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Re:Ruby for Good on Sunday May 24, 2026 @02:35PM (#48259832)
I’m glad to see conferences like this exist. It creates dedicated space for these focuses and the people who care passionately about them.
Re:MIT Living Wage Calculator on Monday February 09, 2026 @09:59PM (#46954803)
That’s 2080 paid hours per year. Inclusive of paid time off, holidays, etc.
Interesting “built with these tools” to “useful in this way” ratio
Congratulations on shipping this, I’m sure folks will find it useful!

The rails native way to do this is to track state in a db row and queuing “next step” jobs as the data changes. This can get verbose especially for smaller pass/fail workflows. However, I find this works better (not worse imo) in more complex workflows as the state is tracked, queryable, can be surfaced in UIs, and resumed “manually” in the event of an outage.

Re:The Rubygems.org takeover on Monday October 20, 2025 @10:09PM (#45651690)
All of this sucks, and it’s time for the community to move on.

It’s a bad look for the ruby ecosystem. Continuing to rehash, throw mud, and speculate at this point likely harms the greater community more than any “side” would “win”.

Where can I find that Potential Malware Inside™ sticker that warns everyone else who is familiar with the consequences? Asking for a friend!
It pains me how this comment illustrates how ignorant most folks are of the consequences of installing software off the internet is (even technically inclined folks that hang out on HN). How many of us have non-security software installed on our computers today that do exactly these things... but sell the information? Definitely a non-zero number!

If folks understood this better, there would be less reason for software like Huntress' EDR to exist.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Sunday June 29, 2025 @08:54PM (#44418078)
A multi-node, multi-processes, queue based rspec test runner with a dx that doesn’t suck. Open source.
Re:Ruby on Rails Audit Complete on Sunday June 15, 2025 @09:45AM (#44282261)
As with all security audits, most findings are a balance between risk and usability.
He literally mentioned backups and not everyone needs HA?
Re:When Flat Rate Movers Won't Answer Your Calls on Sunday May 04, 2025 @11:14AM (#43887184)
I paid almost as much for an in-state, 240 mile, move without packing/unpacking.

Get what ya pay for? If felt extremely expensive at the time but after hearing a few horror stories…

Why are these going up on ULA rockets and not Blue Origin?
See https://github.com/huntresslabs/ttl_memoizeable for an alternative implementation.

For those who don’t understand why you might want something like this: if you’re doing high enough throughput where eventual consistency is effectively the same as atomic consistency and IO hurts (i.e. redis calls) you may want to cache in memory with something like this.

My implementation above was born out of the need to adjust global state on-the-fly in a system processing hundreds of thousands of requests per second.

Re:Ask HN: Should I leave the company I co-founded? on Monday March 24, 2025 @11:05PM (#43467755)
I’ve seen cofounder departures go down a few times second hand/tangentially.

Not a single company survived afterwards.

Are you the CEO? If so, gain the buy-in from your cofounder to follow your direction. If not, find a way to get onboard… or probably damage the company with a departure.

Re:The Burnout Machine on Thursday March 20, 2025 @05:32PM (#43429235)
I might agree from the tech worker’s perspective, except to someone working in fast food flipping burgers, a tech worker making $200k/$400k/$1M+ might as well be in the 1%.
Re:The Burnout Machine on Thursday March 20, 2025 @05:25PM (#43429157)
Thanks for the spell check!
Re:The Burnout Machine on Thursday March 20, 2025 @04:24PM (#43428463)
Burnout? Yes. Overwork? Maybe. Unionize? Eh…

The post reeks of privilege.

Go work a manual labor job outside in the sun for a few weeks and tell me how bad tech employees have it. Most of non-tech America is not empathetic to our plights. They’ll probably cheer on the offshoring of our jobs.

Where can I buy the alternative lidar based car?
Re:RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI on Saturday March 15, 2025 @09:22AM (#43372373)
Yes, that’s exactly what I was referring to. Folks (or llms!) never copy/paste doc examples, right?
Re:RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI on Saturday March 15, 2025 @08:08AM (#43372005)
Looks useful.

Allowing ai to eval() code or execute any sql statement would scare the crap outta me personally.

Re:"Normal" engineers are the key to great teams on Thursday March 13, 2025 @10:37PM (#43359110)
This is my favorite take on 10x engineers https://testdouble.com/insights/the-looming-demise-of-the-10...
Re:Htmx 2.0.4 Released on Friday December 13, 2024 @11:08PM (#42414605)
As ceo of htmx I’ll field any questions now
Yes, one time extreme exposure. Enough to make him sick for weeks that I never saw before or after.

No doubt continuous exposure didn’t help at all or might have been the real cause… or all of it combined. Or none of it.

My father (farmer) has been diagnosed with AD. In the 90’s he had direct accidental exposure to herbicide drift from a crop duster in a windy day. He suffered from a short term illness immediately after and peripheral neuropathy since; I wonder if his AD diagnosis can be added to the list?

Also: AD fucking sucks.

As a 100% remote employer this has been a boon for our hiring as it has freed up highly skilled employees that can’t/won’t RTO.
Re:Embed Crystal code directly in Ruby on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @10:11PM (#39997734)
Neat!
Re:Show HN: CodeRev.app – Code Review as Interview on Monday February 19, 2024 @09:04AM (#39429826)
We’ve implemented a single file code reading/refactor step of our interview processes and it has been very effective.

I think you could have great success with this, good luck!

Re:RoR Debugbar on Sunday February 18, 2024 @03:39PM (#39423009)
Cool project, but I hate the use of the RoR acronym
Re:Thermoelectric Heating Comes in from the Cold on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @08:29AM (#38543583)
Central, augmenting existing electric forced air with existing ducts. Similar sized home.

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