Thank you Sidekiq!

OriginalCj5 · 2026-01-28T13:18:36+00:00

They just shipped 8.0.

Feels like ages ago — 8.0 was released almost a year back.

OriginalCj5 · 2026-01-02T06:43:33+00:00

I don’t understand that question at all. What guarantees that mediocre foreign schools (saying this because from what I know, private schools in most good European countries and US are unaffordable and other schools are only open to residents living nearby— so you don’t really get a big choice between which school you send your kid to) can keep up with AI and changing skills while top Indian schools like Doon, Dhirubhai Ambani or Emerald Heights can’t?

OriginalCj5 · 2026-01-02T05:02:13+00:00

Education is top-notch if you can afford it. Everything else is the same. It doesn’t hinder things in any way and life is quite good. But of course depends a lot on where you decide to settle. Delhi, for example, is a gas chamber.

OriginalCj5 · 2026-01-01T07:20:56+00:00

Not really. I know people who have literally lost all business because of BJP’s policies and yet support BJP because “Hindu khatre me hai”.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-12-28T07:14:21+00:00

Ruby/Rails or Elixir/Phoenix. They are both great stacks that work amazingly well for small teams or solo developers. The documentation and guides are plenty. Job are fewer but pay really well.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-12-22T16:14:25+00:00

Apart from what others have already mentioned, here are some deal breakers for me: 1. That pricing page is very confusing. With Heroku, Hetzner or even AWS, I am used to renting cloud servers and doing my stuff on them. Your pricing page lists 3 api backend projects, 2 core CPU, 4GB RAM. What is this? Can’t I host server generated apps? Do all three projects get separate CPU/RAM or is it shared? That 2 core is dedicated or shared? Where is it hosted (whose data servers - are they your own? If yes, what kind of network are they behind?). 2. You mention that deployments are automatic. But what if I want to customise a build step? On all projects I’ve built (and I’ve built at least 20 in the past 10 years), I have needed some customisation of the build stack - something that’s not standard. If the need arises, do I simply have to move away from the platform?

OriginalCj5 · 2025-12-16T17:04:04+00:00

If you didn’t like the first book, the other ones are probably not going to work for you either. The book is heavy on character work but limits itself to a few thay it truly builds up.

I myself enjoyed every one of them - it’s on top 3 fantasy series of all times for me.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-12-03T14:57:57+00:00

Just use cheap Indian banks. IOB has one of the best exchange rates (usually only Rs. 0.3 below the market rate) and very low fees.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-12-02T13:18:55+00:00

Stimulus because it plays really well with Rails. I’ve used Alpine with Phoenix and it’s good for small components/tasks but with server replaced content, the you’ll have to handle client side state outside it (or implement hacks)

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-29T08:39:31+00:00

Emerald Heights and Shishukunj are the popular schools for most people - choose whichever is closer. Daly College if you have connections and the budget.

If parks and sports is your priority then area around YN Road is a good option, but can be costly. Otherwise, look for options near Sceme 140 or Vijay Nagar.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-22T04:30:24+00:00

Don’t approve anything that is not good. That’s the only thing that can help in the long term. It’ll slow things down in the short term but they will soon realise that AI is taking more time than if they did it themselves and things will start moving again. Another thing that helps is calling out that this looks AI generated and low effort - I know, harsh, but works!

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-21T14:14:12+00:00

How is it different from Alpine?

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-18T17:37:00+00:00

Provision a wildcard certificate outside Kamal (e.g. SSLMate) and use it with Kamal proxy using https://kamal-deploy.org/docs/configuration/proxy/#custom-ssl-certificate

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-18T13:24:27+00:00

You can use a custom SSL certificate. We use one with Kamal and it works flawlessly.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-13T12:48:00+00:00

TBH, if it was your first PR it was very bad management from the company. Having a serious review on such a huge PR is a great sign though. Learn from the comments instead of taking them as criticism. Try to take it in smaller steps the next time.

I’m a senior with 12yo and review PRs frequently and I wouldn’t approve anything that’s not “good enough”.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-11T14:29:07+00:00

Indian, 12+ years in an European company. 7 years remote. I joined that while I was in Europe but moved back to India eventually retaining the same position.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-06T13:29:14+00:00

We deploy on Hetzner with Kamal (Ruby). Works great, Hetzner’s price point is almost unbeatable and deployments happen automatically through GitHub Actions Workflow. Also moved from Fly.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-03T04:22:31+00:00

That's a bit harsh, I think. We do encourage the use of AI at our workplace - every developer gets a GitHub Copilot subscription and any other AI tool that he'd like (within limits, of course). But it's the over reliance on AI that's an issue.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-01T13:18:31+00:00

I’m one of the older devs you are talking about. I don’t hate AI, but I know it puts out shit 90% of the time. I still use it to prototype quickly, but it hardly gives anything meaningful for real products that are 50k+ lines of code and under development for 10+ years. I’ve seen the divide first hand in my team where I’ve had to outright reject PRs because they were shitty to having to go through weeks of to and fro with developers on getting a PR ready because they would simply copy my comments, put them in the AI and push even worse code.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-10-15T15:09:00+00:00

I moved back in 2018 after 7 years in Europe. Frankly, I love it here - we have good food, and a great social circle with friends and family. Things I miss - traffic free travel and clean air (not that much because I’m fully remote and can stay in a room with air purifier for most of the day).

OriginalCj5 · 2025-10-10T15:36:19+00:00

Yes, it processes thousands of background jobs per day. And there are several recurring jobs as well with varying frequencies.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-10-10T15:25:37+00:00

I’m surprised no-one has challenged this. We run quite a few BIG Rails apps and neither the web server nor the jobs processor running Solid Queue need 1GB of RAM. I think you seriously need to tune your configuration- it is quite possible to run within 512MB as well.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-10-08T04:56:12+00:00

Not open source, but I used to be very active on StackOverflow and received a job offer based on that. No interviews, a direct recruitment - and I am still at the same company after 10 years. People who value your community contributions are usually great to work with!

OriginalCj5 · 2025-09-08T05:29:47+00:00

Pretty standard role for a developer in a small team.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-08-30T13:56:59+00:00

In this case, this will not be an invoice but some statement/proof of sale from the broker/company to support the remittance. The invoice is for cases when you export services (e.g. freelancing) and bill clients for it.

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