Hacker News: sebiw

New comment by sebiw in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

sebiw — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:44:05 +0000

Defense in depth is a thing but I agree that relying on it is not a good idea.

Twttr.eu – Reincarnation of the 2006 Twitter Experience

sebiw — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:25:22 +0000

Article URL: https://twttr.eu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47477837

Points: 5

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New comment by sebiw in "DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation"

sebiw — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:01:05 +0000

> It's not that much work to trust my root certificate on each device

Sure, but is trusting your homebrewed CA on all your devices for essentially everything really a good idea?

When your homebrewed CA somehow gets compromised, all your devices are effectively compromised and not only for local connections, but everything that uses PKIX.

New comment by sebiw in "An Update on Heroku"

sebiw — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:01:22 +0000

Dogfooding their future products!

New comment by sebiw in "An Update on Heroku"

sebiw — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:00:07 +0000

Yup, their Git Push Deployment was really a killer concept and a huge gateway for people just writing good apps not needing to care about infra and still being able to get a production-ready setup.

New comment by sebiw in "An Update on Heroku"

sebiw — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:58:18 +0000

Sustaining as in sustaining their shareholders.

New comment by sebiw in "An Update on Heroku"

sebiw — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:55:34 +0000

Huh, so that's what they mean when using the word "we". "We" is not Heroku, it's Salesforce.

New comment by sebiw in "An Update on Heroku"

sebiw — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:51:06 +0000

> helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI in a secure and trusted way

> Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers

Seems contradictory or I just don't understand how they do product management.

My opinion: Heroku had its time but then stagnated heavily in keeping up with what was going on around it. With the rise of Container as a Service platforms there now were a multitude of more cost-efficient and flexible alternatives which were comparable to the service Heroku offered.

Apple iOS 27 to Be No-Frills 'Snow Leopard' Update, Other Than New AI

sebiw — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 13:57:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-23/apple-ios-27-snow-leopard-like-quality-focus-ai-features-tim-cook-retirement-mibq7jv8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46023599

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by sebiw in "Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler"

sebiw — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:06:02 +0000

Thanks for sharing. RIP Jim, I miss him being part of the community.

New comment by sebiw in "Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler"

sebiw — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:59:02 +0000

I don't like talking about a heterogeneous group of people in a generally negative way. I try to stick to the people I perceive as sharing the same values that are important to me. And there are many such people in the Ruby community.

New comment by sebiw in "Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler"

sebiw — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:21:30 +0000

I think this is the right move. Thank you to Ruby Core and Matz for stepping up and providing stability to the language and community as a whole.

Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler

sebiw — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:15:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/10/17/rubygems-repository-transition/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615863

Points: 667

# Comments: 378

New comment by sebiw in "Reworking Memory Management in CRuby"

sebiw — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:00:14 +0000

"Wow" as in "why doesn't Ruby have that already" or as in "parallelism will be great"? :-)

Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026

sebiw — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:36:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/press-and-published/notices-and-press-releases/press-releases/2025/offline-card-payments-should-be-possible-no-later-than-1-july-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45467500

Points: 503

# Comments: 559

New comment by sebiw in "Indie Game Dedicates In-Game Location to Late Modding Community Member"

sebiw — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:31:54 +0000

In the current stream of rather disturbing world news and examples for bad applications of capitalism, I just wanted to point to this litte bit of niceness from the indie game development community:

> - Added new map location: Stendo's Firearms Emporium. [...] This is intended as a memorial to Stendo_Clip who was the founding author of the Vanilla Firearms Expansion mod - following conversation with, and permission from, family members.

Indie Game Dedicates In-Game Location to Late Modding Community Member

sebiw — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:31:54 +0000

Article URL: https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/81787-build-4250-unstable-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43334950

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Dealing with (Hypothetical) Sham Packages

sebiw — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:05:01 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.rubygems.org/2025/02/20/dealing-with-sham-packages.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43122300

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by sebiw in "Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS"

sebiw — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:06:45 +0000

My two cents having a respectable amount of infrastructure ops experience: Use Caddy to get going quickly and to get a solid setup with minimal effort. Use Nginx if you know what you're doing and want full and deep control over the web server / proxy layer of your stack.

LEDs from Dubai: The Royal Lights You Can't Buy (2021)

sebiw — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 22:46:48 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2021/01/17/leds-from-dubai-the-royal-lights-you-cant-buy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42825708

Points: 3

# Comments: 0