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Wait, I had no idea dhh was on the outs now. This is the first I've heard of this. I have to go look for more information about this. What did he do?

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Not sure he's "on the outs", he on Shopify's board.

Sidekiq's solo dev (Mike Perham) has for many years made a generous donation to Ruby Central. He informed them that he didn't want his money to be spent platforming dhh at their conference, they ignored his request, he stopped his annual donations.

If you want to read about dhh's colorful blog posts and tweets: https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug...

Colorful is an odd way to spell "vocally bigoted".

I get downvoted here when I call him a racist.

Me too, and because of that I feel it's even more important to use language like racist, white nationalist, and fascist when describing him and his ilk, because that's what they are. Softening the language only leads to those beliefs becoming more normalized than they already are.

He came out as a white nationalist [1]. And he's always been contentious.

[1] https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug...

MINASWAN...

WTFIDHHSAFA???

I would recommend as a starting point this beautiful piece from November: https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

If you’d like to read, in his own words, his “coming out” as an ultra right wing racist piece of shit, feel free to look on his blog for the post titled “As I Remember London.”

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