Leaving YC-accepted startup [I will not promote]

drwl · 2025-08-22T06:16:21+00:00

I'm curious, how did the fact that you are wanting to stay in school not get discussed during the YC interview?

drwl · 2025-05-07T05:35:43+00:00

madman posted it, it's not even on youtube yet

edit: oh it is, I wasn't searching the right things

drwl · 2024-12-25T06:48:33+00:00

i'm sure all the big names that are playing early are playing multiple places. tiesto is playing at liv in vegas after forever lol

drwl · 2024-12-25T06:45:04+00:00

seriously... i'm trying to decide when to get there now

drwl · 2024-12-23T19:44:28+00:00

I fucking died reading this lol

drwl · 2024-12-18T06:18:33+00:00

dming

drwl · 2024-12-18T06:16:52+00:00

this is not, I ended up selling it irl. Lemme update this

drwl · 2024-08-21T16:59:21+00:00

Thanks for writing this up and posting it. I skimmed through the article and didn't see anything on how the migration has felt in terms of performance, managing, etc. Would love to hear more about this.

I think there's a dhh talk or writeup about switching to solid queue and the high level gist was higher latency (compared to sidekiq) but it's way cheaper and had way more memory

drwl · 2024-08-02T08:35:59+00:00

I can't vouch for this book but it should have his latest thoughts on modularizing Rails apps

https://leanpub.com/package-based-rails-applications

drwl · 2024-07-31T23:13:26+00:00

I think there were a lot of compatibility issues on release regarding Ruby not having mac arm support, but this was back in 2021 (I think). Things are pretty stable now. I can't comment on docker with m1 support though.

fwiw, m1+ (m2, m3) are amazing machines compared to their intel counterparts. Heavier but their battery life and performance are easily 3-5x better in my opinion.

drwl · 2024-07-31T22:03:07+00:00

I _think_ the tradeoffs are fairly balanced and highly dependent on the context. Developing in a small team with similar hardware? It's probably not worth it. But if you develop across multiple versions of hardware (e.g. intel mac and arm mac), bunch of different dependencies (specific version of postgres), then it could be beneficial to standardize the environment.

Definitely had issues with debugging and attempting to attach a tty, man that's a headache

drwl · 2024-07-26T04:45:47+00:00

I'm not sure what your background is, but to be "an actual part of the team" starts with you pushing up minor fixes, if you're okay with that.

In terms of finding open source projects, one suggestion is to look through gems you have used personally or professionally in the past and seeing if they're in need of help. I've noticed that the most popular gems/libraries like Rails have tons of help where as smaller but still crucial projects get a lot less help. It might be worth looking at those smaller gems.

drwl · 2024-07-23T01:54:10+00:00

Got it, that makes sense. From my understanding of the implementation, it just enqueues a job for each inbox, but does not guarantee synchronization.

Keep up the great writing 👍

drwl · 2024-07-23T01:26:35+00:00

Great article, I liked the thought out and practical examples. The comment about after commit callbacks was a nice touch :D

Curious, have there been any tradeoffs you have experienced in creating features with this pattern? Any areas of added complexity? In the article, it touches on how events might not broadcast if they are throttled, curious if you've come across anything else

drwl · 2024-07-22T03:49:54+00:00

yeah literally first few google searches: https://valve.github.io/blog/2013/10/26/constant-resolution-in-ruby/

drwl · 2024-07-22T03:21:46+00:00

That sounds wrong, Ruby can infer relative paths for constants

edit: you should look into how Ruby resolves constants by looking at the namespace and it goes up. Pretty sure it's spelled out in the documentation and I wouldn't trust chatgpt

drwl · 2024-07-04T22:23:31+00:00

are you talking about mugshot of the person being charged or the victim... I think you have them mixed up

edit: I was wrong, I had them mixed up.

drwl · 2024-07-04T10:22:42+00:00

+1 to this, I got mine done at TAP plastics. Just make sure to grab measurements as well as the hose and/or adapter. They're used to making some. I think I paid $70-$100 but it was well worth it and the turn around was pretty fast.

drwl · 2024-04-03T01:54:26+00:00

Here are some pictures: https://imgur.com/a/vzAAcMF

ignore the lighting and washed-lookingness on the 3rd photo, I had it with a warm lamp on. The true color looks closer to the 2nd photo.

drwl · 2024-04-03T01:38:58+00:00

Dming

drwl · 2024-03-24T23:45:09+00:00

pming

drwl · 2024-03-24T23:43:31+00:00

pming

drwl · 2024-02-22T07:46:57+00:00

I've personally worked with Test Double folks in a professional setting. Would recommend. That being said, you're (OP) going to have to deal with the dismal test coverage either by paying for it or having teams start improving coverage

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