dhh – walker – 2024-04

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Magic machines

dhh blog · 2024-04-30

There's an interesting psychological phenomenon where programmers tend to ascribe more trust to computers run by anyone but themselves. Perh

We're moving continuous integration back to developer machines

dhh blog · 2024-04-29

Between running Rubocop style rules, Brakeman security scans, and model-controller-system tests, it takes our remote BuildKite-based continu

dhh pushed to main in basecamp/kamal-site

dhh github · 2024-04-28

kamal-deploy.org. Contribute to basecamp/kamal-site development by creating an account on GitHub.

I could have been happy with Windows

dhh blog · 2024-04-26

After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple. I've simply not been in the market for a

The gift of ambition

dhh blog · 2024-04-25

The Babylon Bee ran this amazing bit last year: "Study Finds 100% Of Men Would Immediately Leave Their Desk Job If Asked To Embark Upon A Tr

Villains may live long enough to become heroes

dhh blog · 2024-04-25

The first tech company I ever really despised was Microsoft. This was back in the 1990s, the era of "cutting off the air supply", of embrace

As we forgive those who trespass against us

dhh blog · 2024-04-23

Google's announcement that they're done discussing politics at work widely echoed the policy changes Coinbase and we at 37signals did a few

We are a place of business

dhh blog · 2024-04-19

After the disastrous launch of their Gemini AI, which insisted that George Washington was actually Black and couldn't decide whether Musk's

Forcing master to main was a good faith exploit

dhh blog · 2024-04-15

I never actually cared whether we call it master or main. So when the racialized claims started over how calling the default branch in Git r

Imperfections create connections

dhh blog · 2024-04-12

The engine is in wrong place in a Porsche 911. It's hanging out the back, swinging the car like a pendulum. And that's key to why it's the m

dhh commented on issue basecamp/kamal#61

dhh github · 2024-04-12

Thoughts about supporting Podman instead of Docker as well?

Enough problems to go around

dhh blog · 2024-04-11

The worst kind of company is usually not the one where there's too much real work to do, but the kind where there's not enough. It's in this

dhh pushed to main in hotwired/turbo-site

dhh github · 2024-04-10

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

dhh merged a pull request in hotwired/turbo-site

dhh github · 2024-04-10

Clarify that Turbo swaps the content of the <body> tag, not the tag itself. If you have markup like: <body class='bg-gray-100'> ... </body

You're not guaranteed a spot on the team

dhh blog · 2024-04-10

I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously not true, and it's usually cynically inv

Le Mans 2024

dhh blog · 2024-04-03

This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some five years after I had first driven a re