Hacker News: iraliaf

New comment by iraliaf in "Show HN: A backend agnostic Ruby framework for building reactive desktop apps"

iraliaf — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:26:13 +0000

this is really cool, thanks for contributing to the ruby ecosystem!! Do you have any example sites? I couldn't find a reference on your overview

New comment by iraliaf in "Show HN: MidiMaker.pro – Generate structured MIDI music from text using LLMs"

iraliaf — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:17:50 +0000

would love to speak to you one-on-one about this even if you don't share source, I am really hungry to learn more here

New comment by iraliaf in "Show HN: MidiMaker.pro – Generate structured MIDI music from text using LLMs"

iraliaf — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:17:34 +0000

no worries, this is a super cool idea. I am excited to see how you got past the hurdle of context length needed to make valid MIDI

When I did this in the past, I had to resort to using ABC

New comment by iraliaf in "Whistleblower statement on anomalies at time of DOGE work at NLRB [pdf]"

iraliaf — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:15:52 +0000

still feels like until we get some more grounded evidence, it's speculation:

"Mr. Berulis is coming forward today because of his concern that recent activity by members of the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) have resulted in a significant cybersecurity breach that likely has and continues to expose our government to foreign intelligence and our nation’s adversaries"

operative words here being "likely has"

New comment by iraliaf in "Show HN: MidiMaker.pro – Generate structured MIDI music from text using LLMs"

iraliaf — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:28:35 +0000

heads up the GitHub link 404s

New comment by iraliaf in "An introduction to metaprogramming in Ruby"

iraliaf — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 21:28:27 +0000

why?

New comment by iraliaf in "An unexpected benefit of unit tests"

iraliaf — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:31:57 +0000

I just started working at a 15-person startup where I am on a small team of 5 devs. People typically "don't have time to write tests" and are encouraged to pump out new shiny features every 2 weeks.

I am a new to development but I've noticed that lots of errors pump through code where "No method X defined for nil object" or something like that. I wonder if I could somehow make the case that we'd spend less time reacting to problems and bugs if we spent more time up front writing tests that could give us more than 19% code coverage.

Does anyone have advice for starting this conversation with my boss or during one of our standups? I know I could somehow pitch the value as "less problems later for more time spent now" but is there a more effective way to say it?

New comment by iraliaf in "Show HN: GPTDuck – Ask questions about any GitHub repo"

iraliaf — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 23:02:41 +0000

This is awesome, thanks for sharing! Will you share the source so we can run this locally?

New comment by iraliaf in "Building Games with DragonRuby – A free book on Ruby game dev"

iraliaf — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:43:32 +0000

network, not local multiplayer, expecting something similar to how Unity has Mirror for publishing openGL web games

New comment by iraliaf in "Building Games with DragonRuby – A free book on Ruby game dev"

iraliaf — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:43:01 +0000

Do you have any examples of DragonRuby being used in a multiplayer game like asteroids?

New comment by iraliaf in "Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician"

iraliaf — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 01:34:10 +0000

"Had I continued to make a song here and there, over the weekend, I would have never discovered that making music is boring"

This is unsettling as a SWE trying to break into the music industry as a hobby. You didn't really go into this; is there something in particular that was boring other than the routine?