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david celis Sep 19, 2025

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance

Rails Needs New Governance

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

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Flipper 🐬🏳️‍🌈

@davidcelis I was Rails-adjacent for about a year and a half, professionally, in the mid-2010s. That was sufficient for me to learn the following bits of information:
1. The existence of DHH;
2. His relation to RoR; and
3. What a massive self-important dick he was/is.

Imo, the only necessary DHH facts.