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By DHH on

The Omarchy Core Team

Omarchy’s explosive growth demands structured teams in response, and we’re going to get started by incorporating The Omarchy Core Team. This group will share the responsibility of driving the direction of our distro, ensuring we continue to push forward, and assisting other contributors.

Allow me to present the inaugural Core Team:

Ryan Hughes has been my wingman on Omarchy since day one. We fought the 3am emergency AUR outages together in the early days, and we conspired to build our own package repository. Ryan’s contributions span every layer of the distro: installation, packaging, hardware support, gaming, theming, CLI tooling, and now Quattro. He helped drive the move to Quickshell, the plugin system, and much of the infrastructure that turned Omarchy from a carefully assembled Linux setup into a proper operating system. When he’s not hacking on Omarchy, Ryan is a partner at Oodle.

Tobi Lütke is the only person who’s made both of my core teams! As a member of the first Rails Core Team started in 2004, he drove not only a serious record of contributions to the framework, but also authored Liquid, Delayed Job, and Active Merchant. That work eventually turned into a little company called Shopify, have you heard of them? Now he’s a prolific contributor to Omarchy with projects like try, Omasnap, Wi-Fi QR codes, and the Quake-style agent console. He also happens to be my co-driver in the #11 Shopify Racing LMP2 car racing in IMSA.

Bjarne Øverli is the CTO of Unite AS and the creator of Aether, the visual theme builder we ship in Omarchy, and cliamp, our TUI-based music player. He’s helped turn our theming system from a collection of configuration files into something far more systematic, with semantic colors and generated themes across Neovim, VS Code, btop, and the rest of the stack. He’s also responsible for themes like Ethereal, Hackerman, and Lupine. Bjarne has that rare combination of programmer rigor and visual taste that fits Omarchy perfectly.

HANCORE is a mechanical engineer who somehow ended up becoming one of the defining aesthetic forces in the Omarchy community. He’s produced an absurd number of themes, including Last Horizon and Solitude, which ships by default in Omarchy. Now he’s helping steward the plugin ecosystem around Quattro. Omarchy has always insisted that a computer should be beautiful as well as useful, and HANCORE has pushed that premise further than almost anyone.

Spencer Bull is a Distinguished Engineer at Dell working on Linux client enablement, AI, and platform software. He’s been our bridge into the messy reality of brand-new hardware, helping Omarchy work properly on Panther Lake and the latest XPS machines before the usual Linux lag could set in. Kernel issues, drivers, displays, Wi-Fi, speakers, power management: Spencer operates in the layer where software meets atoms, and having that expertise inside the Core Team is invaluable.

These five have already been doing the work. This just makes it official. Together with me, it’s a phenomenal inaugural Core Team. But it’s also not going to be the only team. Stay tuned for an announcement on Omarchy Rangers!

Together we’re going to build Omarchy into the premier Linux distribution for people who are excited about the age of agents, the malleable computer, and beautiful, modern, opinionated computing.

To infinity and beyond!

DHH, Ryan Hughes, Tobi Lütke, Bjarne Øverli, HANCORE, and Spencer Bull