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Adam Fortuna

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Full-stack product developer (Rails/React) in Salt Lake City, UT. I love enlivening experiences, visualizing data, and making playful websites. 📚 Founder @hardcover.app 🎧 Developer @libro.fm ✍️ Blogger @ https://adamfortuna.com

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Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · Nov 23

My interests, for the real-people-algorithm. 👋

🏔️ Hiking
📚 Books
🟰 Equality
🧙‍♂️ Fantasy
👨‍💻 Web dev
✍️ Blogging
🎲 Board games
🏋️ Olympic lifting
🧘 Quantified self
👾 Science fiction
🧑‍🎨 Interior design
🌱 Personal growth
🦵 ACL tear recovery
🇯🇵 Learning Japanese
📊 Data visualizations
💸 Index fund investing

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Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · 12h

Background:

Upgraded the DB so it was faster → API bottleneck changed to TypeSense calls (search)

TypeSense server spiked to 100% CPU to keep up → Added more resources

Now: Hardcover main site gets 5 search req/sec through the API 😅 Will for sure need to rearchitect this.

Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · 13h

Ohh that sounds like a fun role, that’s right in line with what I’ve seen you exploring! Congrats!

Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · 22h

That moment when you you successfully scale an app from 5 processes to 50, only to have the next server in line completely fail under the new load. 😅

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Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · 8d

Haha that sounds very familiar. Back in the day of early eggdrop bots and channels having websites.

One of my first sites was for an IRC channel too! It used frames, had a flash navigation in that frame, and sounds on hover. 🙈

Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · 9d

In high school I was an Op on a big IRC channel on EFNet ( #animeheaven you’d never guess but I was/am a huge nerd).

One day I opd someone who was pretending to be someone else (down to their DNS).

They took over the channel & it took weeks to get it back. This Ruby drama reminds me of it (x1000).

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Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · 9d

This is how you know Bluesky will make it.

Me holding up the book Bluesky for dummies

Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · 9d

Ohh, I probably won’t, but someone else from Libro.fm will be. I volunteered for this one because the usual rep is on sabbatical and I thought it’d be fun. 😂

Aside from the setup bumps, it’s been a lot of fun! Helps that most people already know about us, so I don’t have to be a salesman.

Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · 10d

Due to a shipping error, we didn’t have anything delivered for the booth. 😭 Fortunately some awesome coworkers got signage printed, and I picked up some books from publishers that are available as audiobooks.

Having nothing felt like that dream where you show up to school naked. 🫣

Me sitting in front of a booth with a handful of books

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Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · 10d

Heading to Spokane, WA to run the Libro.fm booth at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Fall Tradeshow.

Somehow this is the first time I’ve ever managed a booth at a con. 😳 Any advice?

Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores

Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

Libro.fm

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Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · 10d

No 😭 I’ve been trying to get better at that though. My (current) solution has been to work alternating days. However there always seems to be something that comes up on the days I’m not working. 😅

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Jamie Gaskins @jgaskins.lol · 12d

Screenshot from the movie "National Treasure". Nicolas Cage's character says "I'm gonna steal the RubyGems GitHub organization."

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André Arko @indirect.io · 13d

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community

andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community

I’ve spent 15 years of my life working on Bundler. When I introduce myself, people say “oh, the Bundler guy?”, and I am forced to agree. I didn’t come up with the original idea for Bundler (that was Y...

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 14d

Every day, I pray for a world where everyone is kind and respectful of each other, regardless of gender.

May unreasonable attacks against transgender people end🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

May today be filled with happiness and love for you all🤍

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Joel Drapper 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @joel.drapper.me · 15d

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover

Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.

joel.drapper.me

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Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · 15d

I'm rewatching Star Trek DS9, and currently on S01E20. This episode from 1993 is as relevant today:

Keiko O'Brien: I'm not teaching any philosophy. What I'm trying to teach is pure science.
Major Kira: Some might say pure science, taught without a spiritual context, *is* a philosophy, Mrs. O'Brien.

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Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · 16d

Migrated Hardcover from Vercel to Google Cloud run in late 2024, and it cut our hosting bill in half.

Migrated from Next.js to Rails on Digital Ocean and it halved the costs again - and they haven’t grown since.

Very happy to out of the Next.js ecosystem.

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Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · 19d

Ohh, I love a good flow chart.

Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · 21d

I've been reading (listening) to Dungeon Crawler Carl for the last 5 months - finally catching up and finishing book 7. Absolutely loved the series so far, and have never laughed out loud in public this much.

I can already tell the book hangover from this one is going to take a little time. 😂

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Code and the Coding Coders who Code it @codingcoders.bsky.social · 22d

🎙️ New Episode of Code and the Coding Coders who Code it! Episode 58 with @tenderlove.dev

podcast.drbragg.dev/episodes/epi...

#ruby #Rails #code #coding #coders #podcast #erb #ractors #concurrency

Episode 58 - Aaron Patterson

We talk about Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and everything in between. From tiny tips to bigger challenges we take on 3 questions a show; What are you working on? What's blocking you? What's something cool...

podcast.drbragg.dev

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 28d

Some big news from us today 🥰 We are officially a Certified B Corp! 🎉
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In 2014, Libro.fm was founded to empower readers to support their indie with audiobooks. As a Social Purpose Corporation and 100% employee-owned company, we’ve always made decisions that benefit this mission. (1/3)

We're now a certified B Corp. Hi! We’re Libro.fm, the audiobook company that shares profits with independent bookshops around the globe.

As a Social Purpose Corporation and employee-owned company, we’ve always made decisions that benefit our mission of supporting independent bookshops—even if they conflict with financial interests.

And now as a Certified B Corp, we’re all the more committed to meeting high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency, to help build a better world for all.

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Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · 29d

Oh hey, I'm now on the Libro.fm team page! 🥳 Really cool that we're also a Certified B Corp now.

libro.fm/story

Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores

Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

Libro.fm

Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · Sep 4

Went to download Hollow Knight: Silksong, and noticed a fun animation on the Nintendo Switch: after you purchase a game, it says how it's a virtual cartridge.

It shows it being inserted into a little switch like you would a game. Nice touch to convey what's happening.

Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · Sep 2

I'm excited that RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use. It's my current editor and makes testing & debugging easy.

It's my 10th editor in ~28 years. 😂

Notepad → Frontpage → Notepad++ → Eclipse → Textmate → VIM → Sublime Text → Atom → VS Code → Ruby Mine

blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2025/09...

RubyMine Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use | The RubyMine Blog

RubyMine, a JetBrains IDE for Ruby and Rails, is now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.

blog.jetbrains.com

Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · Sep 1

Are you a product manager who loves books? I’d love to work with you! Hardcover is looking for 2 PMs to join nights and weekends for equity (as all of us are) to build the best social network and community for readers. 💙📚

Jacob Tender @jacobtender.net · Sep 1

We're looking for a new Product Manager at @hardcover.app! If that sounds like a good fit, we'd love to hear from you!

hardcover.app/pages/roles

Hardcover Open Roles

Join the Hardcover team! Here are open roles for people who want to help.

hardcover.app

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Adam Fortuna @adamfortuna.com · Aug 29

Every developer knows this feeling.

Slack message by me: "Deploying a fix for that and the thing I broke with the first fix."