David Heinemeier Hansson

In the 18th century, 90% of Americans worked in agriculture to feed themselves and the nation.

Two weeks ago at Rails World, I told my fellow programmers that it's time to put down the pencils.

Paradise is not lost, the world is not ending, and most material metrics of humanity have never been better.

The age of agents has brought us endless execution.

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has always been an incredible movie, but its value as a cautionary tale has increased exponentially since AI took off.

Jason and I have been making the same argument for over a quarter of a century now: Small teams can do incredible things when they embrace their constraints.

In 2012, the first Danish wolf in nearly two hundred years was discovered in the northwestern part of the country.

The decline of Europe is not inevitable, despite how much Americans love to joke/proclaim that the continent is doomed to become an open-air museum.

We've been buying servers from Dell since the 2000s at 37signals, but I was never too impressed with their personal computers.

In the 1980s, France started 43 nuclear reactors across 14 sites.

It's no mystery to me why the Tesla Model Y is the world's best-selling car.

Europe is finally waking up from many decades of naive pacifism.

Rupert Lowe, member of the British Parliament and leader of the Restore Britain party, released The Rape Gang Inquiry yesterday.

The great joy of having built a successful business that employs a broad team of talented people is that I get to fish for exactly the kind of problems that most interest me, most of the time.

The open source movement spent decades fighting for everyone's right to change software, through free access to code and permissive licenses to release improvements.

I've been working on Basecamp for half my life, and nearly my entire professional career in software.

Do you see the same truth?

Open source promised that users would be free to change whatever code they were running.

Intel really delivered with Panther Lake.

In the past 18 months, we've experimented with a ton of AI-infused features at 37signals.

The Danish election is tomorrow.

The original concept for ONCE sought to sell self-hostable web apps for a one-time fee.

The vibes around Linux are changing fast.

With OpenClaw you're giving AI its own machine, long-term memory, reminders, and persistent execution.

I fully understand the nostalgia for real ownership of physical-media games.

At the end of last year, AI agents really came alive for me.

One of my favorite parts of the early web was how easy it was to see how the front-end was built.

The gap between Europe's self-image and reality has grown into a chasm of delulu.

Kanban is a simple, practical approach to visually managing processes and backlogs by moving work cards from one progress column to another.

Black Friday is usually when ecommerce sets new records.

It's pretty incredible that we're able to run all these awesome AI models on our own hardware now.

I haven't done a full-system backup since back in the olden days before Dropbox and Git.

The only way many tech workers in the US can get a long break is by quitting their job.