David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's not competition.
That's not what happened on Android.
Again, I think there are some nuances to it, but if you zoom out and you look at all the problems we have with big tech, Chrome is not it.
Chrome won on merits.
I begrudgingly have switched to Chrome on that realization alone.
As a web developer, I just prefer it.
I like Firefox in many ways.
I like the ethos of it.
But Chrome is a better browser than Firefox, full stop.
Because it's also Chrome in address.
Maybe you have, because you know what is Bing in address?
What?
DuckDuckGo.
which is actually the search engine that I use.
DuckDuckGo gets its search results from Bing, or at least it used to.
If they changed that, that would be news to me.
PHP was what converted me from just being able to fondle HTML and turn out some web pages to actually being able to produce web applications myself.
So I owe a tremendous gratitude to PHP in that regard.
But I never thought of PHP as a calling.
I never thought, I'm a professional programmer who writes PHP.