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Experienced solo Rails dev here. I'm on Remix / Drizzle ORM / Render.com / Render Postgres / Cloudflare R2 / DaisyUI + shadcn/ui these days. Drizzle can be a bit tricky if you're c…

It would be slow on MySQL, though. If you EXPLAIN that query, it's a DEPENDENT SUBQUERY which has to fetch N*M records. It would be mitigated if the columns are property indexed, b…

That works, but what if there are thousands of comments? Initializing N*M AR objects could be even slower than N+1 queries. I wish if we could do something like: has_one :approved_…

This is actually like JSON, but with better parse-ability and aggregate-ability by UNIX commands.

Thank you. I think you made a good point - by not charging I may be actually making people skeptical. We even have a vibrant developer community on bots and extensions, but it's ba…

As a founder of http://lingr.com , I know firsthand how hard to build a chat app and make it sustainable. I've been working on it since 2006, first as a startup, then as my persona…

The title is misleading. They will no longer accept new signups, but continue to work.

SaaS. http://dumper.io/ and http://uptimer.at/

Validate if he/she's a good fit for your team first. Usually it takes time. Equity has a permanent effect and you don't want to make a decision in haste.

I wanted an easy-to-use backup service that just works, but everything I was able to find sucked. So I created one myself. :)

As to MongoDB, in case you only have two members in a replica set, you add an arbiter, not strictly three members. An arbiter is indeed a lightweight mongod process that doesn't ha…

I wanted a website monitoring tool that just works, but every tool I could find sucked. So I created one myself. :)

Randomness is an interesting topic indeed. For instance, up until 2012 introduced with Ivy Bridge, a true hardware-based random number generator hasn't been available to the masses…