About
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) is the creator of Ruby on Rails, co-founder & CTO at 37signals (creators of Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE), a New York Times best-selling author, and a Le Mans class-winning racing driver.
He is co-author of iconic business and management books including Rework, Remote, It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, and Getting Real. Throughout his career, he has been a prominent advocate for software simplicity, sustainable bootstrapping, open-source software, and exiting the public cloud.
On his personal blog HEY World (world.hey.com/dhh), he shares candid essays on software architecture, company culture, cloud economics, AI agents, and independent tech development.
You can also find David Heinemeier Hansson on:
- Website: https://world.hey.com/dhh
- Twitter: @dhh
- GitHub: dhh
- Email: [email protected]
Articles
- Endless execution
- I'm sorry, Dave
- Sitting down with Senra
- Wolves, sheep, and gypsies
- Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live
- Dell is on a roll with the XPS
- The will to power will return
- But Y
- European Delusions & Danish Drones
- The Rape of Britain
- A pond of interesting problems
- Let the agents democratize open source
- Basecamp Five
- Celebrating computers at Omacon
- The malleable computer
- Panther Lake is the real deal
- Basecamp becomes agent accessible
- Denmark desperately needs more inequality
- ONCE (Again)
- Omacon comes to New York
- 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 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