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joshestroudon Ask HN: What is a great project based Rails tutorial for 2025?

Build a frontend CRUD app for an Amazon ecommerce store powered by Ruby On Rails. Use SQL, Ruby On Rails ERB, and Puma. No React, no Javascript, and no advanced styling - Build it to learn the backend and the SQL. Ruby On Rail's ORM is delicious :)

joshestroudon Ask HN: Which language for Advent of Code in 2024?

math :)

joshestroudon Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts

arcalinea

joshestroudon Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?

joshestroudon Ask HN: What open source projects need help?

2010s

joshestroudon Ask HN: Why are you a generalist programmer?

joshestroudon Ask HN: Voting Data Source by County?

AI github

joshestroudon I Don't Have Spotify

joshestroudon Ask HN: What hacks/tips do you use to make AI work better for you?

joshestroudon Ask HN: What are your favourite technical newsletters?

https://angellaunch.com - Startup events which encourage developers to network and meet like minds :)

joshestroudon Ask HN: What is your one-person-SaaS project?

Superaffective AI, an AI startup in the SF Bay

Online at https://superaffective.ai

Open source code on GitHub at https://github.com/joshagilend

joshestroudon In Constant Battle with Insurers, Doctors Reach for a Cudgel: A.I

this is a great article - Informative and interesting!

joshestroudon Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)

agree

joshestroudon The developers suing over GitHub Copilot got dealt a major blow in court

ouch

joshestroudon LLM Fight Club

This is fun :) I like it a lot! Good job :)

joshestroudon Ask HN: Those of you who don't use AWS/Azure/GCP, what do you use for hosting?

I use Cloudflare Serverless for front end apps and Render for backend services.

- Cloudflare [1] scales easily and has a lot of easy to use services like databases and storage buckets, JAM Stack front end pages, and CDN services for images and videos.

- Render [2] has been great for us to spin up Python services quickly. I haven't worked with a production load on Render, but I hear good things :)

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/

[2] https://render.com/

joshestroudon Ask HN: How do I find my niche and hone my skills as a software engineer?

When I was a junior in college I took a project class every semester, building a portfolio which showed off my talent and skills.

See if there are clubs which support your interests in engineering and computing.

joshestroudon Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

agilend.tv - TV channel for business-centered video with embeds from Cloudflare serverless and YouTube.

joshestroudon [dead]

wow amazing! one of the best marketing summaries for a NSFW Girlfriend Creator that I’ve seen :)

joshestroudon What's the best way to grow and distribute a B2B waitlist

LinkedIn posts every day for six months.

joshestroudon Ask HN: What is the best AI powered product you have experienced?

Hands down ChatGPT.

Google Gemini is a close second - using it for Google Search is amazing :)

#google

joshestroudon Do you need to verify the things you buy online?

I went to the Google Store today and they verified my item with an in person ID check. That was pretty cool.

#mountainview :)

joshestroudon Ask HN: Are there any websites for SQL puzzle games?

+1 I like this one a lot.

joshestroudon Google DeepMind's new generative model makes Super Mario–like games from scratch

Wow!

joshestroudon Show HN: Listen to 3min clips of daily tech news stories instead of reading them

This was fun. Great demo, fun presentation, and I accidentally locked my phone and noticed it was still playing… Very cool for a web app!

Good job.

joshestroudon I Ripped My Open Source Product Apart for a Complete Rebuild

I liked the article you wrote. Good job!

joshestroudon Ask HN: What cool projects did you build with serverless workers?

We used Cloudflare serverless to build several mini-apps for frontend. We liked that it was fast, and we could code in vanilla HTML. In fact, our favorite app was coded in less than an hour, and hosted on Cloudflare.

Here's the app demo: https://joshstroud.com/apps/spotify-notification

The page is hosted on Cloudflare within a single HTML file. Here's the code on GitHub: https://github.com/joshagilend/joshstroud.com/blob/9bece41b5...

Cloudflare serverless is free, often times. I like that a lot :)

joshestroudon ChatGPT if it were released in 2006 [video]

One of the best videos with a keen sense of history and humor on ChatGPT. Thanks for posting :)

joshestroudon Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora

ouch

joshestroudon Ask HN: Where are the AI internships that everyone is looking for?

I would say many people find AI jobs through referrals and chance encounters. There’s a high degree of serendipity in the AI space and I found my way into it by chance in 2017.

Feel free to email me about AI jobs and I can see if there’s any good openings I know about :)