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New comment by glennericksen in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

glennericksen — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:24:10 +0000

I like this rule of thumb: Spend more effort producing the work than it takes for someone else to consume it.

New comment by glennericksen in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

glennericksen — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:20:46 +0000

You can switch to the mentioned "delayed" mode if you're using pnpm. A few days ago, pnpm 10.16 introduced a minimumReleaseAge setting that delays the installation of newly released dependencies by a configurable amount of time.

https://pnpm.io/blog/releases/10.16

New comment by glennericksen in "How to create value objects in Ruby – the idiomatic way"

glennericksen — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 16:27:36 +0000

I don't usually think of Data when grouping values together in Ruby. Seems like I should. Lucian puts forth a good explainer of when and why they are helpful.

To summarize, Data became available a few years ago in Ruby 3.2. You can create value objects by subclassing the Data class with Data.define. Data objects are immutable, comparable and easily greppable. They are constrained in ways Struct, Hash and Class are not. The shorthand removes boilerplate and the constraints create the utility.

Measure = Data.define(:amount, :unit) weight = Measure.new(amount: 50, unit: 'kg')

New comment by glennericksen in "Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly"

glennericksen — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 01:30:45 +0000

"Business moves at the speed of trust."

This is a good post exemplifying this axiom. It is one thing for a leader to be trustworthy. It's a different challenge to cultivate trust within an organization in the midst of rapid change. Enjoyed reading this account of Anthropic's adventures scaling trust.

New comment by glennericksen in "My (Neo)Vim workflow"

glennericksen — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 20:41:54 +0000

+1 to Typecraft for reworking your Neovim setup. As a longtime Vim user, I adopted Neovim with my Vim .vimrc in order to use Copilot. With Typecrafts guidance, I switched to Lua config, and really happy with where I ended up. Haven’t touched VSCode in months.

New comment by glennericksen in "Slack AI Training with Customer Data"

glennericksen — Fri, 17 May 2024 01:14:07 +0000

"Will not" allows the existence of a bridge but it's not on your route and you say you're not going to go over it. "Cannot" is the absence of a bridge or the ability to cross it.

HAProxy Coding Style

glennericksen — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 16:00:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.haproxy.org/coding-style.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043366

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by glennericksen in "My time with Rails is up (2016)"

glennericksen — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 14:21:55 +0000

Rapid ecosystem churn is my gripe with Javascript. I've generally found Rails and popular Ruby gems to be very durable over time.

New comment by glennericksen in "Turn your backyard into a biodiversity hotspot"

glennericksen — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 18:10:34 +0000

There's was a story in Smithsonian magazine a few years ago (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/meet-ecologist...) about an ecologist who more or less did what this article proposes, increasing the biodiversity in his backyard. He called his project a "Homegrown National Park".

Tallamy's Suggestions:

1. Shrink your lawn (replace grass with plants that create habitat)

2. Remove invasive plants (native plants support more animal biodiversity)

3. Create no-mow zones around trees (accommodates insect life cycle)

4. Equip outdoor lights with motion sensors (lights can disturb animal behavior)

New comment by glennericksen in "So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill)"

glennericksen — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 21:41:11 +0000

A long post, but the final paragraphs sum up both the problem and the ask:

"This was the last attempt to keep core-js as a free open-source project with a proper quality and functionality level. It was the last attempt to convey that there are real people on the other side of open-source with families to feed and problems to solve.

If you or your company use core-js in one way or another and are interested in the quality of your supply chain, support the project."

New comment by glennericksen in "The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space"

glennericksen — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 19:44:11 +0000

“What’s so beautiful about creating products is that saying it in a poetic way, if you have that passion it naturally starts waves and those waves connect people. Then you don’t know where it’s going to end up, anything can happen, but if you don’t do anything, if you don’t write that text, if you don’t draw that picture or design that object, you can’t expect anything to happen. You need to start that chain reaction in life.” - Jesper Kouthoofd, founder of Teenage Engineering

The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space

glennericksen — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 19:41:06 +0000

Article URL: https://scandinavianmind.com/feature/human-touch-interview-jesper-kouthoofd-teenage-engineering

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34458626

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by glennericksen in "Australian agronomist Tony Rinaudo is turning African deserts into forests"

glennericksen — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 21:11:25 +0000

I was curious enough to look at this story a bit more. Some related, interesting tidbits: In 2004, Niger estimated 50% of farmland was using the farmer managed natural regeneration framework (FMNR) described in the article, essentially reforestation through growing new trees from sprouts on old tree stumps [1]. An update in 2022 says over 200 million trees have been added via FMNR [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer-managed_natural_regener... [2] https://theworld.org/media/2022-04-29/niger-s-unexpected-suc...

How individual contributors get stuck (2017)

glennericksen — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:53:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.elidedbranches.com/2017/01/how-do-individual-contributors-get.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31907688

Points: 219

# Comments: 90

Heroku April 2022 Incident Review

glennericksen — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:43:20 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.heroku.com/april-2022-incident-review

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31743100

Points: 118

# Comments: 13

The pandemic has deepened an epidemic of loneliness

glennericksen — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 14:05:34 +0000

Article URL: https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/reports/loneliness-in-america

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29472545

Points: 153

# Comments: 239

Car Insurer Lobbies to Pin Pricing on Tracking Driver Skills

glennericksen — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 22:42:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/allstate-wants-to-track-your-driving-to-determine-your-car-insurance-rate-11633685400

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28814012

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by glennericksen in "A Pattern Language (1977) [pdf]"

glennericksen — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 19:53:41 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. The lecture format helps draw out some of the implications of the Alexander's work. For example, "a healthy mind in a healthy body–in a healthy environment", connecting the value of shaping the environment well to human benefit.

He also simplifies an explanation of why algorithmic design vs "all at once" may be preferable: an algorithm offers opportunities for discovery beyond intuition and memory. In other words, trust the process.

He said “I own all your debt” and I'm like “why did you do that?”

glennericksen — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:58:10 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/martygberg/status/1383995869280694277

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26895362

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by glennericksen in "Things Unexpectedly Named After People"

glennericksen — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:03:41 +0000

Bluetooth, a union of different communication protocols, after King Harold Bluetooth, 10th century uniter of Danish tribes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Name