Aug 10, 2026 · 20 min · 9 segments
This is about the Ruby developer community, but it's also about so much more than Ruby. It's about all of us, and what we can do to hold fascists and white supremacists to account. (As well as clanker…
Jared WhiteHost
And with all that down, on to today's main topic, which is solving the DHH problem.
And I'm not going to rehash all of the reasons why he is a deeply, deeply problematic character.
But, uh, as I sometimes reluctantly do, I headed over to xCancel and Just saw what he was up to with his posts on X.
And, well, here's a guy who's been revealed not only to be a white supremacist, but also a clanker supremacist.
It's funny how people fret over agents now submitting pull requests to open source projects.
Have you ever had to review code written by random strangers on the internet? Frontier agents produce far less slop.
And then in a reply to someone else on X, he says, I don't think many humans are going to be reading or writing code in five years, so I don't really think it matters.
Um, may I introduce you to handcraftedcode.org, mister? Yes, the last episode of Vibe Coded, I talked about the new project I'd kicked off, a community effort to take a stand for handcrafted code and add our names to a directory to show the world that people are still regularly writing code by hand and pushing to production.
I would like to contrast what the creator of Ruby on Rails is now saying about open source.
Random strangers submitting pull requests, which used to be the definition of having an open source project and being a maintainer.
That's... literally the job description, but apparently he doesn't like that anymore.
Codeburg is a GitHub competitor for people to submit their code and set up repositories and collaborate on open source projects.
I want to highlight a portion of the blog post where they announced that they won't tolerate AI slop code being added to Codeburg.
And with all that down, on to today's main topic, which is solving the DHH problem.
And I'm not going to rehash all of the reasons why he is a deeply, deeply problematic character.
But, uh, as I sometimes reluctantly do, I headed over to xCancel and Just saw what he was up to with his posts on X.
And, well, here's a guy who's been revealed not only to be a white supremacist, but also a clanker supremacist.
It's funny how people fret over agents now submitting pull requests to open source projects.
Have you ever had to review code written by random strangers on the internet? Frontier agents produce far less slop.
And then in a reply to someone else on X, he says, I don't think many humans are going to be reading or writing code in five years, so I don't really think it matters.
Um, may I introduce you to handcraftedcode.org, mister? Yes, the last episode of Vibe Coded, I talked about the new project I'd kicked off, a community effort to take a stand for handcrafted code and add our names to a directory to show the world that people are still regularly writing code by hand and pushing to production.
I would like to contrast what the creator of Ruby on Rails is now saying about open source.
Random strangers submitting pull requests, which used to be the definition of having an open source project and being a maintainer.
That's... literally the job description, but apparently he doesn't like that anymore.
Codeburg is a GitHub competitor for people to submit their code and set up repositories and collaborate on open source projects.
I want to highlight a portion of the blog post where they announced that they won't tolerate AI slop code being added to Codeburg.
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