Jake Lazaroff

Yes I absolutely hate DHH as well

and in fact I was using omarchy but then migrated over to cachyos hyprland

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

DHH is not a good guy but the hype around him made me feel so. He's weird and racist and fascist.

Stop the hype around dhh and everyone please read the article everybody here's DHH reality

Let’s ditch the superlatives and review David’s post objectively:

He thinks that even if you were born in the UK, you only count as British if you’re white. He wouldn’t consider living in London specifically because it has too many people of color. He uses racist tropes to accuse Asian men of being dangerous predators who attack white women. He pushes debunked conspiracy theories about immigrants replacing white people. He finds a march where speakers called for banning all non-Christian religions and ethnically cleansing immigrants “heartwarming”. Finally — and maybe most alarmingly — he argues that all of the above is normal and not extreme. You can use whatever word you want to describe all that. But if you, like me, didn’t realize that this is who DHH is, we can probably agree that he’s way worse than we thought.

The above lines were from the article

This guy shouldn't remotely be talked about in a good light imo, yes I appreciate open source but I can't seperate the art from the artist.

I genuinely don't know why they defend this guy.

HN literally flaged this post in literal…

What were the arguments in favour of SPAs in the first place?

I'm finding it interesting that most of the top HN submissions (by popularity) matching "single page app" are critical, not positive. First 15 follow, all but 5 are negative:

- You probably don't need a single-page app (https://journal.plausible.io/you-probably-dont-need-a-single-page-app) 816 points | 6 years ago | 499 comments

- A single-page app is almost always worse than a multi-page app (https://www.gregnavis.com/articles/the-architecture-no-one-needs.html) 289 points | 6 years ago | 145 comments

- The myth that you can’t build interactive web apps except as single page app (https://htmx.org/essays/you-cant/) 262 points | 4 months ago | 143 comments

- Building a single-page app with Htmx (https://jakelazaroff.com/words/building-a-single-page-app-with-htmx/) 252 points | 5 months ago | 143 comments

- AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app (http://lg.io/2015/05/16/the-future-is-now-and-its-using-aws-lambda.html) 229 points | 10 years ago | 73 comments

- Create your own dysfunctional single-page app (https://tinnedfruit.com/articles/create-your-own-dysfunctional-single-page-app.html) 208 points | 6 years ago | 138 comments

- The Single-Page-App Morality Play (https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/single-page-app-morality-play/) 207 points | 3 years ago | 131 comments

- Todos: a Backbone.js example Single-Page-App (with…

Fascism may be the wrong label.

Racism could be a much better fit. The blog post in question: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

The interpretation that raises some pretty interesting points about the inherent racism in the expressed worldview: https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

There is, however, an interpretation that explains how this specific kind of racism can be seen as at least fascism-adjacent: https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance

The question of whether he wants politics in the workplace is moot when he's making public blog posts like this. For the open-source community, the open Internet is the workplace. People aren't just going to pretend DHH didn't say what he said (in public, of his own free will, using his own megaphone) because he didn't post it to ruby-core@ml.ruby-lang.org.

Thank you!

Recurse is amazing. Truly an amazing gathering of accomplished, interesting and curious folks. It’s an amazing community and setting - if you can swing the 6 or 12 weeks, and especially if you can come to the physical space in downtown Brooklyn, I would very much recommend it.

Lots of Recursers end up on the HN homepage these days - from https://jvns.ca to https://jakelazaroff.com ‘s series on CRDTs. I think there’s a connection between the Recurse and HN communities, and an appreciation of what Recursers tend to gravite towards (personal projects that are meaningful to its creators, and are typically about explaining, exploring or building something new).

Feel free to email me to talk more about it.

As for Trouble, thanks for the suggestion! I’ll be adding it, on top of all of the other places that people have been mentioning.

DHH did not say "something stupid once," but posted an article dripping with white nationalist sentiment a mere month ago: https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

As a somewhat conservative Christian -- not some frothing-at-the-mouth liberal -- reading this left me feeling vaguely nauseous and made me want to ensure that no amount of my money went into this guy's pockets again. This is not some witch hunt over subtle ideological differences. It's literally the kind of thing that David Duke would have been saying a decade ago.

"Whether or not it is, the repetition of that word by you and your friends is a magic spell that brought that administration into reality."

Based on my observations over the last decade, I vehemently disagree on the direction of causality here.

Ah, I'll put it in as a note in the beginning. You can see a more basic introduction in a previous post I wrote:

https://interjectedfuture.com/trade-offs-between-different-crdts/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38916647

Here's some introductory material I found helpful:

- [An interactive intro to CRDTs](https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/)

- [An introduction to state-based CRDTs](https://www.bartoszsypytkowski.com/the-state-of-a-state-based-crdts/)

- [CRDTs for non-academics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBU70EjwGfw)

- [CRDT: The Hard Parts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7drE24geUw)

- [Readings in CRDTs](https://christophermeiklejohn.com/crdt/2014/07/22/readings-in-crdts.html)

- [crdt.tech](https://crdt.tech)