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David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

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4269 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

And then I use this low-profile mechanical keyboard called the Low Free Flow 84, which is just the most glorious-sounding keyboard I've ever heard.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

I know there are a lot of connoisseurs of mechanical keyboards that will probably contest me on this.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

This is too talky or too clicky or too clacky or whatever.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

But for me, the Low Free Flow 84 is just...

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

at the light that I did not even know existed, which is so funny because, I mean, I've been programming for a long time.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

Mechanical keyboards have been a thing for a long time.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

And the keyboard, when you look at it like this, it just kind of, it looks plain.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

It doesn't look extravagant, but the tactile sensation you get out of pushing those keys, the talky sound that you hear when the keys hit the board, it's just sublime.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

And I'm kicking myself that I was in this Mac keyboard

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

bubble for so long that I wasn't even in the market to find this.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

I knew mechanical keyboards existed, but to be blunt, I thought it was a bit of a nerd thing that only real nerds that were much more nerdy than me would ever care about.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

And then I got out of the Apple bubble and suddenly I had to find everything again.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

I had to find a new mouse.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

I had to find a new keyboard.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

I had to find everything.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

And I thought like, all right, let me give mechanical keyboards a try.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

And I gave quite a few of them a try.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

The Keychron is one of the big brands in that.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

I didn't like that at all.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

I tried a bunch of other keyboards.

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