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A blast from the past. When Taskrabbit was acquired by IKEA, I built several tools that went through the whole catalog via various crawling approaches. One tool was to estimate how…

I am excited about the Rails defaults where background and cache and sockets are all database driven. For normal-sized projects that still need those things, it's a huge win in sim…

Ario | Onsite in Palo Alto, CA | Full-time | heyario.com I recently started at Ario where we are building an app for parents that uses AI to make things easier. We are targeting sa…

We have to work on the scaling. There is lots of web scraping and LLM calls that we need to make sure works under load. I'm sure there will be quality improvements as well.

AMA: I was on the team that built the AI Assist functionality. Happy to chat about it. I became obsessed with documentation sites for a while there.

Hi HN friends! We can hardly believe it’s been almost four years since our original HN launch ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25917403 ). What started as a small project has…

Just came to say, I still think this is the best balance between the many factors of running a dev team. I keep trying to recreate it in every tool I use.

Airbyte acquired our Reverse ETL company, Grouparoo, 1.5 years ago. There is so much to solve making just the Extract and Load work well and so much value that comes from that, we …

Maybe some day this will be available in JSON. I built a system for TaskRabbit that scraped all the IKEA products from a variety of sources and ran algorithms to determine their ca…

From the Grouparoo team, we are so excited to be working with Airbyte to be able to move data anywhere you want it to go.

Congrats to the Castled team on the launch. At Grouparoo, this is a primary use case. We have a UI that engineers use locally. This helps gets things right. It outputs a JSON confi…

It's hard to leave the comparisons dangling, for sure. But I'll defer for now. Congrats on the launch :-)

There are probably some nuances one level down. Things our users have told us they can do in these areas that, to my knowledge, Hightouch doesn't do: * Combine data from different …

Congrats on the launch! Hightouch looks great and this need is real. Things seem to be going well, so I don't think I'm taking too much away by mentioning that we have been been wo…

We just finished up the Open Source Data Stack conference, which is all about this topic. Feel free to check out the reply. Specifically, open source approaches to the modern data …

We are super excited to share our new developer tooling that makes these integrations so easy. Let me know if you have any questions

Here was my attempt several years ago that used reveal.js https://github.com/bleonard/jekyll-slides I found it useful to have notes as well that showed up when presenting on the ot…

It's certainly not production situation, but I quickly made this [1] a while back to help with "watching" certain queries for debugging. It uses a polling approach. [1] https://git…