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"This is like getting a private mentorship from one of the most talented developers of our generation". I weep for the world where this is true. DHH found a ni

"This is like getting a private mentorship from one of the most talented developers of our generation". I weep for the world where this is true. DHH found a niche and through copious application of the "worse is better" approach, became famous. That in itself makes him neither interesting nor particularly talented. The real tragedy is hundreds of genius engineers posting eye-opening material in their personal blogs, that I have little time to fully follow much less digest, being invisible to the masses.

nickjj 6y ago
> I weep for the world where this is true It's too late to edit my comment but I should have been more specific and included the word "web" in there instead of having it applied to all developers. I've watched all of DHH's YouTube videos and ignoring his opinionated views on things I think it would be hard to say he's not a good developer. His thought process is very clear and the code he writes (at least in the videos I've seen) seems good, especially since it's in an older code base that's really running in production at scale and not a little toy example to make it look good on video. In my mind, a talented developer is more than someone who can think of and implement great algorithms. It's pulling together many things (coding chops, ability to communicate, API design, thoughtfulness of the code quality, being able to turn the code into something nice for either developers or app features depending on who the audience is, etc.) and IMO DHH hits all of these marks, so it's surprising to me at how little views his videos gets. I wonder if that's why he stopped making them.