on a single BigQuery query AMA

Just accidentally spent $300 on a single BigQuery query AMA

RT by @dhh: Tired: « Ruby on Rails is sooo dying in 2023 » Hired: RoR is the most in-demand skill in 2023. Source: HIRED State of Software Engineering 2023

Tired: « Ruby on Rails is sooo dying in 2023 » Hired: RoR is the most in-demand skill in 2023. Source: HIRED State of Software Enginee

"This is one of the great clarifying things about writing. You think you might have this crisp concept in your head, so hey, let’s just call a quick meeting, and we’ll just hash it out. But your concept is not crisp at all. It’s totally crumbled." https://37signals.com/podcast/hire-great-writers/

"This is one of the great clarifying things about writing. You think you might have this crisp concept in your head, so hey, let’s just ca

dhh closed an issue in hotwired/turbo-site

Not a bug here, just a question: any way to use hotwire/turbo wordpress? :)

dhh commented on issue hotwired/turbo-site#120

Not a bug here, just a question: any way to use hotwire/turbo wordpress? :)

dhh closed an issue in hotwired/turbo-site

Do you have any plans to update the Turbo documents to v7.2.0? As far as I see, most updates are missing in the current document: https://gi

dhh merged a pull request in hotwired/turbo-site

Hello! I noticed I couldn't reliably get to work the example in the Custom Rendering section of the Turbo Frame Handbook (I was randomly hit

dhh pushed to main in hotwired/turbo-site

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dhh pushed to main in hotwired/turbo-site

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dhh merged a pull request in hotwired/turbo-site

While working with turbo frames, I was under the impression that navigating an element programmatically requires 1 . to set src property 2.

dhh merged a pull request in hotwired/turbo-site

dhh pushed to main in hotwired/turbo-site

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RT by @dhh: "As long as it doesn’t smell like dogma or is used as a weapon to attack others’ professionalism, I have no problems with TDD. I just see it as a tool I don’t use." https://buff.ly/3mgSKnd

"As long as it doesn’t smell like dogma or is used as a weapon to attack others’ professionalism, I have no problems with TDD. I just se

dhh closed a pull request in hotwired/turbo-site

This tweet is good feedback, that if you're getting started it could be more clear how Turbo works with Rails. This PR makes some minor twea

dhh commented on pull request hotwired/turbo-site#135

This tweet is good feedback, that if you're getting started it could be more clear how Turbo works with Rails. This PR makes some minor twea

dhh closed a pull request in hotwired/hotwire-site

This tweet is good feedback. While Hotwire does not depend on Rails, it does come coupled with Rails for the majority of users. So it is pro

dhh commented on pull request hotwired/hotwire-site#35

This tweet is good feedback. While Hotwire does not depend on Rails, it does come coupled with Rails for the majority of users. So it is pro

RT by @dhh: Me: “Hey AWS, looks like our RDS bill unexpectedly shot up by 400%, its now higher than our entire infra bill from the month before. Can you help us?” AWS: “Sure! Switch to graviton instances and reserve them for 3 years, you could save 16%!” I’m becoming radicalized

Me: “Hey AWS, looks like our RDS bill unexpectedly shot up by 400%, its now higher than our entire infra bill from the month before. Can you

Turbo 7.3.0 released: - Don't break out of frames when frame missing - Respect turbo-visit-control for frame requests - Allow changing the submitter text during form submission Great stuff in this one. https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/releases/tag/v7.3.0

Turbo 7.3.0 released: - Don't break out of frames when frame missing - Respect turbo-visit-control for frame requests - Allow changing the s

dhh merged a pull request in hotwired/turbo-site

Documents the new missing frame behaviour introduced in hotwired/turbo#863 and hotwired/turbo#867, and describes how to handle the common ca

dhh pushed to main in hotwired/turbo-site

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dhh pushed to main in hotwired/turbo-site

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dhh merged a pull request in hotwired/turbo-site

In hotwired/turbo#881 @bennadel noticed that the examples for declaring custom stream actions in the docs aren't right. This pull request fi

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dhh released v1.4.0 at hotwired/turbo-rails

What's Changed Upgrade to Turbo 7.3.0 by @dhh Allow passing a :template option to Broadcastable methods by @davidalejandroaguilar in #425 I

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dhh created a tag v1.4.0 in hotwired/turbo-rails

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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

The speed of a single-page web application without having to write any JavaScript - Comparing 7bd2ce86a7...4593d06ce5 · hotwired/turbo

Now that's a good looking race car! Ready for #LeMans24 https://www.instagram.com/p/CpP72wgNYzt/

Now that's a good looking race car! Ready for #LeMans24 https://www.instagram.com/p/CpP72wgNYzt/

The simplest thing that could possibly work

I'm a programming child of the agile software movement. Just as I was starting out, Kent Beck published Extreme Programming Explained in 200