Hacker News: jherdman

New comment by jherdman in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

jherdman — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:11:16 +0000

Many thanks for sharing this. I wasn't aware it existed.

New comment by jherdman in "Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%"

jherdman — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:39:23 +0000

Is this sort of setup tenable on a consumer MBP or similar?

New comment by jherdman in "Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?"

jherdman — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:20:57 +0000

For less than $100!? Do tell, my friend.

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

jherdman — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:56:50 +0000

Merry Christmas, friends. And a special cheers to everyone that makes this community possible. It’s one of the last bastions of all that is good about this internet.

New comment by jherdman in "PGlite – Embeddable Postgres"

jherdman — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:02:23 +0000

I'm using this with a Bun project for my testing needs. I spin PGLite at the beginning, throw it all away at the end. It's not as nice as transactionally isolated testing (a la Ruby on Rails, or Elixir), but it's a fine replacement until I have time to replicate it.

New comment by jherdman in "Why we migrated from Python to Node.js"

jherdman — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:36:51 +0000

I’m curious about your choice of Kysely. I’ve really only used Drizzle. It’s fine but it has some very rough edges around Bun and SQLite.

New comment by jherdman in "Why we migrated from Python to Node.js"

jherdman — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:14:24 +0000

Have you tried Elysia (https://elysiajs.com/)? Admittedly I'm not using it at scale, but it's quite pleasant.

New comment by jherdman in "Disable AI in Firefox"

jherdman — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:29:26 +0000

I'm curious to know what the AI does when it encounters sheet music. Does it do anything intelligible?

New comment by jherdman in "Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js"

jherdman — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:38:56 +0000

> But I still needed background jobs, real-time updates, and two-way communication that just works. Those things are possible in Rails and Laravel, but they take a bit more effort to set up.

I'm pretty sure this isn't true at all with Rails. Out of the box you get Solid Queue (jobs), and Solid Cable (real time messaging).

New comment by jherdman in "I'm leaving Ruby Central"

jherdman — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:51:54 +0000

You need only skim his blog to see why. He’s increasingly hostile to minorities of all sorts.

Beyond that, Mike (author of Sidekiq) is more than welcome to withdrawal his funding as he wishes. That’s how this works.

New comment by jherdman in "Behind the scenes of Bun Install"

jherdman — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:35:46 +0000

Storybook is another for me.

New comment by jherdman in "Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code"

jherdman — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:20:17 +0000

This was fun!

New comment by jherdman in "Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network"

jherdman — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:08:13 +0000

If you go to "Settings > Notifications > Desktop meeting detections notifications" you can turn this feature off. I haven't verified if the mic and traffic sniffing is correspondingly turned off though.

New comment by jherdman in "Was Houdini a Spy? (2021)"

jherdman — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 02:05:04 +0000

I just finished this too! It really brought back my childhood fascination with the man.

New comment by jherdman in "RubyUI (Former PhlexUI): Ruby Gem for RubyUI Components"

jherdman — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:44:03 +0000

Have you had much luck with slots? I have a project using View Components that leverages slots. I've tried migrating to Phlex, but the lack of explicit slot support has been a bit frustrating.

New comment by jherdman in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

jherdman — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:50:18 +0000

I'd be curious to hear about the politics and behinds the scenes of this project. How did you get buy-in? What were some of the sticking points in getting this project off of the ground? When you mention that many other languages were used to spike the new compiler, were there interesting learnings?

New comment by jherdman in "You might not need Redis"

jherdman — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 18:55:29 +0000

I just wanted to take a moment to highlight both GoodJob and Solid Queue. They're excellent choices, and any RoR folks reading these comments should give them a fair shake.

New comment by jherdman in "The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome"

jherdman — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:31:30 +0000

Is this really true? Something that can be supported by clear evidence? I’ve seen this trotted out many times, but it seems like there are interesting Apache projects:

https://airflow.apache.org/

https://iceberg.apache.org/

https://kafka.apache.org/

https://superset.apache.org/

New comment by jherdman in "Show HN: Cot: a Rust web framework for lazy developers"

jherdman — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:27:01 +0000

Composability is the often cited benefit. As an example, I can do the following in Active Record (Ruby):

  class Account < ApplicationRecord
    scope :active, -> { where.not(active_at: nil) }

    belongs_to :user
  end

  class User < ApplicationRecord
    scope :born_before, ->(born_on) { where(birthdate: born_on) }
  end

  active_users_with_birthdays_today = Account.active.joins(:user).merge(User.born_before(Date.today))

Contrived, of course, but it's not hard to see how you can use these sorts of things to build up record sorting, filtering, etc. Doing this by hand wouldn't be very fun.

New comment by jherdman in "Vim Roadmap 2025"

jherdman — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:21:30 +0000

Can we rename this post to indicate that it’s about Zed?