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boundlessdreamz

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Ruby on Rails consultant.

Creator: https://zestui.com - A UI toolkit for Ruby on Rails built with Phlex and Tailwind

Email: hello@manu-j.com

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boundlessdreamz··on Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
How do you trigger that in iOS? iOS can decide not to trigger it all from what I have read - https://mertbulan.com/dont-rely-on-bgapprefreshtask-for-your...

Even Android is not predicatable from my testing or I'm doing something wrong

boundlessdreamz··on Claude Opus 5
Your tool looks great!
boundlessdreamz··on Building a Blog with Elixir and Phoenix
Why is it useless?
boundlessdreamz··on We give every user SQL access to a shared ClickHouse cluster
How do you copy all the relevant data? Doesn't this create unnecessary load on your source DB?
boundlessdreamz··on Design and Implementation of Sprites
Is there a way to copy files to/from the sprite? Couldn't see an option for that in the CLI
boundlessdreamz··on Design and Implementation of Sprites
Yeah. My sprites never idled inspite of having nothing running in them and had to be destroyed. Ideally there should be two settings

1. A timeout after the last console session is exited 2. Force idle using the CLI

boundlessdreamz··on $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
Off-topic: when will postgres 18 be offered on metal?
boundlessdreamz··on Maestro – Next generation mobile UI automation
When testing mobile apps, how do you manage the data at the backend? i.e how do you ensure that data that you see in the app is he same every time and actions during the test do not affect the data for the next test?

When testing the backend in frameworks such as Rails, this is taken care of by seed data and DB transactions.

boundlessdreamz··on 7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025
This comment was most likely generated using AI It is reusing phrases from previous comments -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330710 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330639

boundlessdreamz··on Sanding UI
Linear has the best UI/UX of all the web apps I have used. After Gmail and Google Maps, I don't recall any other web app wowing me as much as Linear.
boundlessdreamz··on Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management
This is similar to how Rails handles secrets - https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#environment...

In Rails, the entire file is encrypted unlike here where only the secrets are

boundlessdreamz··on Do we need to store all that telemetry?
You question his competence.

> i feel like you have never touched servers/backend in anything more than simple projects (or at all). with full storage/memory there could be an issue that you won't be able to ssh to the server, so it speaks about your knowledge in this matter.

He was answering that.

If instead of dismissing someone outright and question their competence, you had raised specific concerns, this would have been a more productive conversation

boundlessdreamz··on Cache is King: A guide for Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions
runs-ons supports custom images - https://runs-on.com/features/byoi/ and caching to S3 - https://runs-on.com/reference/caching/

I haven't used it yet but these two features make it the clear favourite for me in alternate github action runners

boundlessdreamz··on Show HN: Managed GitHub Actions Runners for AWS
The depot.dev service has excellent caching for docker. It's almost like building locally.

Though the site (depot.dev) focuses on that aspect, this post doesn't.

@jacobwg - Do the runners in AWS get the same docker caching performance as depot.dev hosted runners?

boundlessdreamz··on Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
This is pretty much exactly what I wanted (yay for custom images) but the pricing makes it a non starter. Please consider a tiered monthly pricing based on build minutes.
boundlessdreamz··on Shadcn: Components that you can copy-paste into your apps
Depending on your stack, there are quite a few options.

Laravel:

- https://filamentphp.com/

- https://bladewindui.com/

Rails:

- https://zestui.com/ (Disclaimer: my project)

Alpine+Tailwind:

- https://devdojo.com/pines

- https://sailboatui.com/ (minimal alpine)

WebComponents:

- https://shoelace.style/

Others:

- https://daisyui.com/

- https://flowbite.com/

- https://preline.co/index.html

boundlessdreamz··on Shadcn: Components that you can copy-paste into your apps
He went to work for Vercel after this became successful.
boundlessdreamz··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
It will work with any existing Rails app as long as you are using

- Tailwind

- Stimulus

Installation instructions are here - https://zestui.com/docs/installation

It is right now only tested with Rails 7 and Ruby 3+ but it should work with Rails 6.1+ and Ruby 2.7+

boundlessdreamz··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
I built and recently released a UI kit for Rails - https://zestui.com

Built with Phlex, styled with Tailwind with custom built Stimulus controllers.

It's got

- 25 themes

- Dark Mode

- Form Builder

- Icons

- Built in Flash Toast

- The components are responsive or have specific mobile views

- All the JS needed (Stimulus controllers) is wired up automatically

Phlex is a game changer. It is simple, powerful, intuitive and performant. I will never ever write a component as a partial/ViewComponent again.

A short video (50 seconds) showing it off: https://youtu.be/OQmDZddLtR8

It has crossed $500/month but since it's a one time purchase it is too early to tell whether it will sustain since I launched it only in December 2023.

boundlessdreamz··on Unveiling the big leap in Ruby 3.3's IRB
Didn't syntax_tree come before Prism?
boundlessdreamz··on Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit
This comment has the details.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34366454

boundlessdreamz··on Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit
Precisely because it can be used to sprinkle JS functionality :)

Vue and Svelte are great but adopting them means that you are using Rails as just a backend. For the vast majority of apps, the Rails default stack works really well.

boundlessdreamz··on Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit
Maybe and it will be the default. But since this is a UI kit, I will expose an option to turn it off if the developer prefers that in general or in a specific context.
boundlessdreamz··on Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit
That is planned as an option.i.e the developer decides whether to offer that. Some don't like it because accidental clicks close the sheet/modal which can confuse non tech savvy users.
boundlessdreamz··on Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit
Haven't checked out Catalyst but I have used TailwindUI. The components are really good but if you are not using a JS framework, it's a lot of work to integrate. The regular JS version of TailwindUI uses Alpine which doesn't have a CSP compatible version so you will have to write the Javascript from scratch.

Partially due to these and frustrated by lack of component libraries in Rails, I built and recently released a UI kit for Rails - https://zestui.com

Built with Phlex, styled with Tailwind with custom built Stimulus controllers.

It's got

- 25 themes

- Dark Mode

- Form Builder

- Icons

- Built in Flash Toast

- The components are responsive or have specific mobile views

- All the JS needed (Stimulus controllers) is wired up automatically

Phlex is a game changer. It is simple, powerful, intuitive and performant. I will never ever write a component as a partial/ViewComponent again.

A short video (50 seconds) showing it off: https://youtu.be/OQmDZddLtR8

boundlessdreamz··on Launch HN: Bracket (YC W22) – Two-Way Sync Between Salesforce and Postgres
Congratulations on not giving up and solving a boring but hard problem.

What's the tech stack?

boundlessdreamz··on Rage: Fast web framework compatible with Rails
Also this doesn't show how database access is handled which is the hard part. If you are not touching the database, you can run Rails on falcon and get fiber based concurrency.

If you run falcon on rails and access database, then you have to explicitly checkin/checkout a connection to be safe. Details here - https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/42271.

boundlessdreamz··on My Secret Sauce to a $70K Book Launch
Thank you for writing this up. Couple of questions

1. What tools did you use to actually write the book? 2. How did you find the designer? (the landing page is fantastic) 3. Did you write all the landing page copy?

boundlessdreamz··on Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps
1. "Find out how" under "Switch from REST" on your homepage is not working.

2. Is there a way to disable auto resolving of conflicts? i.e to let the user know of the conflict?

boundlessdreamz··on Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative
Looks great

1. Are you funded?

2. https://www.deploysentinel.com/ - Are you going to work on this further?

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