Rails originator roasted over Rust boosterism
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, posted benchmark results on Sunday claiming AI-agent rewrites of his company's Campfire group chat app in Rust, Go, and Elixir outperformed the orig…
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, posted benchmark results on Sunday claiming AI-agent rewrites of his company's Campfire group chat app in Rust, Go, and Elixir outperformed the orig…
Basecamp programmer Stanko built the HEY CLI, its TUI, supporting API, SDK and ActionCable client with Rob over one week using entirely AI-generated "vibe-coded" code that no human reviewed beyond ini…
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, had coding agents port 37signals' Campfire chat app to Rust, and repository benchmarks run October 1st show the Rust version serving a room page at …
AI agents can safely customize existing Mac and Windows desktops when given scoped, limited control through tools with readable config files and documented commands, such as Aerospace on Mac, Apple Sh…
Omarchy, the keyboard-first Linux desktop built on Arch and Hyprland by David Heinemeier Hansson, has moved its production pipeline, packaging builds, PR review agents, and QA testing to DigitalOcean.…
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, released Omarchy, a free and open-source Arch Linux-based distribution that ships ten AI coding-agent command-line tools p…
The Omacom Foundation, the nonprofit behind DHH's Omarchy Linux, has raised roughly $15.5 million in total pledges as of early September 2026, including about $13.5 million in cash and $1.95 million i…
Ikey Doherty, creator of Solus and AerynOS, has come out of retirement to build Barney, a Rust-based tool for building Linux distros from source, in response to the $13 million in pledges behind DHH's…
Omarchy, a Linux distribution backed by investors including David Heinemeier Hansson, has raised close to $15 million, according to its website. The distro combines Arch Linux with its own repositorie…
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails framework and CTO of 37signals, told Lex Fridman in a five-hour interview posted August 26 that AI agents wrote all the code shipped in Omarchy Q…
Omarchy, a Linux distribution created by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), is currently the best at capitalizing on AI momentum, according to a Hacker News discussion. However, the author criticizes Oma…
Omarchy 4 (Quattro), an Arch-based Linux distribution created by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), shipped August 14 as the first Linux desktop built around AI coding agents, treating them as operating …
Omarchy's upcoming release, Quattro (4.0), will integrate AI agents into the Linux desktop, a move its creator David Heinemeier Hansson says will 'truly democratize Linux' and boost developer adoption…
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, said in an August 11th post on X that working with AI has restored a creative urgency he had not felt since his ea…
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, discussed the release of Basecamp 5, his evolving stance on AI-assisted development, and the future of Rails in a podcast …
Basecamp released its fifth major version, an update to the project management service used by about one million users daily. The new version introduces a text editor with tables and markdown, full ke…