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I really enjoyed reading Chris's deep dives on Ruby internals.

This one to be specific.

https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/rubykaigi21/

Rest in peace.

pvsukale3on Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://prithvi.profile.work

pvsukale3on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app

India doesn’t have a single “govt ban rooted phones from banking apps” rule, but RBI’s digital payment security controls explicitly allow banks to block mobile apps on rooted/jailbroken devices, and many do. Combine that with device+SIM binding requirements and platform attestation (e.g., Play Integrity), and the practical result is often “no banking/UPI on rooted phones.”

pvsukale3on Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

"Rails developers reinventing state machines for the 50th time"

Laughed so hard on this one.

pvsukale3on Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank

Thanks!

pvsukale3on The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

I have already bought hardcover on Amazon India

pvsukale3on Seeing America by train

If you like this genre I would highly recommend checking out Downey Live yt channel. He has documented a lot of cross country train trips in north america.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA5QbK3C98Q

pvsukale3on Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

I am a rails dev who bought tailwind ui, and i agree. I have had similar frustrations while integrating. Will give this a shot.

pvsukale3on Cosmopolitan Third Edition

How would one go about compiling Ruby to make a cross platform binary?

I have seen the Ruby build process and it also links to libraries like OpenSSL.

Reference: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/contributing/building_r...

pvsukale3on A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

I am glad this is getting more attention. Maybe it will replicate, maybe it will not, or maybe we will find something new. But happy that this is in the news cycle.

pvsukale3on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

Meanwhile twitter is having some serious glitches since 3 days. Replies hidden, broken notifications.

pvsukale3on Surviving Burnout (2015)

I am in my mid 20s. I have been burned out in the past. One thing I want to reiterate on is you should be able to afford a sabbatical when it is desperately needed. A few months at least without all of your finances going down.

If this is not the case with you, it is best in interest to take out some money and put towards that. That sabbatical gives you some breathing space for you in life. It is worth saving some money and avoiding some luxury expenses.

pvsukale3on Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

It is so nice to have the latest releases of both Ruby and Rails run in production as soon as they are released. Huge for indie developers and small teams that use Rails. Kudos to Shopify too, who are working on improving Ruby tooling a lot recently. Exciting time to be a Rails dev.

pvsukale3on Entrepreneurs who regret starting businesses

I agree, a lot of things you do in life are based on how many times can you absorb the failure and recover from it. This ability is just not financial, it also has physical, mental health, relationships aspect to it.

You could get be the "lucky" person either tomorrow or 10 years from now, question is how long can you afford to continue.

pvsukale3on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

Thank you! I missed it.

pvsukale3on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

https://ossdatbase.com

A catalogue of open source software. Recently it is picking up a little steam. (https://www.similarweb.com/website/ossdatabase.com)

Costs me $10 a month in hosting, Rails app. I have a job now, but plan to keep updating it. The site is open source https://github.com/prithvi16/ossdatabase

pvsukale3on Gail.com FAQ

My first thought after reading Gail.com was GAIL a government owned public sector company in India, it mostly deals in natural gas business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAIL

pvsukale3on Ruby 3.2.0

Thank you core team!

pvsukale3on A Linux Evening

This is kind of the reason I have switched to Mac. I used Ubuntu throughout my CSE degree and a year after. But system bricking at random upgrade, needing a fix was a no go for me at work. I understand some people do not face this issue.

But whenever I wanted to try out something new or install anything, some random stuff would go wrong and would need hours of searching and fixing. Happens much less often with MacOs.

pvsukale3on Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool

Related: Tooljet is also an open source alternative to Retool

https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet

pvsukale3on India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN

Yes, there is a company called Dmart and they are doing really well. Recently one opened in my area and local shop owner mentioned that it is killing their business. People are flocking to Dmart for discounts.

pvsukale3on India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN

I have personally seen this transition. Some folks who started from tier 2 cities got access to white collar jobs because of MNCs like TCS, Infosys. Now they have improved skillset through Internet courses and are now working on much higher pay at product companies.

MNCs are essentially doing what colleges fail to do in India. Teaching people how to code, talk to clients and bring them into formal employment.

pvsukale3on Ask HN: Developers who survived dot com crash/ 2008, your advice? tips? for 2023

Thanks for this, will definitely work more on core skills

pvsukale3on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2022)

Location: Pune, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rails, Ruby, Javascript, React

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eQvgZA6rAzU428v80Ja-XSdfJCM...

Email: c306zyg1@duck.com

I am a Rails developer based in Pune, India. I have been working with Rails for 4 years now. I have some open source Rails work too and many failed side projects. I am applying for the Senior Full Stack Developer roles.

My brief professional history:

2018 - Graduated with a CS degree in Engineering from Pune University

July 18 - March 21: Worked for a Rails consultancy, BigBinary.com, and worked with multiple international clients remotely and on-site. Mostly worked with Rails and React.

March 21 - present: Quit my job to go work full time on my side projects. All of them are built on Rails, Hotwire, and StimulusJS

- https://profile.work : Work profile builder and job application tracking - https://ossdatabase.com : Open source alternatives for popular software, this project itself is Open Source. (https://github.com/prithvi16/ossdatabase) and extensively uses Hotwire.

I have built and launched multiple products from ideation and design to building and marketing them. I have also worked in large and small teams. I like to take ownership of my work end to end and figure things out on my own.

pvsukale3on Watching 'Spirited Away' again, and again

I was high when I watched Spirited Away for the first time. I liked it so much I almost cried sometimes. After that watching I watched this movie multiple times without getting bored. What a masterpiece.

pvsukale3on The IT Crowd US Pilot (2007) [video]

Glad to see Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) here. That said Joel McHale stars in another show called Community. It was created by Dan Harmon (Rick and Morty). It is a highly underrated show. Has a lot of existential and meta commentary on show itself. Highly recommend if you are looking for a new sitcom.

pvsukale3on Worldwide Rail Network Map

If you want to see a regularly updated map of Indian Railways you can find it here [1]. This map has a lot of contributions from users and has details about new lines, lines under upgradation, electrification status.

This website can also show a route particular train takes in India fairly accurately. For example here is route map of Vivek express, covering longest distance, 4,218.6 kilometres (2,621.3 mi) in single journey [2].

[1] https://indiarailinfo.com/atlas

[2] https://indiarailinfo.com/train/map/route-dibrugarh-kanniyak... [2]

pvsukale3on Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project

Congratulations and best wishes to Andreas and his team. His work is very inspiring.

My question as a systems programming newbie:

Could a compiled binary of this project with HTML and CSS be used to create cross platform apps like Electron?

pvsukale3on Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

Do let me know if you like any of them :)

pvsukale3on Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

Tumbbad is highly underrated. PS it is set in the city where I'm from,Pune.