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Re:The Twelve-Factor App on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:25AM (#49479969)
I've got to give credit where it is due... It really feels like Laravel Cloud picked up where Heroku left off. Or at least is trying to.
Re:What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes on Monday June 15, 2026 @07:25PM (#48548467)
Kamal is somewhere in the middle. Probably a little closer to a bunch of bash scripts. But it’ll get your container going pretty quick. Can take a bit of fiddling with SSH/docker-login. Plus it handles deployments very well.
Re:Retro-Tech Parenting on Friday June 05, 2026 @10:21AM (#48412943)
We built https://www.beanstalk.club/ just for this!!! Our kids organize play dates on their own now. They can collaborate on video games with their friends.
Re:Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @01:17PM (#48297364)
Agree. I think that's what "Owner Operated" used to mean. Would be interesting to have a certification for these businesses. I've also started collecting related links:

https://privateequityvet.org/vet-list/ https://whoownsmydentists.com/ https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/

Setup my self-hosted Forgejo last night. Very pleased so far.
Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants on Thursday April 30, 2026 @10:49AM (#47963413)
I love that you mention 'extreme care'. I was enthralled with this look inside a plant and the operations involved. Truly a sight to behold. And extreme care is not an overstatement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0afQ6w3Bjw

Seems like there are a bunch of alternatives popping up including some DIY solutions. Which is really awesome in this space. Check out https://www.beanstalk.club/ I've done some work with these folks. I love their bring-your-own-phone approach. There are so many cool old-school phones out there, even on ebay. We've also seen lots of success with Beanstalk and a simple $20 cordless phone. Kids love wandering around chit-chatting. There's also a ton of momentum around the https://www.waituntil8th.org/ pledge.
If you liked this post... enjoy: Pipe Organ (An instrument the size of a building) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeB3JnKp8To
Re:Fast on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @03:20PM (#44738444)
Agree. One of my favorite tropes to product and leadership is that “performance is a feature”.
I like this a lot. I am looking forward to having something similar built into Metabase.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Monday March 31, 2025 @10:56AM (#43535766)
I'm working on a small project to bring plain-old-telephones back into our children's lives. Quick, screen-less connections with grandparents, cousins, and friends is as quick as picking up the phone and pressing one button. Imagine that.

https://www.beanstalk.club/

In a similar vein. I have been following a creator doing some very cool things with 3d printed rc construction equipment.

https://professorboots.com/

Re:macOS Tips and Tricks (2022) on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:45AM (#43204584)
Firefox has this built in. That’s how I do it.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/take-screenshots-firefo...

Re:Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @03:07PM (#43187621)
Thanks for digging in.
Re:Ask HN: Spending Tracking Tools on Monday January 06, 2025 @08:53AM (#42610540)
I've been tracking my expenses meticulously and manually for over 10 years now with https://budgetmyway.com/. I've built this to scratch my own itch, and built an expense tracker that meets "my" needs. I have a handful of happy users. This is more of a passion project and not a solo-startup or anything like that. I'd love to hear your feedback and see if it meets your needs. There are not any external data connections via Plaid, no 3rd party data tracking or sharing, your data is your data.

I know manual expense tracking might sound like a bear, but I find it cathartic and reflective to have to enter expenses.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025) on Thursday January 02, 2025 @12:49PM (#42576690)
Scotch | Fullstack Software Engineer | REMOTE within US | Full-time | https://scotchnetworks.com

Scotch’s mission is to modernize one of the oldest industries on earth: the $1.6T beverage alcohol market. We’re starting by building the next-generation operating system for BevAlc retailers (POS, payments, backoffice, ecommerce). If you love Rails, solving real-world problems, and want to work with a very small team, we’d love to talk.

We are seeking a fullstack engineer with a proclivity for the frontend to join our very early stage engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining a high-quality, mission-critical web application using Ruby on Rails + Hotwire and following the best practices in modern web development. If you're amped about Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus + Rails, we might be the right next stop for you!

Our tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus, ViewComponents, PostgreSQL

For more details and to apply: https://jobs.gorails.com/jobs/full-stack-engineer-64897677

This guy seems to have a good handle on diy aero. Both air and water.

https://youtube.com/@rctestflight

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024) on Monday December 02, 2024 @06:43PM (#42301614)
Scotch | Fullstack Software Engineer | REMOTE within US | Full-time | https://scotchnetworks.com Scotch’s mission is to modernize one of the oldest industries on earth: the $1.6T beverage alcohol market. We’re starting by building the next-generation operating system for BevAlc retailers (POS, payments, backoffice, ecommerce). If you love Rails, solving real-world problems, and want to work with a very small team, we’d love to talk. We are seeking a fullstack engineer with a proclivity for the frontend to join our very early stage engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining a high-quality, mission-critical web application using Ruby on Rails + Hotwire and following the best practices in modern web development. If you're amped about Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus + Rails, we might be the right next stop for you! Our tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus, ViewComponents, PostgreSQL For more details and to apply: https://jobs.rubyonrails.org/jobs/1054-fullstack-engineer-fl...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024) on Friday November 01, 2024 @12:33PM (#42018700)
Scotch | Fullstack Software Engineer | REMOTE within US | Full-time | https://scotchnetworks.com

Scotch’s mission is to modernize one of the oldest industries on earth: the $1.6T beverage alcohol market. We’re starting by building the next-generation operating system for BevAlc retailers (POS, payments, backoffice, ecommerce). If you love Rails, solving real-world problems, and want to work with a very small team, we’d love to talk.

We are seeking a fullstack engineer with a proclivity for the frontend to join our very early stage engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining a high-quality, mission-critical web application using Ruby on Rails + Hotwire and following the best practices in modern web development.

If you're amped about Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus + Rails, we might be the right next stop for you!

Our tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus, ViewComponents, PostgreSQL

For more details and to apply: https://jobs.rubyonrails.org/jobs/1054-fullstack-engineer-fl...

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @12:07PM (#41972653)
I've been hacking on a super simple on-call rotation manager. Been fun to learn Hotwire/Stimulus. https://majorpager.com
I love this space; stability & response! After my last full-time gig, I was also frustrated with the available tooling and ONLY wanted an on-call scheduling tool with simple calendar integration. So I built: https://majorpager.com/ Not OSS, but very simple and hopefully pretty straightforward to use. I'm certainly wide open to feedback.
Re:Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on? on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @08:27PM (#39834437)
Thank you ^... to parent comment... Apologies. I will likely change that. Probably too tongue-in-cheek.
Re:Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on? on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @04:23PM (#39832424)
https://majorpager.com - Very simple on-call rotation scheduling for small teams!!! I even toyed with the idea of putting a `#noai` hashtag on the homepage.
Re:RoR Debugbar on Sunday February 18, 2024 @12:44PM (#39421165)
Symfony’s dev toolbar has got to be one of the best.

https://symfony.com/doc/current/profiler.html

Always miss this in my RoR projects.

As with most devs, I also saw personal budgeting as a nail and I had a hammer. Here's my somewhat opinionated take on personal expense tracking and budgeting. I'm wide open to feedback: https://budgetmyway.com
Re:Postgres as Queue on Saturday February 10, 2024 @07:49AM (#39325814)
In the world of Ruby, GoodJob [0] has been doing a _good job_ so far.

[0] - https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job

Re: on Saturday February 10, 2024 @07:44AM (#39325781)
I just started building out on-call rotation scheduling to fit teams that already have an alerting solution and need simple automated scheduling. I’d love to get some feedback: https://majorpager.com
Re:Early Europeans Ate Seaweed for Thousands of Years on Thursday October 19, 2023 @01:16PM (#37945649)
Check out Brad Leone’s tour of a kelp farm. https://youtu.be/XhpGNuWRQTE
Really enjoyed reading through kbin as a Symfony fan. https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core

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