Sebastian Schmid

I love to think and to build things.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my 6 hour conversation with @dhh, a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, author, and race car driver. This was a fun and inspiring conversation on everything from the future of programming & AI to the nature of happiness & productivity to the value of family, getting married and having kids.

X limits video length to 6 hours. So this full convo doesn't fit (by a few minutes). So, the first 6 hours are here on X. The full version is up everywhere else (see comment).

Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode highlight
1:21 - Introduction
2:32 - Programming - early days
19:57 - JavaScript
30:16 - Google Chrome and DOJ
38:03 - Ruby programming language
45:14 - Beautiful code
1:03:15 - Metaprogramming
1:06:36 - Dynamic typing
1:13:55 - Scaling
1:26:47 - Future of programming
1:44:18 - Future of AI
1:50:13 - Vibe coding
1:58:45 - Rails manifesto: Principles of a great programming language
2:23:11 - Why managers are useless
2:32:32 - Small teams
2:38:39 - Jeff Bezos
2:53:57 - Why meetings are toxic
3:01:43 - Case against retirement
3:09:00 - Hard work
3:14:38 - Why we left the cloud
3:17:48 - AWS
3:27:07 - Owning your own servers
3:33:19 - Elon Musk
3:43:01 - Apple
3:54:48 - Tim Sweeney
4:06:22 - Fatherhood
4:32:04 - Racing
4:59:08 - Cars
5:04:26 - Programming setup
5:19:35 - Programming language for beginners
5:32:53 - Open source
5:41:46 - WordPress drama
5:53:03 - Money and happiness
6:01:56 - Hope

[kepano @kepano]

Microsoft just released a tool that lets you convert Office files to Markdown. Never thought I'd see the day.

Google also added Markdown export to Google Docs a few months ago.

[mrdoob @mrdoob]

Money was never the goal.

I hated relying on Adobe (Flash) so much that I felt I had to create a free option for the HTML5/WebGL world.

It has not been easy and I've had to sacrifice a few things in my personal life but I think it has been worth it.

[Kenneth Reitz @kennethreitz42]

Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source https://t.co/SlKjzwHxDA

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

Signal strongly opposes this proposal.

Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.

This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.

It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.

[Sebastian Schmid @SchmidSebastian]

🤯

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

It’s so over.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

It’s so over.

[Shawn Dedalus .·. 🇺🇲 ⚓ @ShawnDevDedalus]

The best encoder and decoder ever. The founder refused 55 million dollars for it to keep it free...

Crazy, right?

True opensource mentality.-

VLC has the simplicity of a screwdriver from the user's end but it is a beast under the hood.

[Sebastian Schmid @SchmidSebastian]

Life Hack 🤓

[Lauren McKenzie @TheMcKenziest]

no fucking way lmao

[Jeff Barr ☁️ @jeffbarr]

Thank you to everyone who brought this article to our attention. We agree that customers should not have to pay for unauthorized requests that they did not initiate. We’ll have more to share on exactly how we’ll help prevent these charges shortly.

#AWS #S3

How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode - https://t.co/KRgL9C1u9p

[Sebastian Schmid @SchmidSebastian]

🧐😒

[Iceman @herrmann1001]

#xzutils What an legendary change.

"suddenly disappeared"

[Sebastian Schmid @SchmidSebastian]

No excuses anymore 😎

[𝚓𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚢 @202accepted]

avg SF techie: “i use mac cause it’s easier, linux is scary”

grandma: “so i’m using the debian 12 version of linux and this is how you use FFMPEG”

[Jack Ellis @JackEllis]

TIL: Stripe deploys changes to it's core API services 400 times per day 🤯

[Sebastian Schmid @SchmidSebastian]

🎯

[Jake Williams @MalwareJake]

I've said it before and I stand by it: if you're a VMware customer and not making active migration plans, you're missing the mark.

[Sebastian Schmid @SchmidSebastian]

🤯🤑

[Adam Singer @AdamSinger]

Your crappy employer: "we need you back in the office and torching 2 hours a day because we're bagholding CRE, our execs can't figure out how to use PM software and we just broadly hate you/want arbitrary control over your movements"

NVIDIA, with a remote team:

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Shopify‘s in-office keyboards are 👌

All details matter.

[Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis]

Dang this is a clever solution to privacy while screensharing 🥵 Nice work @tuple!

https://t.co/QtR4I29WeZ

[Bruno @use_bruno]

Bruno v1.2.0 is here 🎉🎉

🍪 Cookie support
📁 PDF Viewer
👩‍💻 Autocomplete + JSON/JS Linting
💅 Bug fixes and polishing.

Thank's to everyone who participated in the release.
Release Notes: https://t.co/4kHfPufK8v