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New comment by the_lonely_time in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

the_lonely_time — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:12:42 +0000

Are you just hanging around California startups? I work in big consulting and am inside hundreds of the largest companies in the US, everyone of which is fully Microsoft and only ever seen PowerPoint. I’m in dozens of teams meetings a week across as many organizations and have been in 2 Google meets meeting in the last decade, both of which were California fintech startups.

New comment by the_lonely_time in "Agents that run while I sleep"

the_lonely_time — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:59:19 +0000

Where are my backbone apps? In the trash? Me ember apps? Next to them. My create-react-apps? On top of those. My Next apps? Being trashed as we speak. My rails apps? Online and making money every year with minimal upgrade time. What the hell was I thinking.

New comment by the_lonely_time in "Ruby on Rails Audit Complete"

the_lonely_time — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:43:28 +0000

I spent more of my life that I would like to admit learning and writing Rust. I still build all of my web applications in almost pure Ruby these days. Speed of thought to action is simply unparalleled and it turns out in most situations that was the most important factor.

New comment by the_lonely_time in "Gemini figured out my nephew’s name"

the_lonely_time — Thu, 22 May 2025 02:42:03 +0000

Full ham rod. Wild name.

New comment by the_lonely_time in "Show HN: 10 teams are racing to build a pivotal tracker replacement"

the_lonely_time — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:49:37 +0000

cap production deploy still reigns king in some dark corners of the world. Also Hotwire is awesome if you havnt had a chance to check it out.

New comment by the_lonely_time in "I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days"

the_lonely_time — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:41:57 +0000

Can’t remember account login so created a new account to respond.

I recently used Claude with something along the lines of “Ruby on rails 8, Hotwire, stimulus, turbo, show me how to do client side validations that don’t require a page refresh”

I am new to prompt engineering so feel free to critique. Anyway, it generated a stimulus controller called validations_controller.js and then proceeded to print out all of the remaining connected files but in all of them it referred to the string “validation” not “validations”. The solution it provided worked great and did exactly what I wanted to (though I expected a turbo frame based solution not a stimulus solution, but whatever it did what I asked it to do) with the exception of having to change all of the places where it put the string “validation” where it needed to put “validations” to match the name it used in the provided stimulus controller.