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New comment by butterlesstoast in "Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy"

butterlesstoast — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:20:09 +0000

I believe Hotwire for Ruby on Rails uses a lot of HTMX under the hood.

New comment by butterlesstoast in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

butterlesstoast — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:34:48 +0000

This is something I am very curious to learn from others since I am, relatively speaking, quite new to HN.

HN posts seem to go from very supportive to very critical of AI with very few articles striking a balance.

Was there a time or technology phase in the past (I'm thinking perhaps when everyone was going over to GraphQL just because of the hype) that you recall being similar to this? If so, how did you maintain curiosity without feeling yourself go through the extremes of "This is the worst / best thing to ever happen"?

New comment by butterlesstoast in "Shopify outage [resolved]"

butterlesstoast — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:14:11 +0000

I really like the Ruby on Rails ecosystem and have deeply considered working at Shopify.

This has to be one of the hardest parts of working there. A bug takes down other peoples businesses.

New comment by butterlesstoast in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"

butterlesstoast — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:01:50 +0000

Applying here was an odd experience. No acknowledgment or reply even after multiple follow ups. This was from applying back in 2025.

New comment by butterlesstoast in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

butterlesstoast — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:24:00 +0000

The bread shop analogy made my year

New comment by butterlesstoast in "Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks"

butterlesstoast — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:07:51 +0000

Perhaps even something like the Opus 4.7 token cost would become correlated with the market fluctuations...

New comment by butterlesstoast in "Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks"

butterlesstoast — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:06:49 +0000

I wonder how much Robinhood will profit from this change.

Obviously how much the average user will profit / compile debt from this change is a lot more variable.

New comment by butterlesstoast in "I built GitHub Store to 12,500 stars in 6 months – I started at 16"

butterlesstoast — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:14:07 +0000

How did you get 300+ karma in only 19 days?

Looking at your comments, it looks like a bot has been reading articles and leaving easy questions to build karma.

What on earth is this page, project, and thread?

New comment by butterlesstoast in "I built GitHub Store to 12,500 stars in 6 months – I started at 16"

butterlesstoast — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:05:07 +0000

Glad - I - wasn’t the only one that saw - AI article - giveaways…

GitHub stars have been proven to be easily purchasable.

Happy to hear the progress and that should be celebrated without the focus on stars.

New comment by butterlesstoast in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

butterlesstoast — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:04:03 +0000

Lol love all the responses

New comment by butterlesstoast in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

butterlesstoast — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:02:47 +0000

It feels very much written by a team of humans. Here's to hoping I'm not wrong.

New comment by butterlesstoast in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

butterlesstoast — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:01:49 +0000

I respected the "No Pure Managers" part. That's similar to what happened at our org.

The question remains, if there are no pure managers, then is this CSM / Sales shipping production code? If yes, then it's indeed scary...

> No pure managers: Every leader at Coinbase must also be a strong and active individual contributor. Managers should be like player-coaches, getting their hands dirty alongside their teams.

New comment by butterlesstoast in "I am worried about Bun"

butterlesstoast — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:19:44 +0000

>Even though I personally am moving some projects away from Bun, don't take my advice as gospel.

Always appreciated nuance.

New comment by butterlesstoast in "Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym"

butterlesstoast — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:58:07 +0000

I really appreciate this share. It's very honest.

Makes me think that anything taken too far can be a bad thing. Pity in its raw form is an incredibly empathetic side of our human nature and can be extraordinary.

However, if pity is made a reward system for the people receiving the empathy, it can be used manipulatively. I believe CS Lewis called it "a passion for pity" (I could be wrong).

New comment by butterlesstoast in "Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym"

butterlesstoast — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:52:40 +0000

I can't stop thinking about the amount of people they engaged with simply never to be seen again. Are gym membership commitments a lot less serious than I remember these days?

New comment by butterlesstoast in "The end of "Just ask Sarah""

butterlesstoast — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:28:25 +0000

This article fails to mention Sarah burned out and is now a barista.

New comment by butterlesstoast in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

butterlesstoast — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:26:33 +0000

I appreciate the data driven approach. The article is spot on, it's really hard to distinguish all the discourse with the reality. Things most people grew up with in the 70s had years of propaganda convincing the public they were a net positive to society.

Sidebar, I'm very curious to see where AI goes. Definitely not on the hype train. More curious than anything. This article was a breath of fresh air.

New comment by butterlesstoast in "Your website is not for you"

butterlesstoast — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:34:45 +0000

I’ve noticed a lot of business models intentionally try to funnel you through their sales pipeline and only expose the price after “getting to know you”.

Which is slang for “getting a chance to plead their case for why it’s going to be so bloody expensive”.

New comment by butterlesstoast in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

butterlesstoast — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:24:14 +0000

GitHub didn't have a CTO until 2017. Vlad Federov only started in 2024.

New comment by butterlesstoast in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

butterlesstoast — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:22:19 +0000

I can't help but think it's a bit more complicated than that.

GitHub back in the day was a healthy version of "Move fast and break things". I wonder what's different.