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ceritium

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You can contact me at jose.galisteo.ruiz@gmail.com
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ceritium··on Software for One
I really believe in this software for one, or at least, be able to customise it as you need.

On that premise, I started building during a weekend, thanks to Claude, a small platform so I and, in theory, my family could deploy easily complex apps with a DB, emails, crons, background jobs, image processing, etc and without the risk of getting bitten by the cloud.

My family never used it, of course, but I deployed around 14 apps for me, friends, and family on a single VPS with 256 MB.

https://onvibe.run/

Later on, I discovered lovable and other services... when someone told me, " Hey, you just built lovable!

However, I really enjoyed the "design" of this system, and it's been useful for me. I am somewhat proud of the meta thing because Onvibe exposes an mcp, that allows you to build apps that can also expose MCPs...

ceritium··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
I built a kind of paas for llms, the idea was to allow my family deploy webs cheap and easy, my family doesn't use It, but It end being very useful form mento deploy small apps. You can check It out on https://onvibe.run there is a list of forkable apps that I use.

I did some kind of meta thing, because bownI can create apps with llm (like Claude) and expose an mcp on theme (like the notes and todolist apps).

ceritium··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2026)
A project where you create websites by just using the chat interface of your llm. It's like a paas but oriented to llms. If your ui support mcp It should work.

There are some examples I did with opus, sonet and deepseek models: https://onvibe.run/forkable

It has pg, file uploads, emails, etc. The mcp provides tools to run migrations, snapshots, drafts, etc.

I started It to allow my wifi and daughter create their custom tools.

ceritium··on Tailwind and slop apps
My trick, I just use bootstrap, ask Claude for a custom Styles following a style, palete etc. Much better experience than buying and adapting and existing bootstrap theme
ceritium··on Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota
I made recently a similar thing https://jmkr.es/claude-usage/
ceritium··on I Hate Tailwind and Love Bootstrap
Me too
ceritium··on We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2
Railway should try Rails
ceritium··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
Great, I have a MacBook Pro M5 for work which i know IS really fast because the whole suite of specs run in les than two minutes, but except for that my "old" air m1 with 16g of ram feels super snappy.

I am just excited waiting future releases (in 5 or 10 years) able to run local llms for coding.

ceritium··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
During the last year, in my spare time, I have been working on https://trypulso.com. The system has been working fine for the last year, and I have a real customer using it. I not even finished the landing page, but you can try it if you like.

Also, this Christmas I took a rest on Pulso, and I developed a small app to monitor the version & Support Lifecycle of large dependencies. https://stacktodate.club

ceritium··on Space Math Academy
How does it save the progress?
ceritium··on Lowtype: Elegant Types in Ruby
I love it, I liked what dry-initializer and dry-struct do, and I wanted something similar but simpler than RBS or Sorbet.

I tried once myself to implement something like lowtype, but without success.

ceritium··on Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs
Good, but I lost my trust in them, so my next NAS will be something else.
ceritium··on Ask HN: What's the ideal stack for a solo dev in 2025
I like Ruby on Rails + Postgres, GoodJob for background Jobs, sveltejs for complex widgets, bootstrap as CSS framework, vite for "compiling" the assets, deploy on Fly.io
ceritium··on Ask HN: Solo developer building a product? Show us your work and get feedback
Hi, I have been building https://babelfu.com, a translation service on top of Github; it fetches the translations from your GitHub repo and commits them back, so the source of truth of the translations is the repo itself. You can forget about sync tasks, collisions between branches, etc. In the end, if there are conflicts, you manage them on Git as the rest of your code.

It is available in a very early open-source version, which I will update at some moment if I see someone interested in it.

I would be very grateful if someone gave it a try to setup a project and provided some feedback.

ceritium··on Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
I am doing nothing, but I was wondering if it would make sense to combine a small LLM and SQLITE to parse date time human expressions. For example, given a human input like "last day of this month", the LLM will generate the following query `SELECT date('now','start of month','+1 month','-1 day');`

It is probably super overengineering, considering that pretty good libraries are already doing that on different languages, but it would be funny. I did some tests with chatGPT, and it worked sometimes. It would probably work with some fine-tuning, but I don't have the experience or the time right now.

ceritium··on The Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun
No if they go during the night
ceritium··on Launch HN: Innate (YC F24) – Home robots as easy to program as AI agents
Please, create a robot arm which I would instruct for iron and fold my clothes.
ceritium··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
I have been working on improving the editor UI (svelte), the project wizard and adding payments on https://babelfu.com

I haven't merged those improvements on the community edition (yet) because of time constraints.

The next thing I will be working on is the GitHub Marketplace.

ceritium··on RoRvsWild Ruby Documentation Theme
Congrats, it looks charming. As a suggestion, it would be great if the sidebar text was larger on mobile.
ceritium··on Ask HN: Who and how uses ensuring_owner_was on ActiveRecord
Yes, I read the "Rails" docs—the same that you linked—but I wanted to see how other projects use it. My surprise was that only a public project on Github uses it.
ceritium··on Make Pottery at Home Without a Kiln (Or Anything Else) [video]
Does someone know if cooking pottery on a home fireplace is possible?
ceritium··on Greppability is an underrated code metric
I built the command line tool flatito just for the Rails i18n translations keys.

I am unsure if I like the author's approach because there are other cons, but it's a good point.

* https://github.com/ceritium/flatito

ceritium··on The $16K Humanoid Robot Leaping into Production [video]
can that iron and fold clothes?
ceritium··on 'New El Nino' discovered south of equator
El Nino bravo!
ceritium··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
keepthis.site its open, i did It for me, there are some signip but i think i am the only active user.

Also consumebefore.jose.gr and a few small tools you can find on my blog.

ceritium··on Show HN: Babelfu – manage translations on top of GitHub
Syncing keys between the "translations service" and the repo can be a real headache, especially when multiple developers work on different branches. Adding, removing, or editing keys can quickly become a cumbersome task.

I thought that building a translation tool on top of Github (at the moment) would eliminate the hassle of syncing the keys between the service and your repository.

Babelfu is in a pretty alpha stage, with minimal features to test the idea, but it's enough to get a taste of its potential. If you want to give it a try, you can follow this guide https://github.com/babelfu/babelfu-demo

There is an instance ready for use at https://babelfu.com

If you are interested in the idea or have any feedback, use the GitHub issues, email me (check my profile), or use this thread.

Many thanks for your time!

ceritium··on Ask HN: How can I download a video ads from YouTube
Many thanks for the tip, I am willing to attend to your next TED Talk.
ceritium··on BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem
I did something similar some years ago, https://github.com/ceritium/fuse-torrent

I had no idea what I was doing, most of the hard work IS done by the torrent-stream node package

ceritium··on Show HN: Flatito, grep for YAML and JSON files
Hi, I didn't know about yq until now; as far as I can see, it seems to allow complex queries and manipulations and handle more formats. Flatito, on the contrary, only handles YAML and JSON. It can look in a whole directory, and most importantly for me, it shows the line number needed to locate the value.
ceritium··on Show HN: Flatito, grep for YAML and JSON files
Hi! Author here! I am spanish, flato means that, but it's also that pain in the side of the belly when you are running.
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