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Sanctum, Linux desktop environment made with Rust and Freya

Posted by pawurb on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:02AM
from the mespin.me dept.

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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and... on Saturday December 20, 2025 @07:25AM (#46335677)

https://abot.app/ currently at ~$2k/m, down from 4k a few years ago.

Chat Control 2.0 – EU Messages Scanning Despite Evidence of Privacy Risks

Posted by pawurb on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @10:45AM
from the reclaimthenet.org dept.

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-chat-control-law-permanent-privacy-risks-error-rates-lack-evidence

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Re:The Rust Performance Book on Monday November 24, 2025 @03:28AM (#46031655)

I got a ton of value from this book. It actually pushed me to dive deeper into profiling and eventually start building Rust perf tooling of my own https://github.com/pawurb/hotpath-rs

Re:Using LLMs and MCP to Debug PostgreSQL Performance in Rails on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @05:39PM (#44653308)

thanks for it works now, all the heavy lifting is done by LLM, gem only provides the data

Re:Using LLMs and MCP to Debug PostgreSQL Performance in Rails on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:48AM (#44648678)

Hi, author here. Can you elaborate?

Sidekiq 8.0

Posted by pawurb on Monday March 10, 2025 @02:46PM
from the mikeperham.com dept.

https://www.mikeperham.com/2025/03/05/introducing-sidekiq-8.0/

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Re:Support for functions is coming to CSS on Thursday March 06, 2025 @02:02PM (#43283903)

Sorry missed it.

Support for functions is coming to CSS

Posted by pawurb on Thursday March 06, 2025 @01:12PM
from the css-tricks.com dept.

https://css-tricks.com/functions-in-css/

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Deciding Between Heroku Alternatives

Posted by pawurb on Thursday March 06, 2025 @08:24AM
from the judoscale.com dept.

https://judoscale.com/blog/heroku-alternatives

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Dealing with (Hypothetical) Sham Ruby Packages

Posted by pawurb on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:43AM
from the blog.rubygems.org dept.

https://blog.rubygems.org/2025/02/20/dealing-with-sham-packages.html

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Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly: a guide to full-stack in‑browser action

Posted by pawurb on Monday February 24, 2025 @06:27PM
from the evilmartians.com dept.

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/ruby-on-rails-on-webassembly-a-guide-to-full-stack-in-browser-action

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Fix ActiveRecord Connection Pool Errors for Good

Posted by pawurb on Friday February 21, 2025 @10:58AM
from the judoscale.com dept.

https://judoscale.com/blog/active-record-connection-pool

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Battery offers six months of standby

Posted by pawurb on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:43AM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/news/615369/oukitel-wp100-titan-smartphone-battery-life-projector-flashlight-kickstarter

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EU Commission withdraws AI liability directive

Posted by pawurb on Friday February 14, 2025 @04:06AM
from the euractiv.com dept.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/commission-withdraws-ai-liability-directive-after-vance-attack-on-regulation/

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Re:The Average American Spent 2.5 Months on Their Phone in 2024 on Sunday December 29, 2024 @08:48AM (#42539917)

I'm 100% happy with my Nokia 110, only using smart phone at home for banking apps etc. Highly recommend switching to dumb phone for everyday use.

EU about to vote on Chat Control

Posted by pawurb on Friday December 06, 2024 @03:45AM
from the techradar.com dept.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/the-eu-proposal-to-scan-all-your-whatsapp-chats-is-back-on-the-agenda

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Coinbase won Tornado Cash appeal

Posted by pawurb on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @12:32PM
from the coindesk.com dept.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/11/26/tornado-cash-sanctions-overturned-by-u-s-appeals-court

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Re:Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform on Monday August 26, 2024 @12:31PM (#41358898)

I love dokku! I've been running my SAAS seamlessly with it for 5+ years now. It's awesome to see it actively maintained.

Re:Open-source alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify on Monday April 29, 2024 @09:22AM (#40198022)

Same. Dokku has worked seamlessly for me for 6+ years now!

How learning Rust changed my Ruby Workflow

Posted by pawurb on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @04:39AM
from the pawelurbanek.com dept.

https://pawelurbanek.com/rust-ruby-workflow

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Re:Ask HN: How did you get people to visit your personal blog? on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:21PM (#38268167)

Maybe this comment is a metaspam but I've build a checklist for whenever I publish: https://pawelurbanek.com/programming-blogpost-promotion.

Re:How to Improve Rails Caching with Brotli Compression on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @12:10PM (#37483457)

Thanks, I wasn't sure when it will be live. I'll update the post to reflect it.

Re:How to Improve Rails Caching with Brotli Compression on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @07:51AM (#37479638)

Thanks for suggestion. Gem supports custom compression algorithms. I'll try to add more compression types to the benchmarks.

How to Improve Rails Caching with Brotli Compression

Posted by pawurb on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:47AM
from the pawelurbanek.com dept.

https://pawelurbanek.com/rails-brotli-cache

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Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:14PM (#36588644)

https://pawelurbanek.com/ it allowed me transition from full-time dev to on & off consulting and living off my side projects. I try to publish new posts at least once a month.

Show HN: Gem for Rails cache, better performance and compression with Brotli

Posted by pawurb on Monday May 22, 2023 @09:48AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/pawurb/rails-brotli-cache

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Five Easy to Miss Performance Fixes for Rails Apps

Posted by pawurb on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @07:34AM
from the pawelurbanek.com dept.

https://pawelurbanek.com/rails-performance-fixes

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How to Freeze ETH and ERC20 Tokens Using Smart Contract

Posted by pawurb on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @06:47AM
from the pawelurbanek.com dept.

https://pawelurbanek.com/freeze-erc20-eth

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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue what's your p... on Friday April 14, 2023 @09:51AM (#35569571)

Friends from local IT communities that are also into "indie" stuff. But I believe it should be possible to reach out to people from online communities like indiehackers to form a group. There's also YC startup school https://www.startupschool.org/ that does matchmaking for founders.