Brad Gessler
@bradgessler
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Founded & bootstrapped @polleverywhere to $10m+ ARR. Rubyist at https://t.co/wZuyUy428K. Dad of 3 girls.
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Joined March 2007
What SaaS has the best developer experience for installing a gem in Rails, getting you an API key, and have their service working in production in under 5 minutes?
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Imagine if instead of rewriting the UI in React, GH invested in fixing their server-side rendered Rails views? Saying something like Hotwire would work is reductive, but I'd imagine their engineers would have emerged with something like it and kept the UI code more cohesive.
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Users want a responsive UI, which they're not getting. In fact, things have went in the opposite direction and are much slower. Developers inside of Github are probably struggling to ship new features and bug fixes since they have to implement in n+1 places instead of n.
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I don't know Jared or the details of what's going on inside of Github, but from my experience I've never seen a technical migration project go smoothly. I'd imagine Github execs want more AI features, not a react rendering service waterfall with react paradigms...
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I call these "promise-land projects" Business stakeholders don't care about them, it breaks stuff for users without giving them new capabilities, & they rarely get completed. When teams ask for rewrites, I ask them to instead solve the root cause that's prompting the rewrite.
@thdxr The current problem is that we are not fully migrated yet to azure + the rails app calls out to a react rendering service in a waterfall. Then there are then quite a few data and client side react paradigms (react router, a custom router, relay, and some react query more
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If all goes well, the free Open Graph utility Iβm working on ships early next week. The goal is to create the best one on the planet for people who need to test OG consumers & providers. After that, Iβll ship paid services that make deep OG integrations to any website easy.
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Pheels good to be phlexing again. πͺ
Back to free Phlex on Rails videos! This one covers how endless methods and nested classes can keep variants of your components in the same place without blowing up your lines of code. https://t.co/m8Lett0Uvz
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I hope an unintended consequence of AI generated software is higher quality, not βmore featuresβ or βmore softwareβ Sadly the trend line from the past into the future suggests weβll be getting a higher quantity of less deterministic software. π
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This is how you derisk the development of a gas turbine engine for a supersonic aircraft. @boomsupersonic will generate revenue and gather real world data before they go through the insanely expensive, risky, & time consuming process of FAA flight certification. πππ
A new product, a new customer, a new financing! Introducing Superpower: a 42MW natural gas turbine optimized for AI datacenters, built on our supersonic technology. Superpower launches with a 1.21GW order from @CrusoeAI Backstory π§΅π
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Hard to beat the feeling of finding a set of banger domain names and social handles that are available.
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Or you could skip all the MCP nonsense and drop @terminalwire in your Rails app if you want AI integration in a day. One fringe benefit is pesky human intelligence can use it to. https://t.co/qgQqDprvsR
terminalwire.com
Build command-line interface terminal apps in your favorite web application frameworks like Rails, Next.js, ASP.net, Spring, Phoenix, Django, and more.
Learn how to use the new xmcp CLI to connect to any remote MCP server and access their tools πππ‘ @π‘πππ-πππ/πππ ππππππππ
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I think this is going to be the last Fizzy RTFSC. I've got a few walk & talks from SF Ruby Conf in the queue I need to edit and publish. Oh and I figured out after making this video that Fizzy has an accounts table.
I missed @37signals fizzy-sass repo last week, so I cracked that open to get a closer look, discovered the "Queen Bee", and talk about how the debate on the word "Open Source" is kind of pointless. π¬ Hope you enjoy! π https://t.co/iohao4dwuv
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Peak software development, more straightforward and easier than "Vibe Coding". When I think about great developer experiences, Visual Basic 6 and Microsoft Access come to mind.
You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds. No Electron, no Game Engines, no Web frameworks. Just a lean fast .EXE produced in seconds. Works on any Windows machine WITHOUT Internet connection. Software Development is actually going backwards.
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Iβve found when I try to add tools to my dev workflow, things start breaking across the multiple workstations I use to write code, and fixing those issues takes away from building stuff or telling people about the stuff Iβm building.
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One of my problems adopting AI workflows is that Iβve never much of a βtool guyβ I use a mostly stock @zeddotdev editor & fumble around with my mouse when I edit because I donβt have can key bindings. My strategy is to be lazy about it until sane defaults eventually land in Zed
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I'm going to start a Vanilla CSS movement @paulg pioneered on HN decades ago that uses the HTML style attribute instead of Tailwind utility classes.
Writing Vanilla CSS is going to make a comeback. There will be some standard CSS files for utilities like Tailwind, but vanilla CSS without a build step is making a comeback.
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One of the more surprising things about modern workstations is how long it still takes to deal with anything video. Exporting a Fizzy SaaS @BeautifulRubyHQ video that's 24 min long, and its going to take about 24 min to export from ScreenFlow on an Mac Studio M1
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I can't believe I might be changing my mind about Linters and Rubocop. π³
@dneighbors I always loathed Rubocop and Linters, mainly because I viewed them as barriers & friction to shipping. Now that LLMs are cranking out old syntax, it might actually help move things along faster & burn cheaper CPU cycles instead of tokens.
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