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deedubaya··on Ruby for Good
I’m glad to see conferences like this exist. It creates dedicated space for these focuses and the people who care passionately about them.
deedubaya··on MIT Living Wage Calculator
That’s 2080 paid hours per year. Inclusive of paid time off, holidays, etc.
deedubaya··on Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters
Interesting “built with these tools” to “useful in this way” ratio
deedubaya··on Show HN: Stepped Actions – distributed workflow orchestration for Rails
Congratulations on shipping this, I’m sure folks will find it useful!

The rails native way to do this is to track state in a db row and queuing “next step” jobs as the data changes. This can get verbose especially for smaller pass/fail workflows. However, I find this works better (not worse imo) in more complex workflows as the state is tracked, queryable, can be surfaced in UIs, and resumed “manually” in the event of an outage.

deedubaya··on The Rubygems.org takeover
All of this sucks, and it’s time for the community to move on.

It’s a bad look for the ruby ecosystem. Continuing to rehash, throw mud, and speculate at this point likely harms the greater community more than any “side” would “win”.

deedubaya··on An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations
Where can I find that Potential Malware Inside™ sticker that warns everyone else who is familiar with the consequences? Asking for a friend!
deedubaya··on An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations
It pains me how this comment illustrates how ignorant most folks are of the consequences of installing software off the internet is (even technically inclined folks that hang out on HN). How many of us have non-security software installed on our computers today that do exactly these things... but sell the information? Definitely a non-zero number!

If folks understood this better, there would be less reason for software like Huntress' EDR to exist.

deedubaya··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
A multi-node, multi-processes, queue based rspec test runner with a dx that doesn’t suck. Open source.
deedubaya··on Ruby on Rails Audit Complete
As with all security audits, most findings are a balance between risk and usability.
deedubaya··on Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O
He literally mentioned backups and not everyone needs HA?
deedubaya··on When flat rate movers won't answer your calls
I paid almost as much for an in-state, 240 mile, move without packing/unpacking.

Get what ya pay for? If felt extremely expensive at the time but after hearing a few horror stories…

deedubaya··on Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites in bid to take on Starlink
Why are these going up on ULA rockets and not Blue Origin?
deedubaya··on Show HN: I built a Ruby gem that handles memoization with a ttl
See https://github.com/huntresslabs/ttl_memoizeable for an alternative implementation.

For those who don’t understand why you might want something like this: if you’re doing high enough throughput where eventual consistency is effectively the same as atomic consistency and IO hurts (i.e. redis calls) you may want to cache in memory with something like this.

My implementation above was born out of the need to adjust global state on-the-fly in a system processing hundreds of thousands of requests per second.

deedubaya··on Ask HN: Should I leave the company I co-founded?
I’ve seen cofounder departures go down a few times second hand/tangentially.

Not a single company survived afterwards.

Are you the CEO? If so, gain the buy-in from your cofounder to follow your direction. If not, find a way to get onboard… or probably damage the company with a departure.

deedubaya··on The Burnout Machine
I might agree from the tech worker’s perspective, except to someone working in fast food flipping burgers, a tech worker making $200k/$400k/$1M+ might as well be in the 1%.
deedubaya··on The Burnout Machine
Thanks for the spell check!
deedubaya··on The Burnout Machine
Burnout? Yes. Overwork? Maybe. Unionize? Eh…

The post reeks of privilege.

Go work a manual labor job outside in the sun for a few weeks and tell me how bad tech employees have it. Most of non-tech America is not empathetic to our plights. They’ll probably cheer on the offshoring of our jobs.

deedubaya··on Tesla drives into Wile E. Coyote fake road wall in camera vs. Lidar test
Where can I buy the alternative lidar based car?
deedubaya··on RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
Yes, that’s exactly what I was referring to. Folks (or llms!) never copy/paste doc examples, right?
deedubaya··on RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
Looks useful.

Allowing ai to eval() code or execute any sql statement would scare the crap outta me personally.

deedubaya··on "Normal" engineers are the key to great teams
This is my favorite take on 10x engineers https://testdouble.com/insights/the-looming-demise-of-the-10...
deedubaya··on Htmx 2.0.4 Released
As ceo of htmx I’ll field any questions now
deedubaya··on Glyphosate exacerbates neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's disease-like pathology
Yes, one time extreme exposure. Enough to make him sick for weeks that I never saw before or after.

No doubt continuous exposure didn’t help at all or might have been the real cause… or all of it combined. Or none of it.

deedubaya··on Glyphosate exacerbates neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's disease-like pathology
My father (farmer) has been diagnosed with AD. In the 90’s he had direct accidental exposure to herbicide drift from a crop duster in a windy day. He suffered from a short term illness immediately after and peripheral neuropathy since; I wonder if his AD diagnosis can be added to the list?

Also: AD fucking sucks.

deedubaya··on Tech CEOs are backtrack on RTO mandates–now, 3% want workers in office full-time
As a 100% remote employer this has been a boon for our hiring as it has freed up highly skilled employees that can’t/won’t RTO.
deedubaya··on Embed Crystal code directly in Ruby
Neat!
deedubaya··on Show HN: CodeRev.app – Code Review as Interview
We’ve implemented a single file code reading/refactor step of our interview processes and it has been very effective.

I think you could have great success with this, good luck!

deedubaya··on RoR Debugbar
Cool project, but I hate the use of the RoR acronym
deedubaya··on Thermoelectric heating stands at the brink of commercialization
Central, augmenting existing electric forced air with existing ducts. Similar sized home.
deedubaya··on Thermoelectric heating stands at the brink of commercialization
I was just last month quoted 15-23k for an install in the mountains of Idaho. I got a competitive quote and the price was similar.

If it cut my electricity bill in half it would take 10-20 years to break even.

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