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I wonder how Peter's views might have changed in the last three months.

I think that's a misconception.

It's quite possible that the expected value for most companies over, say 10 years, is overall higher. I obviously have no data, call it a hunch

We just don't hear enough about companies growing steadily and profitably over the years, but over report on the unicorns and smash hits.

It's simplistic, but I think there's two ways you can approach building a product company.

Either you focus on creating a great product that customers love. As a consequence, you'll hopefully make some money.

Or you focus on making a truckload of money as quick as possible, and building a product is merely a means to an end.

As OP said, there's far too few companies choosing the first approach, and far too many choosing the second one.

Under the hood, it uses good ol' fork and keeps track of the generated process IDs.

It's surprisingly simple. You can check out the relevant source here: https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/blob/main/lib%2Fsolid_q...

Author here. What a pleasant surprise to see this on HN!

Happy to answer any questions.

I launched something similar a year ago, funnily with an almost identical name.

Different tech stack and slightly different features though. Super cool to see more other tools in the space!

https://datadeaddrop.com/

> It also doesn’t understand how to get packages from a git source.

Not sure what you mean.

https://bundler.io/guides/git.html

Have been using asdf (with Ruby and JS) for years, haven't had a reason to look for something else yet.

See edge guides (https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/7_2_release_notes.html) for some highlights.

I'm looking forward to using some of the developer experience stuff, such as default RuboCop or default GH actions for new apps. Not sure if it's everyone's cup of tea though.

> I didn’t want to deal with databases.

So instead I used a third party authentication service, store some data in JSON files, and also throw up a lamda gateway to store some more data in Google Sheets?

It's not relevant to the big hunt, but I'm genuinely intrigued. Is this approach considered easier to work with than using a regular ol' DB?

I think the evolution of this person's personal server as outlined in the readme is very insightful.

Goes from literally no configuration management (just SSH into the box to install your stuff) to Ansible and then to Docker and k8s. Quite the Journey.

I think a lot of people here can relate, I certainly can.

Looks nice!

I'm on an older phone though and your landing Page murders it. Animations stutter and scrolling is pretty janky. Not sure I'd that's an issue with the components or something else?

Whenever this comes up I'm glad having read "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism".

Not an easy read by any means, but it's core hypothesis is spot on IMO: Google (and others) core business is aggregating and processing as much user data as possible. Every product they create and every decision they make aims to increase or protect their access to data.

Guess what. Based on the success of your blog, not only are you a leader - you're a _thought_ leader now!

Good luck.

Neat idea. Since everything is public, the next step obviously is to add a wall of fame/shame, right?

I'm currently facing the same problem - adding a blog to a Rails app.

I thought Sitepress looks interesting, as its supposed to integrate with Rails. Have you given that one a try?

https://sitepress.cc/

It's a good idea.

My main issue is that if you want to build anything these days it kinda has to look at least decent. All depends on your customers and project, but generally expectations towards UI are high these days.

I'm trying something similar where I style my first prototype - but I'm only allowed to use black and white. Forces me to consider layout, but helps avoid the design rabbit-hole.

Mostly ideation and placeholder content. Say I have a rough idea for a logo. I'll hammer something in Midjourney to iterate on ideas.

Honesty I had a blast with Midjourney. Takes some getting used to, and it's not actually that useful (I think) but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't great fun to use.

I adore Syncthing. I agree that it's iffy to set up, but once it works it works.

Interesting that the discussion here focuses so much on the actual language.

I think the language is fine, but the thing that really makes me stick with Ruby is the ecosystem and the culture it fosters. The article also makes that point.

I have yet to see a programming community (around a language) that is as encouraging and nice as the one around Ruby.

Idempotency is one mathematical concept that's pretty useful for software engineers to understand. Heck, might be more useful than BigO.

- Useful to know when you work with APIs (as the article outlines).

- Very useful when working with background jobs. You're not gonna have a good time if those aren't idempotent.

- Good to know for interviews. I was asked to explain idempotency a handful of times, weird as that is.

Can't wait for the analysis on Orc numbers. Given that their home turf is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire, ash and dust I don't see them fielding the numbers they do. Not much arable land in Mordor, is there?

If anyone was wondering, like me, why it took over ten years to assemble this thing: The video at the end gives you a good idea.

I wonder how anyone goes about planning such an enormous effort.

> To receive constructive — and effective — feedback, we simply need to ask for it.

I almost stopped reading right there because it so violently disagrees with my experience.

I'm glad I made it through the article though, as it makes some good points. Ask for different feedback based on what makes sense at this point in time. Manage expectations . Alright.

The thing is, giving good, constructive feedback is hard. I don't think a lot of people are good at it, for various reasons. So no, even if you ask for feedback, chances you'll be getting good feedback are low.

If there's a way make that more likely I haven't found it yet.

Hilarious and unexpected twist at the end. Can't believe I haven't seen this before.

I love products with a bit of personality. There's tons of bookmark managers out there, but how many of those take the magical-mystical angle?

I don't have a use for Grimoire - not willing to change my bookmark workflow at this point - but you can be sure I'll remember it just based on that.

I don't play much anymore, but there's basically two games I keep coming back to. Starsector and Stellaris.

Both Games get updates every couple of months. Which is perfect, because you get something new every time you pick one of them up again.