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DHH
Writes about Revenue. 87% of posts open with an observation. A typical post reaches 347 likes.
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| Post | Topic | Likes | Replies | Reposts | Score | Posted | Actions |
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| @dhhFable one-shotted a Rust rewrite of the TerminalTextEffects Python library in 11M tokens. … | Engineering | 12K | 295 | — | 71 | ||
| @dhhSo obviously we both furiously signup for the fucking $25/month credit-check bullshit shak… | Growth | 4.1K | 39 | — | 45 | ||
| @dhhCloud marketing convinced a generation of programmers that the scariest thing in the world… | Marketing | 3.8K | 112 | — | 56 | ||
| @dhhFive business books that lit a bulb 💡 - Blue Ocean Strategy: Build something novel. - Mav… | Founder | 3.7K | 35 | — | 45 | ||
| @dhhShocking difference between the 7b and 32b versions of DeekSeek R1 for programming. Asked … | AI | 3.7K | 91 | — | 51 | ||
| @dhhLet’s no forget why this college admission scandal is a thing: Because so many American co… | Marketing | 3.6K | 55 | — | 44 | ||
| @dhhI think it's great that all the model providers are coming out with their own CLIs, but le… | AI | 3.5K | 169 | — | 56 | ||
| @dhhAnd the best defense of all: THAT’S JUST HOW THE CREDIT INDUSTRY WORKS. Ehh, okay? How is … | Founder | 3K | 24 | — | 43 | ||
| @dhhGoogle is not a search engine, it’s an ad engine. You search to find stuff, they respond w… | Marketing | 2.8K | 134 | — | 43 | ||
| @dhhFound my new PC 😍. Specs on the AMD Max+ 395 chip is insane. CPU is a close match for a M… | AI | 2.4K | 105 | — | 49 | ||
| @dhhThe customer service experience is infuriating too. They’re quick to respond, but nobody i… | Revenue | 2.2K | 18 | — | 41 | ||
| @dhhLook, open-space offices may be necessary for some companies, if they can’t afford private… | Career | 2.1K | 35 | — | 41 | ||
| @dhhApple's loss in court is immediately opening up a whole new world for app developers. Enti… | AI | 2.1K | 45 | — | 47 | ||
| @dhhI wasn’t even pessimistic to expect this outcome, but here we are: @AppleCard just gave my… | Revenue | 2K | 13 | — | 40 | ||
| @dhhApple exodus set to continue. This is the price of keeping a bean counter at the head for … | Hiring | 2K | 84 | — | 51 | ||
| @dhhThe mid-life crisis gets an undeservedly bad rep. It's the first time many people face the… | Lessons | 2K | 43 | — | 40 | ||
| @dhhThis is the soft undermining of people’s sense of self. The algorithm might discriminate o… | Health | 1.9K | 14 | — | 40 | ||
| @dhhGreat example of why you shouldn’t use abbreviations in code. Especially ones that can be … | Engineering | 1.9K | 63 | — | 40 | ||
| @dhhI’ll go even more blunt: Any job where having kids is “terrible for your career” is a terr… | Career | 1.7K | 21 | — | 39 | ||
| @dhhIf having kids is stunting your career or forcing you into 5 hours of sleep, work is doing… | Lessons | 1.5K | 44 | — | 39 | ||
| @dhhI love the models Anthropic are offering, but I seriously hope it's a mistake that they're… | AI | 1.4K | 97 | — | 48 | ||
| @dhhIt’s such a pleasure to be in the company of @martinfowler’s Refactoring book again. Whe… | Engineering | 1.3K | 24 | — | 38 | ||
| @dhhI just hoped back on Kimi K2.7 for some work yesterday. Hadn't been using it since GPT 5.6… | AI | 1.3K | 44 | — | 47 | ||
| @dhhEntrepreneurs who sleep more are more creative, better at evaluating new business opportun… | Health | 1.3K | 29 | — | 38 | ||
| @dhhWriting code for human understanding is a critical baseline, but it’s possible to strive b… | Engineering | 1.2K | 15 | — | 37 | ||
| @dhhThis is also a good one. Our apparent discrimination is a product of a proprietary algorit… | Product | 1.2K | 64 | — | 38 | ||
| @dhhBasecamp has been paying at the top 10% of San Francisco market rates for a while now (bas… | Founder | 1.2K | 24 | — | 37 | ||
| @dhhThe WhatsApp founder interview is fascinating. The regret is dripping. So yeah, you got ri… | Founder | 1.1K | 18 | — | 36 | ||
| @dhhInstacart is using tips from customers to avoid paying workers a salary. One worker got pa… | Revenue | 1K | 65 | — | 37 | ||
| @dhhRelease candidate for Rails 6 is out! It includes Action Mailbox, Action Text, multi-db su… | Hiring | 983 | 17 | — | 35 | ||
| @dhhThis is frustrating. We'd so much rather spend our money providing Basecamp for free for p… | Marketing | 921 | 68 | — | 36 | ||
| @dhhIt doesn't take a data scientist to spot the fact that we launched Basecamp Personal yeste… | Science | 902 | 23 | — | 35 | ||
| @dhhI've given Apple a lot of grief lately, but it brings me no pain to say that this might be… | Growth | 897 | 28 | — | 40 | ||
| @dhhThis perverse obsession with keeping employees at work for the maximum number of hours per… | Lessons | 797 | 40 | — | 35 | ||
| @dhhMost Americans would be so lucky as to have a EU-style “retirement” life. One where work s… | Growth | 797 | 31 | — | 34 | ||
| @dhhI went to a specialist for a checkup on a thyroid issue here in Spain this week. It includ… | Energy | 783 | 111 | — | 36 | ||
| @dhh“Then I started sleeping [10 hours a night] and, next thing you know, I hit 30 homers afte… | Health | 761 | 21 | — | 34 | ||
| @dhhI used to occasionally post pictures of our kids on the internet. I grew to regret doing s… | Revenue | 759 | 48 | — | 35 | ||
| @dhhI've been happily using DDG for months now. It's really quite good. And so is this pitch f… | Founder | 729 | 28 | — | 34 | ||
| @dhhAnchoring salary negotiations around what someone was paid previously, so you can get away… | Revenue | 722 | 12 | — | 33 | ||
| @dhhI continue working on Basecamp because it allows me to do several of my favorite things: W… | Engineering | 707 | 7 | — | 33 | ||
| @dhhIf the Snapdragon X Elite is the real deal, Apple could legit be in real trouble with deve… | Revenue | 666 | 82 | — | 40 | ||
| @dhhI'm shocked that it's legal for Tesla to promote this "after savings" bullshit number that… | Revenue | 663 | 67 | — | 34 | ||
| @dhh“If I could do it over again, I’d study less”, solid conclusion of a straight-A seeker. I … | Hiring | 614 | 39 | — | 33 | ||
| @dhhWe are hiring a senior programmer to our security, infrastructure & performance team at Ba… | Hiring | 610 | 29 | — | 33 | ||
| @dhhApple seriously misjudged the risk to its brand by getting into the credit business. When … | Marketing | 595 | 20 | — | 32 | ||
| @dhhPredictim‘s black-box algorithm analyzes babysitters‘ social media accounts, reducing them… | Hiring | 594 | 22 | — | 32 | ||
| @dhhThere’s no way a welfare state like Denmark could afford to sponsor $200,000-per-student e… | Revenue | 575 | 14 | — | 32 | ||
| @dhhThe Omarchy 4 branch is now 30,000 lines of new code. The majority of it was written by GP… | AI | 536 | 24 | — | 40 | ||
| @dhhI’ve been buying almost everything from Amazon for so long that I failed to realize how go… | Lessons | 510 | 34 | — | 32 | ||
| @dhhIt used to be a sign of pride for the boss not to be a harried, sleep-deprived mess of a h… | Health | 497 | 6 | — | 31 | ||
| @dhhHiring pro tip: When applying for a job posted online, don't scour the internet to find a … | Hiring | 488 | 26 | — | 31 | ||
| @dhhNew iPad Pro within spitting distance of the fastest Mac laptop you can buy, even on multi… | Hiring | 480 | 28 | — | 31 | ||
| @dhhAction Text is coming to Rails 6! Rich text editing and display by virtue of the Trix edit… | Creative | 476 | 19 | — | 31 | ||
| @dhhMaybe if you weren’t so tired all the time, you’d have time to read a book. I strongly rec… | Health | 471 | 10 | — | 30 | ||
| @dhhI know this is early, and political enthusiasm has died a thousand deaths for our exuberan… | Hiring | 455 | 33 | — | 31 | ||
| @dhhIt's pretty close to claiming that "the true price is just an opinion". That's some seriou… | Revenue | 447 | 22 | — | 31 | ||
| @dhhIt reads like a fucking parody, but apparently no. This is @naval's new company. Aren't yo… | Revenue | 437 | 13 | — | 30 | ||
| @dhhI love how once a decade the VC class comes to the epiphany that “actually, sustainable pr… | Founder | 433 | 8 | — | 30 | ||
| @dhhChat is like salt. A pinch does wonders for team cohesion, but more than that and you ruin… | Hiring | 432 | 12 | — | 30 | ||
| @dhhThis is how it’s supposed to work! When your influence and impact grows, your obligations … | Product | 426 | 5 | — | 30 | ||
| @dhhI'm not often ashamed of our work at @basecamp. But today is one such day. To be stuck in … | Lessons | 416 | 25 | — | 30 | ||
| @dhhAnd, just like programming, if you’re building the same cookie cutter house over and over … | Science | 407 | 8 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhh"Applying for a job is hard. Every time you don’t hear back, you can lose a tiny little so… | Hiring | 400 | 16 | — | 30 | ||
| @dhhFacebook may well be exceptionally nasty and it’s leadership particularly deceitful, but t… | Marketing | 398 | 14 | — | 30 | ||
| @dhhAnd of course, I didn’t actually pay that $10k as a student. The Danish state paid ME to a… | Revenue | 397 | 7 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhhWhich of course is the conclusion of anyone who actually examines the data. Google used to… | Marketing | 386 | 16 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhhVenture capital is a pressure cooker. It’s neigh-on impossible to make it through that wit… | Growth | 385 | 4 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhhSilicon Valley definition of "success" distilled: 1) Only monopolistic, exponential growth… | Growth | 381 | 17 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhhApple ($1.18T) could buy Goldman Sachs ($77B) in an all-stock deal and still be worth a tr… | Revenue | 380 | 18 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhh"But I like relevant ads!" is a weird way of saying "I like that advertisers know where I … | Marketing | 378 | 10 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhhFive novels I think about all the time - 1984: States crave control - The Trial: Bureaucra… | Science | 366 | 7 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhhGoogle is slowly but surely choking the web. This is what monopoly power inevitably leads … | Growth | 364 | 14 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhh“If you don’t work harder, if you don’t work longer, THE COMMUNISTS WILL WIN” is such a ca… | Founder | 356 | 6 | — | 28 | ||
| @dhhBut to choose a different path, you must first be aware that a different path exists. That… | Founder | 354 | 9 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhhHey, @tim_cook, why do you feel like Apple needs $21m in corporate welfare from the city o… | AI | 347 | 15 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhhBut what a great reminder to reminder to stay humble. I created the damn framework, and I … | Lessons | 346 | 22 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhhFive political/economics books that 🌅 🧠 - Origins of Political Order: Civilization = ins… | Growth | 344 | 6 | — | 28 | ||
| @dhhSafari's "Read Later" feature might as well pipe straight to trash. It's function is entir… | Product | 343 | 39 | — | 30 | ||
| @dhhThe ban on tracking and ads in games for kids can’t come soon enough. But @Apple, while yo… | Marketing | 341 | 14 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhhA common defense for venture capital is that “it’s just a tool! / Use it when you need it!… | Revenue | 340 | 10 | — | 28 | ||
| @dhhYou’re a better leader when you’re calm and well rested. When you have the surplus of ener… | Energy | 339 | 6 | — | 28 | ||
| @dhh“In one study of 24 employees, cognitive scores were 50% lower when the participants were … | Science | 331 | 9 | — | 28 | ||
| @dhhYou got into technology because you liked computers and helping people use them better. No… | Defence | 317 | 9 | — | 28 | ||
| @dhh“I’m really sorry I called you a pedo. You helped save those kids, and you deserve a medal… | AI | 313 | 12 | — | 28 | ||
| @dhhLikewise, I don't mind seeing an ad for a new Toyota if I'm watching a show about cars on … | Marketing | 311 | 5 | — | 27 | ||
| @dhhWorking remotely takes some practice, but the majority of the lessons are a subset of HOW … | Career | 311 | 10 | — | 28 | ||
| @dhhSo. Maybe at least a portion of the (justified) outrage over this college admissions scand… | Marketing | 310 | 4 | — | 27 | ||
| @dhhI ran out of free articles on @wired, and instead of just reaching instinctively for incog… | Revenue | 309 | 11 | — | 28 | ||
| @dhhWouldn’t it be great if all new drama series were rated on a scale of last-episode regret.… | Lessons | 308 | 27 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhhThis is exactly what happens when venture capital gets involved. Suddenly taking a 5% cut … | Founder | 305 | 5 | — | 27 | ||
| @dhhSheesh. The font rendering alone may make this a short experiment. Crikey it's fugly. But … | Science | 305 | 31 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhhApple is underestimating the huge pain in the fucking ass it is to deal with Apple support… | Revenue | 300 | 42 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhhThere are so many job openings at the moment. Why shouldn't employees be able to screen co… | Hiring | 295 | 20 | — | 28 | ||
| @dhh(That’s before we even get into the utter recklessness of driving to work while seriously … | Health | 295 | 14 | — | 28 | ||
| @dhhI don't think we're going to reform most of the minds infected with a GROWTH UBER ALLES id… | Growth | 293 | 5 | — | 27 | ||
| @dhhBut at least plumbers, electricians, painters, and other trade people rarely go around moa… | AI | 292 | 3 | — | 27 | ||
| @dhhIt's not that WeWork invented the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea of open offic… | SaaS | 288 | 17 | — | 28 | ||
| @dhhApple isn't Xerox. And clearly there are many people who care deeply about the product the… | Product | 280 | 9 | — | 27 | ||
| @dhhWhile we're going over the crimes of Apple's computer choices lately, check this out: The … | Build in public | 278 | 18 | — | 28 | ||
| @dhh“We want every website, whether it’s e-commerce or anything to be powered by WordPress” is… | Retail | 275 | 25 | — | 28 | ||
| @dhhBut it's also a fair warning to the future customers of whatever health device Apex is pro… | Revenue | 268 | 1 | — | 26 | ||
| @dhhSo I completely support this petition for Apple to do right by the customers who got screw… | Revenue | 266 | 11 | — | 27 | ||
| @dhhPretty ballsy of Dropbox to claim that I'm getting an improved plan just because the stora… | Founder | 265 | 20 | — | 27 | ||
| @dhhSpying on users has been normalized to the point that even TV makers hardly think twice ab… | AI | 261 | 22 | — | 28 | ||
| @dhhInstacart has raised $2 billion in vulture capital. Yet they still need to steal tips from… | Founder | 253 | 16 | — | 27 | ||
| @dhhWe've handed the manuscript to It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work over to copyediting. Yo… | Creative | 244 | 9 | — | 26 | ||
| @dhhI love how vc twitter is all up in arms about me throwing jabs like "zombie capital", then… | Founder | 240 | 19 | — | 27 | ||
| @dhhGotta say that buying one was delightfully simple compared to the shitshow that is the App… | Revenue | 240 | 16 | — | 27 | ||
| @dhh“We just need another ethical Facebook!” is an understandable but ultimately wrong answer.… | Marketing | 239 | 14 | — | 26 | ||
| @dhhIt reminds me of the shitty, condescending question women have to deal with all the time: … | Revenue | 232 | 12 | — | 26 | ||
| @dhhThe most surprising part of Sandberg's defense of the root-cert spying program is that "on… | Hiring | 231 | 7 | — | 26 | ||
| @dhhHODL but for a democratic society that is the opposite of every crypto miner and mercenary… | Materials | 229 | 27 | — | 27 | ||
| @dhhBut either way, this change is still huge. The bulk of the revenue for most developers com… | Revenue | 229 | 6 | — | 29 | ||
| @dhhI mean just look at this shit!! I don’t fault companies for trying to market attentional s… | Career | 227 | 12 | — | 26 | ||
| @dhhAmen. Reaching for microservices is like writing convoluted code because a performance bot… | Engineering | 226 | 7 | — | 26 | ||
| @dhhIt’s heartwarming to receive so much positive feedback on these recent job postings becaus… | Hiring | 219 | 3 | — | 25 | ||
| @dhhSo next time you think: hey, I should get that on Amazon, just stop for a second. Find the… | Retail | 214 | 10 | — | 25 | ||
| @dhh"Once we searched Google, but now Google searches us. Once we thought of digital services … | Hiring | 214 | 3 | — | 25 | ||
| @dhhMusk builds an impractical mini-sub for the Thai rescue that nobody part of the mission wa… | Hiring | 210 | 28 | — | 27 | ||
| @dhhWhen we keep advocating for the debt that open-source users supposedly owe to maintainers,… | Engineering | 207 | 5 | — | 25 | ||
| @dhhAnd Google of course does nothing. We filed for trademark protection three months ago, whi… | Marketing | 207 | 10 | — | 25 | ||
| @dhhApple is rejecting an update to the @basecamp app in part because our app include a link t… | Revenue | 203 | 24 | — | 26 | ||
| @dhhI suppose an ad like that is likely to attract people who are just as delusional as the au… | Engineering | 202 | 7 | — | 25 | ||
| @dhhThis is a stain on GitHub that'll be hard to wash out. When Microsoft bought the company, … | Marketing | 202 | 17 | — | 26 | ||
| @dhhWhat really sinks this turd of a defense is using charity as an indulgence. If working wit… | Defence | 202 | 6 | — | 25 | ||
| @dhhJason raised our frustrations months ago. But that doesn't really change anything. Venture… | Founder | 201 | 5 | — | 25 | ||
| @dhhA far more pressing problem than “how do we beat China” is “how do we fix the US”. More gr… | Growth | 195 | 10 | — | 25 | ||
| @dhhMercedes pulls back on self-driving cars due to a “newfound realization that it will be so… | Health | 190 | 20 | — | 26 | ||
| @dhhOnly in Silicon Valley can you brag about being almost profitable after 13 years while rec… | Career | 190 | 14 | — | 25 | ||
| @dhhSo WeWork has dumped their founder and CEO, but unless the super-voting shares he holds ar… | Founder | 189 | 9 | — | 25 | ||
| @dhhThat’s the point I keep making with Basecamp too. The enduring achievement was a sustainab… | Revenue | 184 | 6 | — | 24 | ||
| @dhhAt Basecamp we've been accosted by government organizations wishing to purchase our produc… | Product | 184 | 5 | — | 24 | ||
| @dhhAnd would you look at this: The @wsj subscriber hostage team KNOWS THEIR TACTICS ARE ILLEG… | Hiring | 184 | 4 | — | 24 | ||
| @dhh“But this is all semantic tap-dancing, meant to distract from the core problem: Instacart … | Revenue | 183 | 9 | — | 24 | ||
| @dhhThe charge of being “not a team player” because you don’t want to partake in the stupidity… | Hiring | 183 | 19 | — | 25 | ||
| @dhhHolding a living wage as a hostage under the magnificent grace of a customer’s whim is so … | Revenue | 183 | 5 | — | 24 | ||
| @dhhBasecamp isn't hiring very often, so rather than asking interested candidates to refresh a… | Hiring | 182 | 7 | — | 24 | ||
| @dhh“Companies bought by private equity are 10x more likely than comparable companies to go ba… | Founder | 180 | 7 | — | 24 | ||
| @dhhElon: Fuck it. Just close all the stores. BOOM *drops mic named genius* Staff: But what ab… | Hiring | 174 | 9 | — | 24 | ||
| @dhhWe reviewed 2,200 applications for the two open positions in customer service last we had … | Revenue | 173 | 5 | — | 24 | ||
| @dhhThis is what's so sad about the outcome of many venture capital deals. Meetup was profitab… | Revenue | 168 | 6 | — | 24 | ||
| @dhh“The biggest complaint most developers have with Stadia is the fear that Google is just go… | Growth | 167 | 16 | — | 25 | ||
| @dhhIf we break our back giving too much away for free, then at least it will have gone to a g… | Founder | 165 | 3 | — | 23 | ||
| @dhhIt's not just enough to tell users to use password managers, turn on 2FA, and then wash yo… | Revenue | 163 | 6 | — | 23 | ||
| @dhh“Work harder and longer so the same tiny elite of connected entrepreneurs and financiers c… | Growth | 163 | 6 | — | 23 | ||
| @dhhAllowing work to happen at work during normal work hours is the cornerstone of how we get … | Revenue | 157 | 3 | — | 23 | ||
| @dhhSinclair’s principle: It’s difficult for a tech worker to understand something, when their… | Revenue | 157 | 3 | — | 23 | ||
| @dhhThe US has already seen tremendous growth in the past three decades. But just about all of… | Growth | 155 | 6 | — | 23 | ||
| @dhhAnd another one: “You are highly accomplished, but your interview on CNBC just now struck … | Hiring | 153 | 9 | — | 23 | ||
| @dhhTragic. Reddit had that spark of independent hope for so long. Now they’ll surely be doubl… | Founder | 152 | 15 | — | 24 | ||
| @dhhIt’s also a cautionary tale for sleep deprivation, mindless overwork, delusions of The Mis… | Growth | 152 | 1 | — | 22 |