Hacker News: davidcelis

New comment by davidcelis in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

davidcelis — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:07:40 +0000

I know it's probably automatic because of the similar titles, but hitting the bottom of the layoff announcement only to be recommended that article about hiring 1,111 interns in 2026 is a reaaal bad look

New comment by davidcelis in "Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline"

davidcelis — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:29:02 +0000

Yeah, this article has all the telltale signs of being AI generated.

New comment by davidcelis in "Gem.coop"

davidcelis — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:40:41 +0000

My mistake, I completely misread your comment and thought you were _only_ talking about `rv` as opposed to both `uv` and `rv`!

New comment by davidcelis in "Gem.coop"

davidcelis — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:17:27 +0000

By "Astral" do you mean "Spinel"? Also, what paid services? So far the only paid services they've mentioned is retainer services that essentially amount to priority customer support. The tools themselves are only ever described as free

EDIT: Misread the comment and thought it was only about `rv`, not both `uv` and `rv`

New comment by davidcelis in "Gem.coop"

davidcelis — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:13:35 +0000

What makes you think they _haven't_ tried to work things out with Ruby Central? As per a separate article[1], this seems to be a last resort:

> “Since Ruby Central has informed us they will never allow us to continue working on the projects they now claim they own, that we successfully maintained and operated for the last ten years, the former RubyGems team is launching gem.coop today.”

[1]: https://socket.dev/blog/gem-cooperative-emerges-as-a-communi...

New comment by davidcelis in "Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiasco"

davidcelis — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 17:58:46 +0000

Some additional context is that Justin Searls is close friends with people who are or have been on Rails Core and/or at Shopify. I've long been a fan of Justin's work, and I've spent time with him at conferences so I can attest to him being a nice person in my experience… But, given the alleged parties at play here, it's hard to take this piece as unbiased when it lacks that disclosure

New comment by davidcelis in "Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up"

davidcelis — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 22:50:46 +0000

Someone vibe coded a PR on my team where there were hundreds of lines doing complex validation of an uploaded CSV file (which we only expected to have two columns) instead of just relying on Ruby's built-in CSV library (i.e. `CSV.parse` would have done everything the AI produced)

Shhp: Hitpoints for Your Shell

davidcelis — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 23:51:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/the80srobot/shhp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44740906

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by davidcelis in "Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto"

davidcelis — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:14:14 +0000

Craft coffee is a luxury item that isn't part of Japanese culture in the same way that it is in the west. In the early morning, when you're a salaryman trying to get to work as fast as possible, you get coffee from a vending machine or convenience store. Craft coffee is something to enjoy leisurely, which is why most specialty coffee shops don't open until much later than we're used to

DropNotch – Turns the MacBook notch into a drop zone

davidcelis — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:17:18 +0000

Article URL: https://junebytes.com/dropnotch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567659

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by davidcelis in "We chose NanoIDs for PlanetScale’s API"

davidcelis — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:30:13 +0000

The post covers this:

> Our API is a Ruby on Rails application. For all public-facing models, we have added a `public_id` column to our database. We still use standard auto-incrementing BigInts for our primary key. The `public_id` is only used as an external identifier.

Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot

davidcelis — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:45:00 +0000

Article URL: https://areyoutheasshole.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31099655

Points: 366

# Comments: 194

New comment by davidcelis in "Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe"

davidcelis — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:48:33 +0000

Their office has an entire team dedicated to physical security. If you're walking around by yourself and you don't have an employee badge, they find you pretty quick.

The New LaunchDarkly

davidcelis — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 17:50:17 +0000

Article URL: https://launchdarkly.com/blog/im-with-the-brand/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28542175

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by davidcelis in "HashiCorp Terraform and Community Contributions"

davidcelis — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 05:25:16 +0000

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28425849

HashiCorp Terraform and Community Contributions

davidcelis — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 05:24:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-community-contributions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453372

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Clubhouse (the project management tool) is changing their name to Shortcut

davidcelis — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:31:58 +0000

Article URL: https://clubhouse.io/blog/clubhouse-changing-our-name-to-shortcut/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28000390

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by davidcelis in "Based Cooking"

davidcelis — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:14:47 +0000

> In fact when most recipes specify a volumetric measurement of salt they mean table salt

That’s really not true. Most food writers would tell you that the standard is kosher salt, and many would specify diamond kosher

New comment by davidcelis in "A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier"

davidcelis — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 19:52:44 +0000

> McDonald's offers a 401k plan with up to 7% match. Even if you took the 10% early withdrawal penalty this is money in your pocket.

This woman is literally living paycheck to paycheck, and your suggestion is to... put money into a 401k? That simply isn't an option for people living in poverty like this.

> Gain knowledge, skills, and have a good work ethic and it is not that hard to get ahead in America.

This is a really out-of-touch perspective. One's ability to gain knowledge and skills is determined by the amount of free time they have when not working, and when you're only earning $9.50/hr, you have to spend a _lot_ of your time just earning enough to scrape by. It _is_ hard to get ahead in America when you're poor. Lifting oneself out of poverty is not easy to do here (or anywhere). If it were, we wouldn't have nearly 30% of our country's inhabitants living in or very near to poverty levels.

New comment by davidcelis in "Update from Chef"

davidcelis — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:08:04 +0000

They removed his name from everywhere _except_ the license notices. Which is kinda worse.