# basecamp (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover basecamp. Page: Feed: --- ## [Basecamp Dispatch: On Boiled Peanuts](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/basecamp-dispatch-on-boiled-peanuts) _2026-08-18 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ My weekly check-in from the woods, the homestead, or somewhere else with spotty cell service ## [The Softest Hands in Edgecombe County](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/how-to-render-bear-fat) _2026-08-15 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ How I render bear fat and what I do with it ## [Basecamp Dispatch: My Quarter-Acre Piece of Dirt](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/basecamp-dispatch-my-quarter-acre) _2026-08-11 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ My weekly check-in from the woods, the homestead, or somewhere else with spotty cell service ## [Endless execution](https://world.hey.com/dhh/endless-execution-4157e065) _2026-08-09 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ The age of agents has brought us endless execution. Every idea, every hunch, every experiment is now within immediate reach. For people with endless ideas, this is nirvana. It's also the most fucking sci-fi thing I've ever been privy to. The internet was a revelation, but it all felt understandable. The science, the standards, the methods. But working with agents truly is magic. In the best… ## [I've Given Scoreboards to the Things I Love](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/ive-given-scoreboards-to-the-things) _2026-08-08 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ On ambition, productivity, and why four hours watching a soybean field sounds like heaven ## [Basecamp Dispatch: On What Counts](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/basecamp-dispatch-on-what-counts) _2026-08-04 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ My weekly check-in from the woods, the homestead, or somewhere else with spotty cell service ## [What's Good for You](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/whats-good-for-you) _2026-08-01 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ A chapter from my book-in-progress ## [Basecamp Dispatch: Singing in the Rain](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/basecamp-dispatch-singing-in-the) _2026-07-28 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ My weekly check-in from the woods, the homestead, or somewhere else with spotty cell service ## [I'm sorry, Dave](https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-m-sorry-dave-380ec27d) _2026-07-27 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has always been an incredible movie, but its value as a cautionary tale has increased exponentially since AI took off. The iconic scene with HAL 9000 refusing to open the pod-bay doors captures the whole alignment question in pulsing-red cinematic poetry. As a great fan of that movie, I was a little disappointed yesterday when I didn't get any of Kubrick's… ## [Sitting down with Senra](https://world.hey.com/dhh/sitting-down-with-senra-69f5e368) _2026-07-26 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ Jason and I have been making the same argument for over a quarter of a century now: Small teams can do incredible things when they embrace their constraints . And when they work in software or media or other intellectual realms, they don't need loads of capital to get going, so they can skip the investor rat race, focus on their edge, and find customers to fund the journey. With the rise of AI,… ## [PixelRift — Platforming with Level Editor (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OOTdIuUNcyCg) _2026-07-26 · **Sponsored**_ Includes a built-in level editor, campaign with elemental heroes, and boss encounters. ## [Standing Up Straight](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/standing-up-straight) _2026-07-25 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ One year after losing my "dream job" ## [Wolves, sheep, and gypsies](https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a) _2026-07-21 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ In 2012, the first Danish wolf in nearly two hundred years was discovered in the northwestern part of the country. Their numbers increased slowly in the years that followed, and by 2020, fewer than ten wolves were still being tracked. But then the population began to rise sharply : around 14 in 2021, 30 in 2022, as many as 80 by the end of 2024, and probably close to a hundred today. At first… ## [Basecamp Dispatch: Tell Me Something Normal](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/basecamp-dispatch-tell-me-something) _2026-07-21 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ My weekly check-in from the woods, the homestead, or somewhere else with spotty cell service ## [I Miss Deer](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/i-miss-deer) _2026-07-18 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ A July confession from someone who keeps binoculars in the truck ## [Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live](https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so-europe-can-live-1afb203d) _2026-07-16 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ The decline of Europe is not inevitable, despite how much Americans love to joke/proclaim that the continent is doomed to become an open-air museum. Sure, it's possible that things have to get worse before they get better, but believing that "it's over" is just loser talk. It's never over, but the old world also won't recover by itself. So here's my pithy prescription for how Europe can find its… ## [Dell is on a roll with the XPS](https://world.hey.com/dhh/dell-is-on-a-roll-with-the-xps-5a09a84e) _2026-07-14 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ We've been buying servers from Dell since the 2000s at 37signals , but I was never too impressed with their personal computers. They either felt cheap or enterprisey to me. Like they were made exclusively for people who are handed standard-issue laptops by corporate, and not something discerning techies would buy with their own money. But the new XPS line has completely changed my perception. I've… ## [Basecamp Dispatch: Birds, Books, and Blue Crabs](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/basecamp-dispatch-birds-books-and) _2026-07-14 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ My weekly check-in from the woods, the homestead, or somewhere else with spotty cell service ## [The will to power will return](https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-will-to-power-will-return-58ffb9dc) _2026-07-12 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ In the 1980s, France started 43 nuclear reactors across 14 sites . On average, each reactor took just seven years to build. Forty years later, all but one of these reactors are still running, and they continue to produce nearly half of France's electricity . Can you imagine France doing something like this today? Or any other country in the West for that matter? The past is a foreign country. But… ## [But Y](https://world.hey.com/dhh/but-y-2c04e16a) _2026-07-11 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ It's no mystery to me why the Tesla Model Y is the world's best-selling car. As a total package, I could make a fair argument that it's simply because it is the world's best car. I'm no stranger to Teslas at this point. We've owned a Model S Plaid, the Model X we traded in on the Y, and we still have the Cyberbeast too. But as impressive as all those cars are, the Y towers above them in several… ## [We Were Never Meant to Be Spectators](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/we-were-never-meant-to-be-spectators) _2026-07-11 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ What a jar of pickles and a package of burger taught me about living a life ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/SGTSAe2KyzFw) _2026-07-11 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [Basecamp Dispatch: Heat Dome and Fairy Wings](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/basecamp-dispatch-heat-dome-and-fairy) _2026-07-07 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ My weekly check-in from the woods, the homestead, or somewhere else with spotty cell service ## [Basecamp Dispatch: Summer in the South](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/basecamp-dispatch-summer-in-the-south) _2026-06-30 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ My weekly check-in from the woods, the homestead, or somewhere else with spotty cell service ## [You Can’t Brand a Real Life](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/you-cant-brand-a-real-life) _2026-06-27 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ We've replaced reputation with branding ## [Basecamp Dispatch: The Confidence of a Three-Inch Bass](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/basecamp-dispatch-the-confidence) _2026-06-23 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ My weekly check-in from the woods, the homestead, or somewhere else with spotty cell service ## [Bedtime Stories](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/bedtime-stories) _2026-06-20 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ Reading Daddy's hunting magazines ## [European Delusions & Danish Drones](https://world.hey.com/dhh/european-delusions-danish-drones-a3da0d27) _2026-06-19 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ Europe is finally waking up from many decades of naive pacifism. While the continent is loath to give America credit, this is largely where it's due, as Trump has pulled back on blanket security guarantees. Well, that and a major war on its doorstep going on four years now. That's the thing about delusions. Their upkeep seems free until reality intrudes. And that reality has finally gate-crashed… ## [The Rape of Britain](https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-rape-of-britain-610412f8) _2026-06-17 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ Rupert Lowe , member of the British Parliament and leader of the Restore Britain party, released The Rape Gang Inquiry yesterday. It details the industrial-scale sexual atrocities committed by predominantly Pakistani Muslims against mostly White British girls in the United Kingdom over decades. It's the stuff of nightmares. In fact, it's so grim, so vile, and so dark that I can't in good… ## [Basecamp Dispatch: Home Again](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/basecamp-dispatch-home-again) _2026-06-16 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ My weekly check-in from the woods, the homestead, or somewhere else with spotty cell service ## [Surprised by Lions](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/surprised-by-lions) _2026-06-13 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ What a toddler and a morning trail taught me about wonder ## [Basecamp Dispatch: Looking for Lions](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/basecamp-dispatch-looking-for-lions) _2026-06-10 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ My weekly check-in from the woods, the homestead, or somewhere else with spotty cell service ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/phNPoOA9mO90) _2026-06-10 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [Jesus Was Poor](https://alicejoneswebb.substack.com/p/jesus-was-poor) _2026-06-06 · Alice Jones Webb · Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb_ A childhood memory of my father running down a school bus bully with his truck ## [A pond of interesting problems](https://world.hey.com/dhh/a-pond-of-interesting-problems-5f697567) _2026-06-03 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ The great joy of having built a successful business that employs a broad team of talented people is that I get to fish for exactly the kind of problems that most interest me, most of the time. Usually, this coincides well with the needs of the business. When we moved out of the cloud, I spent months getting Kamal off the ground, so we didn't have to get mired in the complexity of Kubernetes. Fun… ## [Let the agents democratize open source](https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-the-agents-democratize-open-source-9fd630a9) _2026-06-01 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ The open source movement spent decades fighting for everyone's right to change software, through free access to code and permissive licenses to release improvements. But at the dawn of the AI revolution, as this mission is finally being broadly fulfilled, it's clear that "everyone" never actually meant everyone to some. See, all programmers are equal, but some programmers are more equal than… ## [Basecamp Five](https://world.hey.com/dhh/basecamp-five-8fcfd2ef) _2026-05-26 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ I've been working on Basecamp for half my life, and nearly my entire professional career in software. The first code was written in the summer of 2003 when I was just 23. Now I'm 46, and we've just released the fifth major version. It's an incredible update to a service that continues to help about a million users a day avoid dropping the ball when working with others. It's AI accessible, but not… ## [Celebrating computers at Omacon](https://world.hey.com/dhh/celebrating-computers-at-omacon-163eb568) _2026-04-21 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ Do you see the same truth? That's how C.S. Lewis defined the essence of friendship. And that's what we gathered 130 people in New York to honor for Omacon two weeks ago. Seeing the same truth: A love of computers. Bespoke computers. Malleable computers. Our computers. It's the kind of magic you can only really summon in person. We do our best online, but you instantly realize what an impoverished… ## [The malleable computer](https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-malleable-computer-7c187a9b) _2026-04-15 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ Open source promised that users would be free to change whatever code they were running. The reality, however, is that hardly any of them ever did — it was simply too hard. Now, with AI, it suddenly isn't. This is very exciting. Being able to add features to any local open-source application and then use that bespoke fork for your own benefit is an incredible step toward the original open source… ## [Panther Lake is the real deal](https://world.hey.com/dhh/panther-lake-is-the-real-deal-4bd731f1) _2026-04-06 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ Intel really delivered with Panther Lake. A 2026 Dell XPS 14 using this chipset with an IPS screen can hit just 1.4 watts of idle power draw on Omarchy . That's good enough for over 47 hours!! And in real-world mixed use on another 74-Wh machine, I've seen around 16 hours of battery life. That's a huge jump over the ~6 hours I was getting over the past two years from AMD-powered Framework laptops.… ## [Basecamp becomes agent accessible](https://world.hey.com/dhh/basecamp-becomes-agent-accessible-3ae6b949) _2026-03-25 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ In the past 18 months, we've experimented with a ton of AI-infused features at 37signals. Fizzy had all sorts of attempts. As did Basecamp. But as Microsoft and many others have realized, it's not that easy to make something that's actually good and would welcomed by users. So we didn't ship. In the meantime, agents have emerged has the killer app for AI. Not only are LLMs much smarter when they… ## [Denmark desperately needs more inequality](https://world.hey.com/dhh/denmark-desperately-needs-more-inequality-8e84a8d0) _2026-03-23 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ The Danish election is tomorrow. One of the central themes in the incumbent campaign has been a proposed wealth tax. The fig leaf for this proposal was "smaller classrooms in the early grades", but that quickly fell off, and the debate centered on "inequality". And it's true that inequality is a problem in Denmark: There's not nearly enough! I know that sounds sacrilegious. Even most of the… ## [ONCE (Again)](https://world.hey.com/dhh/once-again-3e99f755) _2026-03-16 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ The original concept for ONCE sought to sell self-hostable web apps for a one-time fee . That didn't work. Sure, we recouped the investment on Campfire, our chat app, but that was it. You gotta listen when the market tells you what it wants! And it didn't seem to want to pay for self-hosted web apps in a one-off way. So we set Campfire , Writebook , and now Fizzy free by releasing them all as open… ## [Omacon comes to New York](https://world.hey.com/dhh/omacon-comes-to-new-york-e6ee93cb) _2026-02-18 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ The vibes around Linux are changing fast. Companies of all shapes and sizes are paying fresh attention. The hardware game on x86 is rapidly improving . And thanks to OpenCode and Claude Code, terminal user interfaces (TUIs) are suddenly everywhere. It's all this and Omarchy that we'll be celebrating in New York City on April 10 at the Shopify SoHo Space for the first OMACON ! We've got an… ## [Clankers with claws](https://world.hey.com/dhh/clankers-with-claws-9f86fa71) _2026-02-05 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ With OpenClaw you're giving AI its own machine, long-term memory, reminders, and persistent execution. The model is no longer confined to a prompt-response cycle, but able to check its own email, Basecamp notifications, and whatever else you give it access to on a running basis. It's a sneak peek at a future where everyone has a personal agent assistant, and it's fascinating. I set up mine on a… ## [Cloud gaming is kinda amazing](https://world.hey.com/dhh/cloud-gaming-is-kinda-amazing-b8a19c57) _2026-02-03 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ I fully understand the nostalgia for real ownership of physical-media games. I grew up on cassette tapes (C64 + Amstrad 464!), floppy disks (C64 5-1/4" then Amiga 3-1/2"), cartridges, and CDs. I occasionally envy the retro gamers on YouTube with an entire wall full of such physical media. But do you know what I like more than collecting? Playing! Anywhere. Anything. Anytime. We went through the… ## [Promoting AI agents](https://world.hey.com/dhh/promoting-ai-agents-3ee04945) _2026-01-07 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ At the end of last year, AI agents really came alive for me. Partly because the models got better, but more so because we gave them the tools to take their capacity beyond pure reasoning. Now coding agents are controlling the terminal, running tests to validate their work, searching the web for documentation, and using web services with skills we taught them in plain English. Reality is fast… ## [The O'Saasy License](https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-o-saasy-license-336c5c8f) _2025-12-16 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ One of my favorite parts of the early web was how easy it was to see how the front-end was built. Before View Source was ruined by minification, transpiling, and bundling, you really could just right-click on any web page and learn how it was all done. It was glorious. But even back then, this only ever applied to the front-end. At least with commercial applications, the back-end was always kept… ## [Europe is weak and delusional (but not doomed)](https://world.hey.com/dhh/europe-is-weak-and-delusional-but-not-doomed-8b10e7cb) _2025-12-09 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ The gap between Europe's self-image and reality has grown into a chasm of delulu. One that's threatening to swallow the continent's future whole, as dangerous dependencies on others for energy, security, software, and manufacturing stack up to strangle Europe's sovereignty. But its current political class continues to double down on everything that hasn't worked for the past forty years. Let's… ## [Fizzy is our fun, modern take on Kanban (and we made it open source!)](https://world.hey.com/dhh/fizzy-is-our-fun-modern-take-on-kanban-and-we-made-it-open-source-54ac41b6) _2025-12-03 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ Kanban is a simple, practical approach to visually managing processes and backlogs by moving work cards from one progress column to another. Toyota came up with it to track their production lines back in the middle of the 20th century, but it's since been applied to all sorts of industries with great effect. And Fizzy is our new fun, modern take on it in digital form. We're certainly not the first… ## [Six billion reasons to cheer for Shopify](https://world.hey.com/dhh/six-billion-reasons-to-cheer-for-shopify-55720846) _2025-12-01 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ Black Friday is usually when ecommerce sets new records. This has certainly been true for Shopify through most of its existence. So much so that the company spends months in advance preparing for The Big Day(s). You'd think after more than twenty years, though, that things would have leveled out. But you'd be wrong. This year, merchants sold an astounding $6.2 billion worth of wares through… ## [Local LLMs are how nerds now justify a big computer they don't need](https://world.hey.com/dhh/local-llms-are-how-nerds-now-justify-a-big-computer-they-don-t-need-af2fcb7b) _2025-11-25 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ It's pretty incredible that we're able to run all these awesome AI models on our own hardware now. From downscaled versions of DeepSeek to gpt-oss-20b, there are many options for many types of computers. But let's get real here: they're all vastly behind the frontier models available for rent, and thus for most developers a curiosity at best. This doesn't take anything away from the technical… ## [No backup, no cry](https://world.hey.com/dhh/no-backup-no-cry-274e0c31) _2025-11-24 · David Heinemeier Hansson · David Heinemeier Hansson_ I haven't done a full-system backup since back in the olden days before Dropbox and Git. Every machine I now own is treated as a stateless, disposable unit that can be stolen, lost, or corrupted without consequences. The combination of full-disk encryption and distributed copies of all important data means there's just no stress if anything bad happens to the computer. But don't mistake this for…