tjstankus

This looks really well done! I've thought about writing an app like this and you've got every feature I envisioned and then some.

Thanks! That was a fun conversation.

I hear you and I agree. The HN vibe is nitpicky, for sure. I was a little surprised the comments here were 100% negative (or not positive, to be fair). I usually wouldn't bother reading all the comments, but I care about Ruby, so I was a little more irked by the negativity than usual. :)

As I type this, every top-level comment here is a criticism or a nitpick. A cool new feature is being added to Ruby. People have done difficult and meaningful work that benefits others. And this is the response here.

I'm psyched for this feature. As someone who has worked primarily with Ruby and Elixir, I really appreciate the design and safety affordances of immutable data. I'm glad there's a bit more immutability in Ruby and that, in general, the language keeps progressing. Thank you Ruby language devs.

Wow, memory lane here. My first programming job was working on Symbian apps. I think I had a 1MB heap and something like an 8KB stack to work with. Good times!

I'm an old timer. I paid a small, one-time fee over ten years ago and have used Pinboard (not without some frustration) ever since. I paid the subscription fee when I received the email a couple days ago. It only seems fair.

Thanks for sharing this, I've been thinking about building something like it, now I may not need to.

Thanks for reading and providing feedback. Yes, it definitely could've been shorter, but everything in it is intentional. Many longer pieces suffer from lack of editing, which was definitely not the case here. Looking forward to your book!

I agree naming is one of the most important things we do. Would love to get your thoughts on the article I linked in this comment thread.

As a motorcyclist, this has become my primary concern on the roads in the past few years. I constantly and actively check for drivers using their phones. If I can see their eyes or heads glancing up and down, I get far away. If they're having trouble staying in their lane, I get far away. At night, if their faces are illuminated in a blue glow, they're holding their phones and I get far away. I use those techniques in addition to all the other safety measures you get taught by the MSF. If I didn't love riding so much, I'd quit. Seriously. It's more dangerous than it's ever been. You have to be so diligent. But on two wheels, an open road without distracted drivers is still as glorious as it has ever been.

I think your argument is focused too far along the timeline. Yes, the Republican majority was elected. What's in dispute is the legitimacy of how they came to be elected, given the proven racist bias of how districts came to be. Different (fairer) districting might not change the Republican majority status, but it probably wouldn't be so lopsided. (BTW: Asheville is almost completely blue, too.)

I love the ideas, but I doubt the reality of ever getting this workflow implemented. I've been a professional developer for 17 years and exactly zero of the companies I've worked for would implement this process. Besides in research environments, is there any software shop out there doing this?