Every time I hear anything about DHH these days I feel I have to apologise for inviting him to Small Is Beautiful in 2021.

small-tech.org/small-is-beauti…

I’m sorry, I didn’t know he was a dollar-store Elon Musk at the time.

What can I say? He duped me with his “small tech” talk, making me think we were talking about the same thing. Which, clearly, we weren’t, because Small Tech is all about inclusivity and a non-colonial approach to designing and developing human-scale technology:

“Small Tech is political through and through. It stands with both middle fingers raised high against Big Tech and capitalism. It’s proudly progressive. Small Tech is the opposite of Big Tech, not Big Tech Light.”

Learn more about Small Technology here: small-tech.org/about/#small-te…

#SmallTech #BigTech #DHH #apologies #SmallIsBeautiful mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/…

Neil Brown

2025-11-06 12:57:31

# DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis – Rust in Peace

blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/…

DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis

Couple weeks ago Cloudflare announced it would be sponsoring some Open Source projects. Throwing money at pet projects of random techbros would hardly be news, but there was a certain vibe behind...

^{Jordan Petridis (Rust in Peace)}