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Tekin Süleyman
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Tekin Süleyman's personal blog at tekin.co.uk covers programming and web. Since 2020, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “The Ruby community has a DHH problem”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (23) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tekin Süleyman mainly for his post "The Ruby community has a DHH problem", and for older posts on git diffs, commit messages and searching revisions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 23 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is the personal blog of Tekin Süleyman, senior Ruby on Rails consultant for hire.
Most-linked posts?
- The Ruby community has a DHH problem18 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2025-09-22
- Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-19
- Git tip: committing with verbose mode2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-09
- Why Git blame sucks for understanding WTF code (and what to use instead)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-15
What Hacker News says?
> This takes as axiomatic that people with incompatible beliefs in one area cannot work together in a different area. "Beliefs" are when you think The Strokes are superior to The White Stripes, or that Giordano's deep dish pizza is superior to Lou Malnati's, or that IPAs are better than lagers. I'll happily work with people who espouse those beliefs, despite my beliefs to the contrary. I won't work with people who d…
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on “Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover”Submitted Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go as a story · 302 points
HN discussionSomeone linked an article above that is worth a read - He's said some pretty horrific stuff about minority groups & is echoing discredited sentiment on immigrants and other minorities. It's worth a read. https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...
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on “Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover”Submitted The Ruby community has a DHH problem as a story · 100 points
HN discussion"The Ruby community has a DHH problem": https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...
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on “Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover”Submitted Why Git blame sucks for understanding WTF code (and what to use instead) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHe’s been posting increasingly inflammatory articles, for the most recent round refer to https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...
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on “Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover”Submitted Git tip: committing with verbose mode as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, he’s a lost cause: https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...
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on “Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root”You're skipping his recent blog posts; I think that's where the bulk of people's complaints come from. See for example https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...
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on “Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues”A good time to also point out https://tekin.co.uk/2020/10/better-git-diff-output-for-ruby-...
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on “Difftastic: Syntax-aware structured diff tool”See https://tekin.co.uk/2020/10/better-git-diff-output-for-ruby-...
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on “What comes after Git”Several recent attempts at hard forking rails, https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... Due to just the most recent DHH tirade, but a similarly long trend as with Guillermo: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64
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on “Vercel CEO meets with Netanyahu to discuss AI education”A useful, related trick. Enable commit.verbose to have Git append a diff to the commit message template, which you can quickly consult when writing a commit message. git config --global commit.verbose true https://tekin.co.uk/2020/03/git-commit-verbose-mode
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on “Using Git commit message templates to write better commit messages”Here's a good summary of some recent stuff: https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...
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on “Framework Sponsors CachyOS”> Because we all have to get along regardless of what you believe False. Freedom of association is a human right. And nobody is obligated to donate their money to a cause or organization they do not support. Refusing to associate with someone who would like to "Make Britain White Again" (among many other things) is a completely reasonable stance. https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... https:…
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on “Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiasco”https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...
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on “Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiasco”It sucks that DHH is getting so much attention on what is basically his personal rice in Omarchy, to the point that he's becoming a sort of face for "Linux with nicish defaults". He is a bigot who regularly engages in reactionary politics on his personal blog ( https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... ). I don't want this man representing the Linux community writ large.
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on “Windows 10 Deadline Boosts Mac Sales”Thanks - that was helpful indeed. From there, I also found the linked post by Tekin Süleyman ( https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... ) to be informative.
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on “A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy”White nationalism: I highly recommend reading these posts by people in the Rails community: https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... These are some examples from the source: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a
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on “Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons”But this isn't happening. To cite someone with closer experience (who also does admit that the "migration issue in Britain is complicated and multi-layered") [0]: > To all of that he adds a dash of Islamophobia, citing “Pakistani rape gangs” as one of the reasons for the unrest, repeating a weaponised trope borne from a long since discredited report from the Quilliam Foundation, an organisation with ties to both the…
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on “Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons”For a little more background, this article explains how to keep a record of which revisions shouldn't show up: https://tekin.co.uk/2020/09/ignore-linting-and-formatting-co... Used well, I think it should help with this problem.
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on “Book Review: "Tidy First?" By Kent Beck”That's just the latest. David Hamburger Helper is a lot more than just that, and he's been at this for years. https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug... https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... Jake's blog post points out how David Hamburger Helper is quite skilled at running right up to the line but not crossing it explicitly . His type is great at using weasel words and…
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on “1Password Replied to My Disappointment”https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... here's a quick primer, if you're asking in good faith.
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on “Omakase Computing”Yeah, you're right. I did a little investigation before posting that and it seemed to handle some movement within the file but after looking at it more closely I see it is not fully robust (even within the same file it misses some earlier changes). This page provides some other techniques: https://tekin.co.uk/2020/11/patterns-for-searching-git-revis... but I think they have their own limitations.
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on “Ask HN: What's the one feature you'd want in a GitHub productivity tool?”Shouldn’t that be enough? Lots of people worked together to build Rails before DHH revealed his extreme political views. It’s only natural that many of them want to go back to the way things were when they could just focus on Rails and not have to think about their contributions supporting someone hateful. If you haven’t, read this post by someone who has been in the community for a while and targeted by DHH’s rheto…
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on “Rails Is Done”https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-righ...
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on “John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard”> It's interesting what political issues people make paramount. The related political issue here is people's right to exist. - See: https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... - See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human... ------------------------------------ Are you suggesting this issue should not be the most important issue? If this is the most important issue: what's t…
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on “Framework Laptop 13 Pro”
