The unsexy truth for the build in public hypeboys is that its not a lot of work or time to get a sexy demo, but it is a lot of work and time to translate that into meaningful value (a lot of that being non-technical). And I see too many people repeatedly celebrating the demo.…
Be wary of people who spew AI hype and screenshot their army of agents but don't seem to be shipping anything but demos. I'm a big fan of AI assistance and use agents and chat everyday, but there's a ton of engagement farming happening out there.
Coding interviews in 2025, as witnessed recently:
- transcription of the call running on 2nd screen
- LLM helps answer the questions
For now, it’s pretty obvious when it happens, but soon we’ll be back to in-person interviews…
Almost had a heart attack when Postgres said all production tables were suddenly gone...
Yesterday I ran: `psql < dump.sql` on the production db to move two small tables (~2K records) from another db and the Rails app started throwing errors:
PG::UndefinedTable: ERROR:…
TIL that a buggy Ruby Regex can eat up 100% of CPU, block Puma threads and effectively cause a Rails app to DoS itself.
App started consuming 100% CPU on all threads, no idea why. Puma had to be SIGKILL'ed multiple times a day to work again.
Spent some time with Claude tracking…
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