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Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

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melodyogonna · 1790290959 · focus · HN ↗
Comes to Rails conference. Gives a keynote with nothing about Rails. Leaves.
1. mitxela · 1790303337 · focus · HN ↗
  It's his conference he made because he was banned from the big one, for good reasons.
  1. tim333 · 1790426330 · focus · HN ↗
    Apparently not exactly banned. Seems they asked someone else to do the keynote and he said he'd go do his own thing <a href="https://world.hey.com/dhh/no-railsconf-faa7935e" rel="nofollow">https://world.hey.com/dhh/no-railsconf-faa7935e
    (I don't know much - I was just googling what he was banned for)
2. culi · 1790307531 · focus · HN ↗
  It's not RailsConf. He's banned from that. It's his own Rails World he owns
  1. segfaltnh · 1790334574 · focus · HN ↗
    Oh wow, I forgot about this. That context is important. He's talking to an audience of adherents. There's something mildly fascist about that.
    HatchedLake721 · 1790363458 · focus · HN ↗
    Can we please not trivialise the meaning of fascist?
    airhangerf15 · 1790971106 · focus · HN ↗
    > fascist
    This word literally has no meaning anymore other than: "person who's opinions I disagree with for religious reasons I don't understand"
    It's a one-word thought terminating cliche and shows one's lack of ability to think objectively or approach an argument rather than ad hominem attack the person.
  2. xiphias2 · 1790346949 · focus · HN ↗
    Actually it also is a good enough reason from him to move away from both working on Ruby on Rails and using it.
  3. thrownaway561 · 1790354826 · focus · HN ↗
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