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- One Week of Building and Reviewing Code With LLM Agents
Logging a week of agent‑driven backend work, the engineer shows LLMs generated most code, isolated agents found real bugs, while multi‑tool agreement often missed defects.
- lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
Lobsters successfully moved from MariaDB to SQLite, cutting CPU and memory use, halving VPS costs, and keeping the site responsive after migration.
- Activepad - Rails scratchpad for macOS
Activepad is a native macOS scratchpad that lets Rails developers run Ruby code against real app models and database with autocomplete and remote SSH support.
- Self-updating screenshots
A developer describes a build system that auto-captures screenshots from a live web app via Markdown comments, ensuring documentation images never go stale.
- Show HN: Rails UI
Rails UI offers a subscription-based design system of consistent, pre-built screens and components for Rails apps, aiming to bridge the gap AI can't fix.
- LLMs and your career
Software developers who understand fundamentals like databases and operating systems will remain competitive as LLMs automate routine coding.
Takes
it says a lot that the creators of three of the most iconic web frameworks: django (@simonw), flask (@mitsuhiko) and rails (@dhh) were so AI pilled so early
@trq212
Stop building Foxconn factories for your agents
@garrytan
In light of all the heroku drama, here are 3 services I use or have used extensively over the past few years for hosting/deploy/server stuff.@Railway — This to me is the spiritual successor to Heroku. Arguably does the best job at distilling eye-gouging sysadmin stuff down into…
@Shpigford
The beauty of opinionated open source software, like Rails or Omarchy, is that the initial experience can be carefully designed AND still offer the user infinite freedom to tailor it thereafter. It's your framework, it's your OS, it's your computer. https://t.co/b05Lb7yr4X
@dhh
CSRF token headaches in Rails will be a thing of the past thanks to Rosa. She first tested the solution based on Sec-Fetch-Site header in Fizzy (1), and then upstreamed to Rails (2) 🎉(1) https://t.co/jWVDhgCPZQ(2) https://t.co/yfCDyWR1Ko
@jorgemanru