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Creator of Ruby on Rails / Le Mans driver

clankers with claws

cloud gaming is kinda amazing

promoting ai agents

the o'saasy license

europe is weak and delusional (but not doomed)

fizzy is our fun, modern take on kanban (and we made it free to self-host!)

fizzy is our fun, modern take on kanban (and we made it open source!)

six billion reasons to cheer for shopify

local llms are how nerds now justify a big computer they don't need

no backup, no cry

sabbaticals keep our attrition at bay

success always spawns haters

a petabyte worth of omarchy in a month

give me ai slop over human sludge any day

pay yourself first

we've all had enough of this nonsense

calling someone a "nazi" is a permission slip for violence

the great falls of boeing, intel, and apple

as i remember london

apple has no one left who can say no

words are not violence

thrice charmed at rails world

engineering excellence starts on edge

omarchy micro-forks chromium

what do you do with a chance?

all-in on omarchy at 37signals

it's beginning to feel like the 80s in america again

the framework desktop is a beast

youtube has earned its crown

omarchy is on the move

executives should be the least busy people

the beauty of ideals

building competency is better than therapy

you expect principles but should wish for none

it's a beelink, baby

linux crosses magic market share threshold in us

the 6 hours of lex

get in losers, we're moving to linux!

the parental dead end of consent morality

self-driving is finally happening

gender and sexuality alliances in primary school at cis?!

denmark gets more serious about digital sovereignty

omarchy: bottling that inspiration before it spoils

hey is finally for sale on the iphone!

have you tried the exact opposite?

cheap mini pcs have gotten really good

coding should be a vibe!

don't make google sell chrome

we'll always need junior programmers

the new framework 13 hx370

normal boyhood is adhd

believe it's going to work even though it probably won't

why we won't hire a junior with five years of experience

universal basic dead end

great ai steals

the year on linux

singularity & serenity

it's five grand a day to miss our s3 exit

motivating the s3 exit with five thousand dollars a day

to hell with forever

age is a problem at apple

the 80s are still alive in denmark

apple needs a new asshole in charge

the most interesting people

we wash our trash to repent for killing god

our switch to kamal is complete

closing the borders alone won't fix the problems

apple does ai as microsoft did mobile

beans and vibes in even measure

air purifiers are a simple answer to allergies

human service is luxury

amd in everything

the new york times gives liberals the danish permission to pivot on mass immigration

stick with the customer

when to give up

europe must become dangerous again

europe's impotent rage

leave it to the germans

europeans don't have or understand free speech

serving the country

servers can last a long time

failed integration and the fall of multiculturalism

the social media censorship era is over (for now)

delusional dreams of excess freedom

the premise trap

jaguar is lost but volvo knows the way

cold reading an adhd affliction

joining the shopify board of directors

obsessive problem solving followed by aimless wandering

house rules in fortnite

too much therapy at work

the spells are spent

what you know that just ain't so

our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years

capture less than you create

to the crazy ones

open source royalty and mad kings

automattic is doing open source dirty

kamal 2: thou need not paas

wonderful rails world vibes

ears rarely open until a rapport is established

back in the market (sonos edition)

passwords have problems, but passkeys have more

optimize for bio cores first, silicon cores second

why don't more people use linux?

free speech isn't guaranteed to be forever

for what it'll make of you

we once more have no full-time managers at 37signals

children of you

merchants of complexity

software estimates have never worked and never will

where at least i know i'm free

the framework 13 has a new high-res screen!

cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the eu

finding acoustical delight in the thock

living with linux and android after two decades of apple

visions of the future

introducing omakub

why i retired from the tech crusades

linux as the new developer default at 37signals

beautiful motivations

system tests have failed

paranoia and desperation in the ai gold rush

open source is neither a community nor a democracy

meta is shutting down workplace

the endangered state of normality

dei is done (minus the mop up)

hating apple goes mainstream

the last railsconf

we're moving continuous integration back to developer machines

i could have been happy with windows

the gift of ambition

villains may live long enough to become heroes

as we forgive those who trespass against us

we are a place of business

forcing master to main was a good faith exploit

imperfections create connections

enough problems to go around

you're not guaranteed a spot on the team

chart the course, set the pace, hold the line

beware the leviathans

developers are on edge

be less precious