DHH discusses SQLite (and Stoicism)

DHH and Aaron discuss modern SQLite, the one-person framework, conceptual compression, stoicism, and ONCE.com's newest product: Workbook.

[dmccallie]

I love the idea that one person should be able to build, deploy, and support a complete web site.

[DS-owge]

DHH is one of those people who starts with these takes that seem super out there and then society just converges on them over time. I bet he bough nvidia stock a decade ago

[Xe]

Woah, it's shocking how much Twitter can skew reality. People love to hate on DHH there, but I found this entire conversation so damn inspirational! Thank you both for sharing your insights. I'm super grateful and gained a new perspective on what it means to be a developer.

[idearat]

"We cannot give up on the internet being something that individual developers can build for and be competitive on." - DHH

Such a powerful point and one that resonates so much having watched 'www' go from a curiosity on my NeXT box to what we all use today.

[bongabonga]

Joe: "Oh so you run a blog, whats with the 20 guys behind you?"
Bob: "DevOps team"

[davidpaez_co]

DHH is slowly becoming my virtual mentor. That bit about stoicism was great. Amazing interview, thank you Aaron!

[marlonmarcello]

Great interview Aaron, thank you! You are a great communicator, seriously. Interesting questions, you never intererrupt and you are legit interested. Keep up the great work and I am looking forwards to that SQLite course!

[theSlavenIvanov]

Love how exited DHH gets whenever he talks about tech!

[mkwpaul]

Hearing DHH's takes and views on thing is always a delight.

[Leonhart_]

Aaron, you have the perfect attitude towards things to make new people be interested in an older language like PHP, Laravel and all the stuff around that.
Your combination of general lightness and genuine interest in these things works really well. You are probably making a significant difference in changing some of the negative reputation of the language, keep it up!

[theshinyplayer]

Great content Aaron and David, thanks! I really agree with David on complexity. I've been a one man team since my teens, and I've learnt quite a few times that complexity(and dependencies) are both a huge risk. Less complexity and dependencies makes it so much easier to come back to something you wrote 10 years ago that is now in need of a small update.

[johnnyjohnsonxx]

I've been dabbling in various areas of web development since I was 12, and only 4 years ago I discovered Laravel (and through it I re-discovered PHP) and now I'm at a point where DHH described as "one developer shop".

I can build a whole webapp that can compete against conglomerates, all by myself. And Laravel has a huge part in that. Not only because it makes coding easier with its abstractions and helper functions and stuff, because it makes you "capable" almost instantly.

When you see that you can build a note taking app with full CRUD operations and authentication in less than an hour, then the question becomes "Okay, now WHAT do I build?". From "HOW do I build it?".

In my opinion Laravel is the perfect example of a framework. It makes web development (and PHP) so much easier and actually FUN.

[SimoneFolador]

Wonderful interview! I absolutely love how DHH is passionate about stuff, such a unique character. Thanks

[neverything]

What a wonderful interview Aaron! Thanks a lot 🎉

[CreatorX]

Love when a conversation like this gives me dozens of new ideas & things to try out. This interview is such a breath of fresh air when compared to the engagement-oriented needless drama that goes on in Twitter. Thank you both!

[JohanEliasson]

Love this interview and DHH has the exact right mind set. Fighting complexity ❤ Looking forward to the SQLite course!

[impromp]

I've kinda known of DHH since a long time but now for the first time watching him speak. he has a very passionate and charming personality. Aaron is great host ofc.

[nimmneun]

First? 🎉

On a serious note ... markdown for blog/article type projects and sqlite for more complex use-cases where u need relational data ... love the simplicity 😊

[jamieknight]

SQLite is amazing. We use it within our container for holding a couple of large mostly static datasets… when running at full speed it’s handling millions of read and writes per minute.

[mikulcek]

I am a regulare DHH blog reader, seing you two in the same place just made a lot of sense. A lot of practical value here, great talk DHH!