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pmdr 4 days ago

> Not someone you publicly associate your organisation with him unless you want to send a certain message.

... that you like Linux, Rails and despise Apple?

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jwhiles 4 days ago | parent [-]

Your interpretation of my comment, though I guess intended as a joke, can only really mean two things:

1. You are unaware of DHH’s more recent favoured topics 2. You don’t think there is a problem with DHH’s opinions

Either is fine, I don’t really care.

The issue for me is that Cloudflare’s PR team obviously are aware what DHH writes about. And they’re sponsoring his project anyway. Cloudflare knows that this is repellant to a lot of people, that some of us will begin removing them from our stacks in response. But they don’t care, because they think it’s more valuable to cosy up to a bunch of mid life crises who’ve spent too much time on twitter.

	▲	pmdr 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I've always met his non-tech posts with an eye-roll after at most skimming through them. > 1. You are unaware of DHH’s more recent favoured topics No, apparently I wasn't fully updated. Looks likes he's turned it up a notch or two. > 2. You don’t think there is a problem with DHH’s opinions Tech-related ones I agree with. Political ones, I mostly don't. Now should he be censored or 'canceled' for his opinions? I don't think so. Criticized? Absolutely. His once wrote on his blog that politics should stay out of tech. I think he's beginning to break away from that, and even though he's not explicitly tying his views to his products as far as I can see, he risks undoing all the good work.