Tweets From DHH  ## Metadata - Author: [[@dhh on Twitter]] - Full Title: Tweets From DHH - Category: #tweets - URL: https://twitter.com/dhh ## Document Notes ## Highlights - This is totally crazy. Like if the operators of rubygems dot org just decided to expropriate the official Rails gems, hand over control to a new team, and lock the core team out of it. We're in uncharted and dangerous territory for open source now. What a sad sight. https://t.co/HdmN3GpyLt ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1845197490829889605)) - Meta takes another win by vanquishing all forms of DEI from the company, effective immediately. May the rest of the laggards in our industry swiftly follow. This was always the real structural racism. Merit is so back 🤘 https://t.co/dz7uF3vgro ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1877803193704362116)) - "If you can't intimidate people into silence and compliance with the woke orthodoxies by threatening their job or their social circle, you might be able to threaten them with actual violence. That's what the "nazi" accusation is there to convey." https://t.co/FOnxKSdXdM ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1970994162515513855)) - This dumb letter, that was never going to go anywhere, hasn't even gathered 50 signatories 😂. Who in the right mind would also sign such an obvious "don't hire me, ever" self-declaration? https://t.co/0XURsBxNh8 ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1971240387265413324)) - @awesomekling Amen. When these tactics were first introduced, they shocked everyone into submission. A social blitzkrieg. But now that we're all wise to the game, there's no surprise advantage any more. I will have your back when they come for you either way, mate ✌️ ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1971308265607922014)) - Hey @jetbrains, you don't have to do this nonsense any more. I fully understand why companies felt cowed into these humiliations, but the woke regime has fallen, so you can stop performing its rites. https://t.co/gcKDi4Nqrj ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1971480881648013679)) - I really hope the nix community can recover from this infiltration of nut jobs and their nonsense, like we have in the Ruby world. There are so many good ideas over there that deserve so much better. https://t.co/BpRHLQmqC0 ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1972004486685380840)) - Watching from the outside, nix seems to have been particularly hard hit by all this nonsense. Such a shame too, the core ideas are incredible. I hope they can be unearthed again from under the dreck. https://t.co/upk7jRhwt7 ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1971829691712668002)) - @jonringer117 @PalmerLuckey @anduriltech That's retarded. Anduril should have been CELEBRATED for supporting nix! And I think it still could be, if @PalmerLuckey and others with a stake in this technology decides to get these nut jobs out. I know he will have the support of @mitchellh and @tobi too (my nix pill pals!). ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1972012145207636337)) - At one point, I thought we were all doomed to suffer the woke theocracy for decades in tech, but then suddenly it was over. There are niche pockets here and there (hello nix!), but the hegemony has ended. What a relief! Now "no, we are not doing that" is again a viable way. https://t.co/Me9dtEtGat ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1971833512396202048)) - From what I understand, Anduril are big users of nix. Maybe @PalmerLuckey can help turn the ship around. It's amazing what a stabilizing force it can be to have the companies with a commercial interest in using OSS help support good governance. ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1972006538454917278)) - The EU Chat Control proposal would be a catastrophe for Europe. It would seal Europeans behind a new digital Berlin wall, cut off from Signal and other e2e messengers. It's embarrassing and dangerous that it's gotten this close already. Time to bail to back to sanity. https://t.co/NxSKl8H0CB ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1974200928074117530)) - So much organizational dysfunction is created by managers who desperately want magic thinking and general policies to relieve them from having tough conversations. https://t.co/ZSl0JAArZa ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1974110023459750043)) - Purity purges quickly eat all perceived enemies, but the feast must go on, so soon they start devouring their friends too. https://t.co/v4NGQUj30v  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1974121619531743684)) - The infamous "fuck you" slide from 2005 is often shared without a shred of context. So here's a minute and a half of me delivering that context with juuuuust the right level of profanity 😄 https://t.co/vvDrCYx0cY ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1974180618457305293)) - Be the David Goggings of candidates when you apply for a job. Dare to put in some effort! Most people mistakenly think it's all just one big lottery. That they don't even have to try. Every time we hire, I see how sorely mistaken they are. https://t.co/ggjJIHB6KH ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1975197956933656600)) - So much corporate red tape can be traced to a single anecdote where someone fucked up and their manager didn't have the balls to tell them directly. So they made a policy instead. Don't be that coward. Just tell Ben. https://t.co/kDp8pTWeiw ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1975835385365471659)) - Real diversity: Whoever shows up is welcome. Real equity: We all help carry the meaningful burden. Real inclusion: Your political opinions are your own. Open source gets better when it's focused on making great software for all, and doesn't obsess over tiresome divisive dogma. ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1976230666414223443)) - The best thing about the authoritarian far-left tactic of calling everyone they're mad at a nazi is how it naturally encloses the fringe. There's no possibility of broad support from such a dogmatic and ideological corner. https://t.co/9oy8Q2dPey  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1976250338274582778)) - Former Ruby Central contractor tried to barter for RubyGems access logs(?!). When denied and terminated, he illegally accessed RG production servers, changed the root password, and now wants people to trust his new gem hosting service. Crazy. https://t.co/sqAIaHtCip ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1976449242073055380)) - Bundler was created by @wycats together with Carl Lerche. Bananas for a later contributor to think they can usurp creatorship by fraudulently claiming trademark. But guess it tracks with illegally accessing servers after termination. Wild though. https://t.co/Anpd2joCwV https://t.co/qxAmxhJhFZ  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1976967104625885459)) - @awesomekling It's a cargo cult at this point. Once upon a time, calling someone a Nazi, racist or fascist was a terrible charge that everyone took very seriously. They still think we are in those times. So they're confused by the missing drops of status and power. https://t.co/XWMy3bpfx7 ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1979598449730294239))