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DHH
Personal blog · loudthinking.comprogrammingweb
DHH's personal blog at loudthinking.com covers programming and web. Since 2007, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “Twitter trouble - handling 11,000 requests per second w/ Rails!”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, creator of Omarchy, co-owner of 37signals, best-selling author, Le Mans class-winning racing driver, investor in Danish startups, Shopify board member, frequent podcast guest, and family man.
Most-linked posts?
- Twitter trouble - handling 11,000 requests per second w/ Rails!3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2007-04-12
- Work on what you use and share the rest2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-12-24
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-07
- Myth #2: Rails is expected to crash 400 times/day2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-11-13
- /posts/15-potty-mouths2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-21
- DHH on the pluses of PHP2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-03
What Hacker News says?
I think it all started with Joel's "Language Wars" article http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html for which DHH responded with "Fear, Uncertain, and Doubt by Joel Spolsky" http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000596.html . They have been at loggerheads since then.
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on “Facebook is not worth $33 billion”Submitted Git's avalanche as a story · 39 points
HN discussionFrom http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000270.html : Disclaimer: I know the programmer. I've been pretty heavily involved with the development process by helping to determine, prioritize, and test features. I have no financial involvement, however. All my work and hype are small tributes to the awesome archievement that is TextMate. I feel blessed to be able to help it gain traction
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on “Working on It (TextMate)”Submitted DHH addresses Dreamhost's criticism of Rails as a story · 39 points
HN discussionThis article is from 2005. It's quite likely that Basecamp's downtime was around a week per year. At that time, Rails was expected to have ~400 restarts a day[1] ;) [1] http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/31-myth-2-rails-is-expecte...
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on “Don’t scale: 99.999% uptime is for Wal-Mart”Submitted Alpha male programmers aren't keeping women out as a story · 38 points
HN discussionFor some context, Mike Gunderloy (author of this article) is an extremely prolific rails activist and community member. This is not some random unknown making a fuss, it's a very well respected, very active, very productive member of the rails community making a pretty pointed statement and putting his money where his mouth is. Some further background: http://dyepot-teapot.com/2009/04/25/dear-fellow-rubyists/ http:/…
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on “A Painful Decision”Submitted DHH on the pluses of PHP as a story · 37 points
HN discussionThey actually can. E.g. to start a WordPress site, one can do with a shared hosting with an ftp access. With FireFTP for Firefox, you don't have to leave the browser. You can install WordPress by just copying it over, as well all the plugins and themes you need. This level of simplicity of deployment is a good thing to have for any project. Even David Heinemeier Hansson have commented positively on the immediacy of…
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on “How do I install Arc to get a Hacker News clone website?”Submitted DHH: Think of emails as views delivered through SMTP as a story · 36 points
HN discussionDo you by chance have the link to his article? My google-fo seems week. http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/2-getting-back-to-the-foil
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on “Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies?”Submitted The Rails Myths as a story · 34 points
HN discussionPlease keep me out of the clean feed. I'd rather miss out on a few can't-listen-to-the-word-fuck-in-my-headphones-without-trouble-at-work folks and have the original content presented as is. (See potty mouths for more on this: http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/15-potty-mouths )
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on “New Ruby podcast. Guests include DHH, Obie Fernandez, Ryan Bates and more.”Submitted We need both engineers and artists in programming as a story · 33 points
HN discussionThey've done a lot of cool things, and are very talented. However, I think that they "jumped the shark" when they charged $20... twenty dollars ... for a PDF version of their book (that isn't really a book... no ISBN), and had the gall to tell Tim O'Reilly that in addition to everything else, they were going to reinvent publishing: http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/2006_04.html His links are all broken, though... and…
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on “37Signals and the Paradox of Success”Submitted DHH: The silent majority as a story · 27 points
HN discussioni think a lot of the advice the 37signals guys give would be good to hear. their basecamp wasn't the first or "best" of its kinda but the founding team makes great arguments as to why it was the best that could be offered. check out http://37signals.com/ and the samples from their book REWORK or maybe check out DHH's site http://www.loudthinking.com/ . while i wouldn't agree with all of his thoughts (at all), he doe…
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on “I just discovered an overwhelming competitor”Submitted DHH: Sun surprises at RailsConf Europe 2007 as a story · 20 points
HN discussionagain, I wasn't trying to bash DHH. Just adding some humor to my search for the very hard to find quote I'm still looking for. But if you wonder why DHH seems to attract character assassins, look no further than how he signed off from his Christmas Eve post http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/36-work-on-what-you-use-an... "So kumbaja motherfuckers and merry christmas!" That's a great way to tick off a billion or so pe…
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on “Ask HN: Alan Kay or DHH?”Submitted Work on what you use and share the rest as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSee "choose a single layer of cleverness" at http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/2005_09.html (can't permalink because he partially recovered from a crash).
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on “How To Use Triggers to Track Changes in MySQL”Submitted Why there's no Rails Inc as a story · 15 points
HN discussionDisagree. It seems more like they've optimized one part of their infrastructure, so now a new bottleneck has popped up. Par for the course when you're optimizing anything... Oh, and this interview was discussed by DHH on his blog: http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000608.html The comments were interesting, especially one from Alex Payne (the Twitter dev himself). Here is an excerpt. Visit the link above to read the fu…
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on “5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne”Submitted Myth #6: Rails only speaks English as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI agree. There is some truth in it though, especially if you also read DHH's post on Twitter trouble: http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000608.html
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on “Scaling to multiple databases with Rails”Submitted DHH's response to "7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails" as a story · 12 points
HN discussionhttp://www.loudthinking.com/posts/18-rackspace-trouble-knock...
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on “Basecamp website down?”Submitted Twitter trouble - handling 11,000 requests per second w/ Rails! as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIt doesn't seem like we are going to have the same types of issues with scaling web apps as people in other industries are going to have. I can see why it will be hard for games and other high performance applications to scale to multiple cores, but web servers work quite nicely in this setup, so I'm not to worried about it myself. http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/7-multi-core-hysteria-and-...
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on “Intel says to prepare for 'thousands of cores' ”Submitted Three years with Ruby on Rails as a story · 9 points
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