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New comment by lackoftactics in "What About Rails?"

lackoftactics — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:55:11 +0000

You're fucking rails programmer. You're the best of of the best. This is goddman Top Gun I'm looking at here -- DHH, Rails World 2026 opening keynote, moments before calling everyone loser

New comment by lackoftactics in "Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust"

lackoftactics — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:43:59 +0000

I really like the direction Topcoat is going in as a Rails developer. Although it is just a bit itchy to my eyes, it is not acid-level, though.

The things that look great are LiveView and getting rid of boilerplate for client-side reactivity

New comment by lackoftactics in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

lackoftactics — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:03:02 +0000

When I started as rails dev in 2013, it was really the top solution for producing MVP fast. Now, I don’t think that’s the case and most of the incentives are gone if we are no longer writing code by hand

New comment by lackoftactics in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

lackoftactics — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:58:42 +0000

also worth noting that hotwire is dead according to DHH in this talk. The rendering html server side is old way now

New comment by lackoftactics in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

lackoftactics — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:09:48 +0000

that's a killer name

New comment by lackoftactics in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

lackoftactics — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:55:20 +0000

it's funeral of Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails Lost Its Superpower

lackoftactics — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:01:50 +0000

Article URL: https://mroczek.dev/articles/ruby-on-rails-lost-its-superpower/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49702179

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by lackoftactics in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

lackoftactics — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:51:05 +0000

I don't know if it counts as a project, but I just posted my first YouTube video yesterday after spending 100 hours learning about cameras, audio, and video editing in Final Cut Pro. I just want to share my thoughts on programming and tech in general, and doing that on a blog has become much harder nowadays because trust in written content has been lost.

https://www.youtube.com/@itspshemektech

The Rise and Fall of Ruby on Rails [video]

lackoftactics — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:04:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-azghwx0RWc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683548

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by lackoftactics in "Logo Programming"

lackoftactics — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:55:53 +0000

tbh, sounds like a made-up term coined by someone who could go on and on

New comment by lackoftactics in "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"

lackoftactics — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:50:44 +0000

Yep, HN loves/loved Ruby :)

New comment by lackoftactics in "Logo Programming Language"

lackoftactics — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:04:38 +0000

same problem, it wasn't exaclty the best experience with first programming language

New comment by lackoftactics in "Logo Programming"

lackoftactics — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:13:00 +0000

I didn't win logo programming competition in polish equivalent of 7th grade and I am still salty about it

New comment by lackoftactics in "RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree"

lackoftactics — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:33:17 +0000

I wrote article about it couple months ago that I didn't believe it works. Nice to see numbers now

https://mroczek.dev/articles/the-token-compression-illusion-...

New comment by lackoftactics in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

lackoftactics — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:12:21 +0000

the tricky part about React Native is that you almost always need to use it with expo.

I developed React native app for ios as side project and took breaks often and came back to have to do big updates with expo to make it work again. Maybe there is smoother process, but this was annoying

New comment by lackoftactics in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

lackoftactics — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:26:30 +0000

I believe this will be overall trend in industry. Dropping React Native and Flutter for native

New comment by lackoftactics in "One decision put Ruby into a downward spiral. It's not too late to fix it"

lackoftactics — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:56:06 +0000

there are more issues currently than ViewComponent and I am planning to do video essay (not very technical one) on future of rails.

Overall, interesting read, although very heavy on bullet points

New comment by lackoftactics in "How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy"

lackoftactics — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:45:07 +0000

are we really moving the goalpost after solving Millenium Prize Problem? Six years ago that would be something, but today let's move the goalpost

New comment by lackoftactics in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

lackoftactics — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:21:17 +0000

hmm, maybe not sentiments, running commands can produce binary results to reinforce, but that's also speculation

New comment by lackoftactics in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

lackoftactics — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:45:53 +0000

do you even needs thumbs up? I've been long suspecting that code models get better because they use our data and our results from feedback, status codes, green tests for reinforcement learning