“Optimizing for happiness is perhaps the most formative key to Ruby on Rails.”
Why David is the canonical The Developer
DHH created Ruby on Rails, the framework that powered a generation of web products (Shopify, GitHub, Basecamp). He is a canonical developer who built the tooling others used to ship on top of the web platform.
The The Developer implements products and systems on top of foundational technology. Read the full The Developer deep-dive →
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