David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
Activities
Creator of Ruby on Rails and co-founder/CTO of Basecamp (and its email product, Hey). In 2025 he
moved his daily-driver desktop from macOS to Linux — citing frustration with Apple’s App Store policies
and PWA treatment — settling on Arch Linux + Hyprland, which he packaged into the opinionated distro
Omarchy.
Connections to other people and companies
- Omarchy — creator; announced the “Quattro” rewrite and an $8M-funded Omarchy Foundation in
August 2026 - Basecamp / Hey — co-founder, CTO
Sources
yt-base video summaries covering Omarchy launches, the Quattro announcement, and standup/interview
appearances discussing the Mac-to-Linux switch (2025-07 through 2026-08).