Hacker News: bradly

New comment by bradly in "507 Mechanical Movements"

bradly — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:23:11 +0000

The developer for TIM made a modern version called Contraption Maker that is a lot of the same feel and available on Steam. There is a free playable demo that plays well on my 16G M1 Macbook Air. Full version is $12.99 USD

https://store.steampowered.com/app/241240/Contraption_Maker/

New comment by bradly in "And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway"

bradly — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:39:29 +0000

Jean Baudrillard wrote some really great pieces on what the proliferation of technology with things like the clocks and mirrors did to humans. I highly recommend his book The System of Objects (https://archive.org/details/systemofobjects0000baud/mode/2up).

New comment by bradly in "The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale"

bradly — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:09:31 +0000

Thank you. This makes more sense. I have an open source web app and it uses Docker (Kamal specifically) to make it easy for others to deploy.

New comment by bradly in "The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale"

bradly — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:34:23 +0000

I'm not sure I understand this post. Is this talking about self hosting Caddy in a home lab setting or just static web hosting on a VPS?

Bending Spoons to acquire Airtable for $1.285B

bradly — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:40:57 +0000

Article URL: https://investors.bendingspoons.com/newsroom/bending-spoons-agrees-to-acquire-airtable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167977

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by bradly in "Everything I Know (1975)"

bradly — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:26:43 +0000

For those unfamiliar with Bucky, I highly recommend his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Its a short, light read. He has a really interesting take on technology’s role in pirates and he was a firm believer that there is enough resources for everyone. He even talks about the US’s vulnerability to an attack on its water system.

https://archive.org/details/operatingmanualforspaceshipearth...

New comment by bradly in "Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran"

bradly — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:54:15 +0000

Not sure about defcon, but Buckminster Fuller wrote waay back in the sixties about the New York's vulnerability to a fresh water supply attack.

If you haven't read it Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth is one of my favorite books.

https://archive.org/details/operatingmanualforspaceshipearth...

New comment by bradly in "The lost joy of music piracy"

bradly — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:07:08 +0000

I can't speak for other streaming services, but at Apple Music we did pay musical industry professionals a lot of money to do human evaluation of specific searches. We had people with specific deep knowledge of genres and niches. At least in my little corner Apple that was quite a bit of effort put into this.

New comment by bradly in "Ask HN: Why Do AI Credits Expire"

bradly — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:14:56 +0000

Gift cards do not expire because laws were passed to prevent it. No such laws exist for AI credits, so companies will do what is most profitable.

New comment by bradly in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

bradly — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:09:52 +0000

  Location: San Diego, California / Lopez Island, Washington

  Remote: Preferred.

  Technologies/skills: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Git, Turbo/Stimulus, TailwindCSS/TailwindUI, AWS, Kamal, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, APIs, people

  Resume/CV: Ruby on Rails professionally since 2008 at Shopify, Apple, Intuit and a bunch of startups as well. 

  Email: bradly@rails247.com

Open to consulting/contract work or salaried positions. Please reach out for specifics. More info at https://bradlyfeeley.com

New comment by bradly in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

bradly — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:48:22 +0000

Location: San Diego, California / Lopez Island, Washington

Remote: Preferred.

Technologies/skills: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Git, Turbo/Stimulus, TailwindCSS/TailwindUI, AWS, Kamal, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, APIs, people

Resume/CV: Ruby on Rails professionally since 2008 at Shopify, Apple, Intuit and a bunch of startups as well. Open to consulting/contract work or salaried positions.

Email: bradly@rails247.com

More info: https://bradlyfeeley.com

New comment by bradly in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"

bradly — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:56:53 +0000

  Location: San Diego, California
  Remote: Yes. With travel up to one week a quarter.
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Git, Linux, Tailwind, Hotwire/Turbo, SQL/Postgres, Cloud infrastructure, people
  Résumé/CV: Seasoned Rails developer with extensive experience at Shopify, Apple, Intuit as well as many start ups. You can read more at https://bradlyfeeley.com
  Email: bradly@rails247.com

New comment by bradly in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

bradly — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:24:49 +0000

> 2020 they had $2m+ ARR

You've got an extra "R" in there. In 2020 their only revenue from was non-recurring lifetime software purchases. Like SaaS if you had a 100% churn rate.

New comment by bradly in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)"

bradly — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:59:51 +0000

  Location: San Diego, California
  Remote: Yes. With travel up to one week a quarter.
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Git, Linux, Tailwind, Hotwire/Turbo, SQL/Postgres, Cloud infrastructure, people
  Résumé/CV: Seasoned Rails developer with extensive experience at Shopify, Apple, Intuit as well as many start ups. You can read more at https://bradlyfeeley.com
  Email: bradly@rails247.com

New comment by bradly in "I sell onions on the Internet (2019)"

bradly — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 19:17:57 +0000

I’ve had swiftbestpractices.com forever and still haven’t done anything with it. Meanwhile I’ve been going ham on my latest purchase of myfacespacebook.com. It’s weird the things that actually motivate us.

New comment by bradly in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

bradly — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:29:27 +0000

If anyone would like to add some Christmas lights to their site I made a little web component to add a little cheer to any site.

https://github.com/bradly/christmas-lights.js

You can see it in action at https://bradlyfeeley.com and https://birdymusic.com

New comment by bradly in "CSS now has an if() conditional function"

bradly — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 01:55:04 +0000

Thanks, I’ll check this out!

New comment by bradly in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

bradly — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:09:33 +0000

Dang… I don’t even use React and it still brings down my sites. Good beats I guess.

New comment by bradly in "CSS now has an if() conditional function"

bradly — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:20:09 +0000

I recently implemented dark/light mode for the first time and was really surprised to find that in order to add a toggle I had to duplicate a both of vars/styles and use JavaScript. I'm looking forward to not having to deal with that cruft in the future.

New comment by bradly in "Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js"

bradly — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:14:54 +0000

Would be interesting to hear from Cloudflare the extent of exploitation before today. I'm assuming they can see if/when this started being exploited.