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I like that there's a list of primary sources at the bottom.

Kagi's AI assistant has been satisfying compared to Claude and ChatGPT, both of which insisted on having a personality no matter what my instructions said. Trying to do well-sourced research always pissed me off. With Kagi it gives me a summary of sources it's found and that's it!

Great little to-the-point writeup. Thanks! This is helpful for me choosing my own small-scale stack, which I've been having trouble with lately.

One major difference is that I'm currently hosting a bunch of very small apps off the same hetzner box just by myself, and I'm using Docker Compose instead of something like Hatchbox (or another bring-your-own-PaaS like Coolify or Dokploy, which are both less specific than Hatchbox). I'm not running any production-level apps, though; maybe Hatchbox would provide better stability/teamwork?

I've switched to a flatpak-based immutable distro lately. It's great when it works. But so many niceties don't work, and then it feels like my computer is not really the fantastic tool it should be. For example:

- I had to run around with a distrobox running WINE and a bunch of permissions and kludges to run an external tool for Godot

- I gave up on the flatpak for Firefox because it can't talk to my KeepassDX flatpak

- The Godot and Krita flatpaks are oddly unstable and crash more than they did on Windows (may just be Gnome or something)

- non-flatpak tools like AppImages and .rpms feel pretty dang grungy

I want to see more cool stuff with Flatpak so seeing the state it's in is kind of a bummer.

I don't know anything about compliers, so this note about reasons and intentions from the presentation link was helpful to me:

> YJIT can make Ruby code run faster, but this is a balancing act, because the JIT compiler itself must consume both memory and CPU cycles to compile and optimize your code while it is running. Furthermore, in large-scale production environments such as those of GitHub, Shopify and Stripe, we end up in a situation where YJIT is compiling the same code over and over again on a very large number of servers, which seems very inefficient.

> In this presentation, we will go over the design of ZJIT, a next generation Ruby JIT which aims to save and reuse compiled code between executions. We hope that this will help us eliminate duplicated work while also allowing the compiler to spend more time optimizing code so that we can get better performance.

Seems pretty cool. I haven't run into any these limitations in my own usage really, but I'm working at very small scales.

This is really surprising to me. Wouldn't this make it a good deal more expensive to produce most kinds of apparel and some merchandise? Maybe I'm out of date on modern printing and embroidery tech.

Oh wow! It took me a bit to realize this was DHH of Ruby on Rails fame (among other things). I like this message. After a career in Java, bash, Python, PHP, and a half-dozen config-definition languages, I've never found anything that evokes the joy-of-actually-writing-code like Ruby does.

Well, other than few tiny niggles like my code editor not being sure what kind of variable something is. But usually that doesn't matter.

Super cool. Thanks for maintaining this.

I read manga extensively on my Kobo Forma with koreader. I wrote a script with imagemagick to scale, trim, adjust contrast, map to 16 colors, dither, and repack, all without me having to interact with it... something I'm hoping to open-source sometime, although it's very specific to my use case.

Very, very cool.

Rather few of the stereotypical hacker crowd may be ultimately affected by this---unless Mr. Friede injects himself with some trojans and worms as well! (Forgive me)

Very cool. I'm one of the few (it seems) who likes these styles of chart, so that was a nice surprise.

I love Ruby, and one of my few qualms about using it is that it doesn't really have any cross-platform GUI libraries. Someday I'll try building one in JRuby...

Do you ever handle the physical book, or is this a fully automated drop-shipping operation?