dhh – walker – 2024-02

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Fonts don't have to look awful on Windows

dhh blog · 2024-02-29

I always thought it was a software problem — or at least a difference of aesthetics expressed in software. But it turns out the reason many

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

dhh github · 2024-02-27

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

dhh github · 2024-02-27

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

Finding The Last Editor

dhh blog · 2024-02-27

Some programmers can code under any conditions. Open office? They'll bring headphones. Whatever editor is on their system? They'll make it w

Switching to Android was easy

dhh blog · 2024-02-25

In addition to trying out Windows for a week, I also switched my main phone number to Android recently. And that turned out to be far easier

VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development

dhh blog · 2024-02-25

I’m kinda shocked. Windows actually got good for web developers. Between VSCode, WSL, and Intel’s latest desktop chips, I’ve been living wit

Every generation needs their own apocalypse

dhh blog · 2024-02-13

Danish 8th, 9th, and 10th graders vote in a mock election every year in Denmark. The results for 2024 were a startling refutation of the ide

The compounding seeds of creativity

dhh blog · 2024-02-12

Early on in my career, I learned a very important lesson about creativity: It can’t be saved for later. Creativity is perishable, just like

dhh pushed to main in hotwired/turbo-site

dhh github · 2024-02-07

turbo.hotwired.dev web site. Contribute to hotwired/turbo-site development by creating an account on GitHub.

Campfire is SaaS without the aaS

dhh blog · 2024-02-07

It hasn’t even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but we’ve already sold more than quarter of a million

Celebrating a million copies of REWORK

dhh blog · 2024-02-06

It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit the New York Times bestseller list righ

dhh commented on issue basecamp/kamal-skiff#5

dhh github · 2024-02-06

Would pull requests be considered to enable a skiff site in a subdirectory within a git repo, rather than the root directory of the repo and

It’s easier to forgive a human than a robot

dhh blog · 2024-02-05

One of the reasons I think AI is going to have a hard time taking over all our driving duties, our medical care, or even just our customer s

Basecamp turns 20

dhh blog · 2024-02-05

On February 5, 2004, we released the first version of Basecamp to the world. It was built to solve our own problems running client projects

Dare to connect a server to the internet

dhh blog · 2024-02-02

The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest things are too dangerous to even attempt by

Campfire is now for sale

dhh blog · 2024-02-01

After a couple of weeks of final Patek-level polishing with early-access customers, Campfire is finally for sale for all! This is The Moment