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theappsecguy··on Helix Editor – Release 25.01 Highlights
Helix is getting so much better every release, it's been a pleasure to use. Honestly, the biggest things that it still needs to be "feature-complete" is a file tree, and a plugin interface implementation.
theappsecguy··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
What is the salary range for Canada ?
theappsecguy··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
Real shame when US companies miss out on Canadian talent like this…
theappsecguy··on Ask HN: How do some software engineers "do it all"?
Thanks for your input! I have experienced the acceleration of obsession as well but I find that I can’t maintain it or spark it on demand.

I guess I’m looking at systematic changes that yield some of those results but for long stretches of time.

I get that as life moves forward maybe I just don’t have it in me to out some things ahead of everything else.

theappsecguy··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
Salary range?
theappsecguy··on Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer
I want to like ruby lsp but it takes about 8 seconds to get method references in a large monorepo. It’s simply not good enough, and forces anyone looking for a good devex into rubymine
theappsecguy··on Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer
Perhaps, but ruby is trivial to learn.
theappsecguy··on Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%
I don’t know. My shop wanted 1800 to change my brakes. I bought the parts for 300 and got it done in a day (first time). Seems like a pretty good payback and good skill to have. My neighbour has a car lift which certainly helped.
theappsecguy··on Fusion power is getting closer
It’s been getting closer for what, two decades now?
theappsecguy··on Chegg: Bay Area tech company, down from $12B to $159M in value, lays offs
Chat GPT just destroyed them and some other companies. The used to have a lot of homework solutions with step by step instructions. I think I even paid for chegg one year as I had an awful professor.
theappsecguy··on We're experimenting with advertising
Insane to pay that amount from what I seen. I had a free 6 months trial and got almost no value from it tbh
theappsecguy··on Looking for a Job Is Tough
I mean it’s mostly dumb because it either forces people to move or closes off a bunch of people from applying.

I don’t want to move someone with obscene housing costs and rampant crime. Most people don’t, especially ones that have families, houses, etc.

theappsecguy··on Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as Largest Company
Not really. A lot of people are happy to take in a metric ton of cash from what is very questionable hype. Nvidia certainly doesn’t mind everyone overselling AI, and neither do CEOs drooling at the thought of AI replacing workers. That’s the reason behind all this insanity.
theappsecguy··on Rails 8.0 Released
Rails 8 is very stable from what I have seen
theappsecguy··on Blog Writing for Developers (2023)
Well put, I also did exactly this. It’s just markdown, as soon as I deploy it’s live, no publish step.

I’m writing to help myself get better at technical communication and to solidify the concepts in my own head in depth.

theappsecguy··on Rewrite It in Rails
I mean the Rails way would be Hotwire. It’s dead simple and a joy to program.
theappsecguy··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)
Man I wish notion was remote friendly and willing to hire in Canada.
theappsecguy··on ChatGPT Search
Uh, sorry what?

What happens when you need to search something new? Just hallucinations all the way down?

theappsecguy··on Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine
Again and again I see people saying this and it has not been my experience whatsoever.

It’s great for boilerplate, that’s about it.

theappsecguy··on 16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs
Watch this be accompanied by a price increase…
theappsecguy··on Artificial intelligence is losing hype
Dear lord, if someone started relying on LLMs for legal documents, their clients would be royally screwed…
theappsecguy··on Transformers for Ruby
How does one person end up being this productive? With I assume a pretty busy life of work, family, etc…
theappsecguy··on Transformers for Ruby
I find the ruby gem ecosystem significantly richer than any another. Maybe not by sheer quality, which quickly translates to millions of abandoned libraries (I’m looking at you nom), but certainly quality.

It’s also recently on the rise in general.

theappsecguy··on Gitlab is reportedly up for sale
Hopefully someone decent buys it and reshapes the direction without major layoffs.

I use GitHub because there is no compelling reason not to and that’s what we have at work. But GitHub is stagnating and I have the idea of them having even more market share. Their AI propaganda is also insane.

theappsecguy··on Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
I really want to love Go for side projects but it’s just so verbose and time consuming.

I understand that a framework with ”batteries” goes against Go principles, but coming from Rails, which solves the common boring problems for me, Go just makes it too much of a pain.

At least as far as web dev goes, I’m sure Go is great for other stuff.

theappsecguy··on Workers are stuck in place because everyone is too afraid of a recession to quit
Not sure what silent quitting had to do with the unemployment rate increase?

This is mostly a result of utter incompetence and irresponsible spending during the pandemic. Economy got pumped with cheap money and there was always going to be a day when the gravy ends. Doesn’t help that tech over hired and poured funding in just about anything.

I’m calling it right now, AI will see the same crash within a few years.

theappsecguy··on Ask HN: Could AI be a dot com sized bubble?
Boy am I tired of people propelling this completely baseless narrative.

Everything that I have seen from ai makes me very secure that I’ll have work for far longer than desired.

theappsecguy··on Embed Crystal code directly in Ruby
This could honestly be huge for some Rails speedup
theappsecguy··on Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks
Used obsidian for a while but had too many pains with it. Eventually migrated to SuperNotes and couldn’t be happier.
theappsecguy··on Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
Only one I have been able to find is YNAB and I hate it. It’s expensive and forces a weird opinionated budgeting approach onto its users.
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