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camillovisinion Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?

Once I found Ruby on Rails, I've never looked back. Simply put, no other framework I've worked with (in the Python and JS ecosystems, where I started out years ago), would come close in terms of speed - measured in the number of features as I can ship with Rails. It's just that good, and Ruby is an absolute joy to write.

camillovisinion Pattern Forms

Some time ago, I've read a book by architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander. In it, he presents a series of essential characteristics of wholeness: The "Fifteen Fundamental Properties" that give life to objects and buildings. I attempted to distill the essence of each property and have noted them here primarily for my own reference:

https://camillovisini.com/writing/fifteen-fundamental-proper...

camillovisinion HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI

Maybe this is also interesting for you: https://github.com/aviflombaum/shadcn-rails

camillovisinion Ask HN: What are the best-designed news websites you’ve come across?

https://www.nzz.ch/

camillovisinion Visual design rules you can safely follow

Last year I've read a book by architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander. He introduces a collection of fundamental properties of wholeness - the Fifteen Fundamental Properties from which life in objects and buildings emerges. I tried to capture the essence of each property, mostly for my own reference I put them here https://camillovisini.com/article/fifteen-fundamental-proper...

camillovisinion Ask HN: Share your personal site

Here‘s mine https://camillovisini.com/

camillovisinion Fresh – Next-gen web framework

See astro: https://docs.astro.build/en/core-concepts/partial-hydration/...

camillovisinion Anime2Sketch: A sketch extractor for illustration, anime art, manga

How WSJ stipple drawings are made: https://youtu.be/sZzP9PQJXLs

camillovisinion Exploring the nature of genius

Studying Lenin's Brain: https://brain.mpg.de/institute/history/lenins-brain.html

  When Lenin died of a brain hemorrhage in 1924, his brain was preserved in formaldehyde, where it remained for two years. In 1926, [German physician and neurologist Oskar] Vogt was recruited by the Soviet government to help establish Lenin's genius via histological investigation of his brain.

  In 1927, Vogt gave a preliminary report on his findings in Moscow, concluding from his histological observations that Lenin must have been an athlete in associative thinking ("Assoziationsathlet") - a conclusion deemed farfetched by some of his neurologist colleagues and adversaries.

camillovisinion How the spread of sheds threatens cities

„Junk Cabin: Secretly building my wife a COVID office“ https://youtu.be/BzSeGJF6RhM

camillovisinion Implementing FastAPI Services – Abstraction and Separation of Concerns

Thank you for your kind words, I'm glad you found the article useful! What a surprise to wake up today, and see it on the front page of HN :)

camillovisinion Personal Wiki for Vim

I'm curious, did you consider org-roam (for instance on emacs-doom)?

camillovisinion Diagram as Code

Visually Whimsical looks absolutely stunning... Wow

camillovisinion Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith

> Melvin Conway, who introduced the idea in 1967.

camillovisinion Show HN: I made a site that aggregates entry-level positions

  10+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years of management experience leading engineering teams

camillovisinion How toilet paper is made (2014) [video]

Flashbacks to my childhood...

camillovisinion AI for generative design: Plain text to 3D Designs

Stunning work, congratulations. That was a pleasure to read.

camillovisinion How I Start: Rust

Great article, thank you! A suggestion: The code examples were somewhat hard to read. Perhaps you could add syntax highlighting (e.g. via prism or highlight.js).

camillovisinion Redwood: An integrated, full-stack, JavaScript web framework for the JAMstack

HTML

camillovisinion Using Anki to remember what you read

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22492381

camillovisinion What's so hard about PDF text extraction?

For academic papers: GROBID [0] is a machine learning library for extracting, parsing and re-structuring raw documents such as PDF into structured XML/TEI encoded documents with a particular focus on technical and scientific publications.

[0] https://github.com/kermitt2/grobid/

camillovisinion Brunsli: Practical JPEG repacker (now part of JPEG XL)

How about grittibanzli?

https://github.com/google/grittibanzli

camillovisinion A journey to searching Have I Been Pwned database in 49μs

Thank you for these resources. Truly ingenious.

camillovisinion Vue.js Documentary [video]

Check out vscodium: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

camillovisinion Why we need a book about naming

> A small nitpick - BMW is not an acronym

BMW is an acronym for Bayerische Motoren Werke in German (or Bavarian Motor Works in English).

camillovisinion Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?