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Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder & CTO at Basecamp (formerly 37signals), NYT Best-selling author of REWORK and REMOTE, and Le Mans class-winning racing driver.

Chicago, USA
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Joined April 2008
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    4 Nov 2015

    RECONSIDER : (had to cancel my appearance, but you still deserve the talk!)

    68 replies 615 retweets 963 likes
  2. 18 hours ago

    In practice, civil asset forfeiture is much, much uglier than the theory behind it.

    27 replies 914 retweets 759 likes
  3. Feb 10

    Iran has been chanting "Death to America" ever since the US overthrew their democratically elected president in 1953 & installed a fascist.

    Iran chanting "Death to America" is another example of how society is breaking down across the world thanks to Trump. This is on his hands.
    101 replies 2,108 retweets 3,761 likes
  4. Feb 11

    It's not so hard, . To bribe influencers with 💥 phones, just do the minimum and send an email. Generic pitch won't show. 👌

    3 replies 3 retweets 20 likes
  5. Feb 11

    Why do I somehow doubt that has actually been "enjoying my content" and rather just trawled for high follower counts? 🙄👎

    1 reply 4 retweets 46 likes
  6. Feb 11

    Also, what fun it's been to really go deep with the Leica Q. The perfect travel camera.

    4 replies 2 retweets 36 likes
  7. Feb 11

    Almost as refreshing as this view is the incredibly poor internet access and upside time zone. ❤ Seychelles 👌

    8 replies 4 retweets 68 likes
  8. Feb 10

    We need to depend *less* on each other at work, not more. Fewer dependencies →

    “Do you do a lot of waiting around at work? Not waiting because there’s nothing to do, but waiting on someone else to do something first so you can do something second?” from “Depend less on each other” by Jason Fried.
    3 replies 98 retweets 175 likes
  9. Feb 10

    Today is the last day to apply to intern this summer. We hope you'll join us for a great summer. Info at:

    3 replies 9 retweets 9 likes
  10. Feb 10

    For the Danes 🇩🇰👍

    cool to see you feature on this weekends edition of
    2 replies 1 retweet 37 likes
  11. Feb 9

    Armchair psychology from : webdevs historically treated as Not Real Programmers; led to overengineered tools. "Look how smart we are!"

    4 replies 52 retweets 127 likes
  12. Feb 9

    How can anyone call this inspiring instead of seeing it for the nightmare mad max shit that it is.

    30 replies 730 retweets 1,289 likes
  13. Feb 9

    ? cc:

    Botched US raid in Yemen resulted in deaths of *25 civilians* - inc nine young children & eight women, villagers say
    20 replies 384 retweets 413 likes
  14. Feb 7

    McConnell on Warren: "She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted" Great life advice

    155 replies 2,183 retweets 4,818 likes
  15. Feb 8

    Join as our new programmer,

    “This is a position for an experienced Rails programmer, but you don’t have to be a rock star, a ninja, or a superhero to apply. In fact, if you self-identify in any of those categories, we’d rather you don’t!” from “Join Basecamp as our new Rails programmer” by DHH.
    19 replies 107 retweets 243 likes
  16. Feb 7

    Paris will spin you round and round 😄

    2 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
  17. Feb 6

    Witness 👉 is driving Active Record in Rails 5. A journey of 520 PRs:

    3 replies 31 retweets 65 likes
  18. Feb 6

    Demonization works best when its targets are invisible, distant and unknown. Visibility and familiarity are the best antidotes.

    The story of an Omaha man who hated Muslims…until some Syrian refugees became his neighbors.
    47 replies 1,143 retweets 1,688 likes
  19. Feb 6

    Trump is a master at making his cohorts and supporters lower themselves ever deeper into the abyss by having them commit to obvious lies. 👹

    Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.
    3 replies 29 retweets 62 likes
  20. Feb 6

    I think it was around the same time that we imagined new kinds of love would grow when Apple Watch owners would tap ❤'s to each other. 😍

    3 replies 1 retweet 19 likes
  21. Feb 6

    Remember when quartz movements—eh, I mean smart watches—were going to kill the Swiss mechanical watch industry? 😂

    10 replies 3 retweets 51 likes

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