Hacker News: mperham

New comment by mperham in "An update on GitHub availability"

mperham — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:18:54 +0000

> we offer first-party hosting for free forever.

You should probably stop promising this.

Configuration flags are where software goes to rot

mperham — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:31:53 +0000

Article URL: https://00f.net/2026/04/11/config-flags/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754523

Points: 2

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New comment by mperham in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

mperham — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:18:16 +0000

SQLite? Luxury! My servers use CSV files for the database. (It’s actually true)

New comment by mperham in "Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026"

mperham — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:11:38 +0000

Isn't it better to build a decentralized grid out of standard parts than a few highly complex nuclear reactors? To me, that makes the system more resilient and easier to maintain. Nuclear seems like a worse choice long-term than wind/solar/batteries. Balcony solar could get us nuclear reactor levels of power per year once broadly legalized.

New comment by mperham in "DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding"

mperham — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:15:31 +0000

Because DO is an American company.

New comment by mperham in "RubyGems Fracture Incident Report"

mperham — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:22:23 +0000

> that's the sentiment anyone who has been around in the community long enough and dealt with Andre has about him.

I've known him personally for years and find him perfectly fine as a person. The Rubygems maintainers worked with him for the past decade without issue. Until you cite actual issues, not vague "concerns", you're just spreading FUD and innuendo.

New comment by mperham in "RubyGems Fracture Incident Report"

mperham — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:17:19 +0000

I don't know the details of Shopify funding. I donated $250,000 in 2024 and withdrew a planned $250,000 donation in 2025, as has been widely publicized.

New comment by mperham in "RubyGems Fracture Incident Report"

mperham — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:57:36 +0000

> Do you have any idea how expensive it is to keep the infrastructure running?

Yes, I do. All hardware and bandwidth are donated by Fastly and AWS so it costs RC nothing. Their expenses were $20,000/mo for 24/7 ops coverage: $2000/mo for 6 people and $8000/mo for service maintenance (e.g. db and software upgrades). So $240,000/yr, not "millions".

New comment by mperham in "DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding"

mperham — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:13:30 +0000

What's the DigitalOcean of Europe, where I can get API-based provisioning for VPSes?

New comment by mperham in "Honda is killing its EVs"

mperham — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:40:26 +0000

> My Tesla is still on FSD from 2023 because the newer versions are terrible judging from the comments on the Tesla forums.

I've had FSD since 2020; the latest version is noticeably better than 2020. I wouldn't put too much stock in forums which tend to skew negative.

New comment by mperham in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

mperham — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:00:52 +0000

What age is appropriate for the Safari app? What age is appropriate for PlannedParenthood.com? Reddit.com?

A movie is a distinct piece of content. A website and an app can be a container for lots of different content.

New comment by mperham in "New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates"

mperham — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:19:05 +0000

Don't strawman other people's comments.

New comment by mperham in "Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal"

mperham — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:42:04 +0000

HIS crime is legal. Yours is still illegal unless you pay tribute, e.g. binance.

New comment by mperham in "The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster"

mperham — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:36:40 +0000

Yes, most people don’t drive 200 mi/day. It’s really ok.

New comment by mperham in "Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate"

mperham — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:22:03 +0000

The fossil fuel industry has stolen the bulk of Cuba’s income. Need to switch to solar and batteries to onshore your energy production. China could help here and get a big diplomatic win if they were to give Cuba subsidized access to their clean energy assets.

New comment by mperham in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

mperham — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:45:36 +0000

It was an off-the-cuff comment and probably not worded ideally but the intent was to discuss how Oban is branching off into a new direction for their business based on language-specific products while I went a different direction with Faktory. Since I came to the exact same fork in the road in 2017, I thought it was relevant and an interesting topic on evolving software products.

New comment by mperham in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

mperham — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:41:30 +0000

Resque was the main inspiration, Sidekiq still provides compatibility with some of its APIs to this day.

https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/blob/ba8b8fc8d81ac8f57a55...

New comment by mperham in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

mperham — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:26:45 +0000

By “based on” I don’t mean a shared codebase or features but rather Parker and I exchanged emails a decade ago to discuss business models and open source funding. He initially copied my Sidekiq OSS + Sidekiq Pro business model, with my blessing.

New comment by mperham in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

mperham — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:44:50 +0000

I wrote Sidekiq, which Oban is based on. Congratulations to Shannon and Parker on shipping this!

I had to make this same decision years ago: do I focus on Ruby or do I bring Sidekiq to other languages? What I realized is that I couldn't be an expert in every language, Sidekiq.js, Sidekiq.py, etc. I decided to go a different direction and built Faktory[0] instead, which flips the architecture and provides a central server which knows how to implement the queue lifecycle internally. The language-specific clients become much simpler and can be maintained by the open source community for each language, e.g. faktory-rs[1]. The drawback is that Faktory is not focused on any one community and it's hard for me to provide idiomatic examples in a given language.

It's a different direction but by focusing on a single community, you may have better outcomes, time will tell!

[0]: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory [1]: https://github.com/jonhoo/faktory-rs

New comment by mperham in "Show HN: New 3D Mapping website - Create heli orbits and "playable" map tours."

mperham — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:26:23 +0000

Proud of my brother who built this!