I wrote a post about DHH fash speedrun and crashout.

DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis

https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/

Crush Fascism.

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DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis

Couple weeks ago Cloudflare announced it would be sponsoring some Open Source projects. Throwing money at pet projects of random techbros would hardly be news, but there was a certain vibe behind them and the people leading them. In an unexpected turn of events, the millionaire receiving money from the billion-dollar company, thought it would...

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@alatiera
Oh my god this was one of the worst blog posts I've read in a while.

I'm no DHH fan but this writing was absolutely childish and misleading. Everything is skewed and it feels like a middleschool launch table roast battle.

For example this blog claims he had a post saying "andrew tate is awesome"
I clicked on the link. Nowhere in the post was he claiming such thing.
He was talking about equality of free speech which is absolutely right.
Even though I hate andrew tate, his take was a balanced take on such situation.

DHH is popular, successful, and had a big role in the of web technologies.
He has created actual things, actual value. Everyone seem to actually like Omarchy even not knowing who DHH is.
I don't know him, he might be an absolute piece of evil shit (so far I haven't seen that. Just different views from me) but he's creating value.

People love to hate, eh?

@alavi @alatiera have you read other posts from DHH?
It seems you're defending somebody who despise people who are not white living in a country where they are not originally from.

Read DHH take on this subject, it is vile.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250926070158/https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

(A archive.org link because he doesn't more clicks)

As I remember London

As soon as I was old enough to travel on my own, London was where I wanted to go. Compared to Copenhagen at the time, there was something so majestic about Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, and even the Tube around the turn of the millenium. Not just because their capital is twice as old as ours, but because it endured twice as much, through ...

@dolanor @alatiera
I don't follow the drama and I don't care to.
I'm not defending DHH the person, I'm defending his technical work.
I'm bashing the writing of this extremely childish blog post. Nothing good ever comes out of skewing things and attacking projects because of their creator.
I couldn't care less if DHH is having a midlife crisis or whatever.
He has horrible views (according to me, you or the next person?)? Maybe I have horrible views according to someone else.
The link you sent won't open but if that's actually what he says and not the interpretation of us from it, that's a horrible thing to say. But we can say horrible things, can't we? Until those horrible things become actions, there is no problem.
What happened to the freedom of speech, y'all?

Is omarchy good or bad? Is ruby on rails good or bad?
Debate the technical points.
Pulling each other's hair out over sissy drama never gets us any good.

Again, couldn't care less about DHH. But this type of gossip writing really frustrates me.

@alavi @alatiera

excerpt: "
The easy way out of this uncomfortably large gathering of perfectly normal, peaceful Brits".
This "peaceful" protest had people in it saying they would wait on the shore of England and kill migrant right there. Or that they would just stab brown people in the street.
I don't call that peaceful, I call that hateful, the willingness to kill somebody else.

So DHH is clearly skewing things his way as well.

Freedom of speech is alright, but it's not free from consequences. And if somebody say hateful things, they can't be surprised to have people disgusted by them. And they can't play the victim card.

And to stay technical: Rails was a good idea, and I guess still is. That doesn't automatically gives the author an immunity pass to be a dickhead.
Omarchy, from what I read is just a bunch of shell script to automate some installation of extra packages out of an ArchLinux. And just `curl | sh` ing stuff that are not packaged in arch linux. So nothing really otherwordly deserving praises. It's just another linux that doesn't share improvement to the original (Arch Linux).
And it packages Grok in it, which a few days back was calling itself MechaHitler.
So, how come this get 24K€ in grants from Cloudflare, when projects like Gnome or KDE don't even get half?
The guy is already a fucking millionaire, does he need this money personally?

I mean, I just don't know how much dog whistle you need to see the problem. He garnered a huge following, thanks to Rails, and now he's just using this to share more and more fascist ideas and make money out of it.
And it's not a sissy drama, it's fascism rising alarmingly everywhere and this needs to be stopped and not just looked at from the sidelines hoping we're not the next target.

@alavi @alatiera is Hans Reiser a great guy because he made a great File System, or we should also tell him he's awful because he's killed his wife?
Should we just ignore that fact because ReiserFS was really good?
@dolanor @alavi @alatiera if you ask me: "if a Fascist is a great poet, I'd shot him anyway".