Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 8d

i'm no expert but if sounds like you need a durable websocket connection to the aggregation point? sounds like durable objects might work? @threepointone.bsky.social

1 1

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 8d

it really does seem to be that way, but I don't want to label everyone on there as fitting into that demographic by default. it seems like a lot of folks stayed because the algorithm was better for surfacing tech news (I still think it is but maybe thats a skill issue on my part).

1

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 8d

seems like he's become more empowered, since a lot of folks on X love him. most of the opposition are over here instead

2

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 8d

bummer. is it socially acceptable to be like this in europe or what? usually folks would be dragged for saying this but everybody is hanging out over here now.

2 1

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 8d

i fell for this and got a mac mini thinking it would be great for local llms, but I think building a PC, or going with a framework or beelink desktop, is a better return on investment. A lot of folks seem to be building their own monster desktops, and it's pretty exciting to see.

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 8d

i'm not a ruby person but is the ruby/rails leadership down with this? it's so strange that someone would be so openly hostile to people of color

2

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 8d

Honestly I don't want to come out and label DHH as anything, but his views are xenophobic and he seems very adamant about propagating them. Does he realize that he's alienating people from the tech community? Is he doing this on purpose? And if so, why?

2 1

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 8d

but then recently he started posting about how folks on bsky were harassing him and I had to check back in over here. Then I saw what was really going on

bsky.app/profile/engi...

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 14d

this is disappointing. I have admired DHH's work on Rails and his general engineering philosophies, but his essay "As I Remember London" is concerning.

Tekin Süleyman @tekin.co.uk · 16d

The Ruby community has a DHH problem
tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

1

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 8d

It's funny, because for a long time i was seeing the recent "resurgence" of DHH's popularity in the tech community. To be honest, I totally forgot why folks were so opposed to him. I just thought he was eccentric and had a lot of good ideas about getting back to simpler engineering practices.

1

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 8d

I've been on X a lot over the last year or so. it's where most of the discourse amongst AI folks seems to happen, and I want to keep up with that.

It's mostly fine; I block a lot of folks that are outright alt-right. But then there's a lot of subtle stuff from folks in tech. And then there's this

DHH proud about returning to naming the default branch in git as "master".

1 1 2

Reposted by Nick Gideo

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 9d

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!

reactormag.com/reading-rain...

Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor

The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.

reactormag.com

130 2.6K 8.5K

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 10d

My 3yo with her apple sauce

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 10d

dj dan

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 10d

Lie Truthman

8

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 13d

Sorry Adam, I should have done one with you too. (Source from the end of the dtrace unconference) @ahl.bsky.social @bcantrill.bsky.social

2

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 13d

input for the curious. model: gpt-5

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 13d

i don't know why i was compelled to request this from chatgpt but here you go @bcantrill.bsky.social . It even got the diet coke in there for accuracy.

2 1 28

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 14d

this is disappointing. I have admired DHH's work on Rails and his general engineering philosophies, but his essay "As I Remember London" is concerning.

Tekin Süleyman @tekin.co.uk · 16d

The Ruby community has a DHH problem
tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

The Ruby community has a DHH problem

The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.

tekin.co.uk

1

Reposted by Nick Gideo

Austin Miller @austinmwav.com · 23d

hey y'all. as some of you may know, I have been unemployed for about 4 months

as the rejections keep coming over and over things start to get... scary

I hate doing this, but if you you wanted to throw a couple dollars my way or share this I would be forever grateful to you

paypal.me/superboinkmp3

Pay Austin Miller using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/superboinkmp3 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

paypal.me

1 70 56

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 25d

this has been me for the last few weeks working on my web DAW for microtonal music. I feel like i'm at a strong point in the design, but I'm so tired of issuing orders that i just want to quietly prune the internal API to get it how i like it. then we can resume light-speed dev

1

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 25d

you can spend a week going on a bender of building out more and more grandiose abstractions, but eventually you get exhausted. Its like you end up speed running from v0 to v3 before the app ever ships.

1 1

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 25d

also, you can get carried away with tossing in every random library you've heard about and end up with Frankenstein's monster in no time. this new paradigm requires a lot of restraint and focus.

1

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 25d

unfortunately, it really does take a lot of work to keep the agent from rotting the codebase away. Its like making a sculpture with a sandblaster instead of a chisel. you can easily destroy something that was perfectly shaped.

1

Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 25d

using coding agents is so exhilarating. you go from an idea to a working prototype in almost no time. the hard part is getting your specification right, but once you master how to do "dialog driven development" you feel like a fucking god.

1 1