David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) shares the origins of Ruby on Rails, its surprising mainstream adoption failures, and why the EU's tech regulations often backfire. Learn the story behind Basecamp's 20-year support commitment and Hey's ambitious email service.`
00:00 Welcome Tom and David
00:11 Early programming experience
00:41 Falling in love with Ruby
03:33 Building Basecamp
06:58 The rise of Ruby on Rails
14:14 The future of Ruby on Rails
20:20 Rails 7.1 and Hotwire
26:11 Browser improvements enabling no-build JavaScript
31:40 Dropping TypeScript support
37:04 Large projects without TypeScript
41:23 iOS walled garden limitations
45:47 Apple's influence in Europe
53:36 37signals commitment to legacy apps
58:21 Killing popular services
01:00:20 Maintaining legacy Basecamp versions
01:04:26 Concepting Hey email service