Linell's comments

On: Ask HN: Share your personal website

[Linell]

https://thelinell.com isn’t much, but it’s mine!

On: Show HN: EchoStream – A Local AI Agent That Lives on Your iPhone

[Linell]

If you like this idea, I made something similar at https://saguaro.thelinell.com, although it works using various RSS feeds.

On: Rewrite it in Rails

[Linell]

Do you have any examples of why RoR is more time consuming to refactor than other languages?

[rapind → Linell]

IMO rails is a victim of it's own success. By being incredibly productive and easy to get things up and running, you don't have to reason about your data design as much, meaning you are more likely (not guaranteed) to throw together a bunch of badly related garbage.

People love to blame the language and the framework, but in reality once you're past the proof of viability point, it's usually worth taking the time to review some of those initial decisions... except now you need to GrOw! :)

The fact that it's rails is irrelevant. It could be any tool that makes you really efficient by never erecting guard rails.

On: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

[Linell]

This comment is a little confusing unless you click through -- the pricing page says that it's free to use with no strings attached.

https://www.lowercase.app/pricing/

On: Build a search engine, not a vector DB

[Linell]

It's worth saying that ES can work as a vector store itself, so it's very easy to handle a couple different kinds of searches this way.

On: Ruby Tip – Interactive debugging without the need for gems

[Linell]

Another pro-tip in this vein is `object.methods` to see a list of the methods to which the object you're messing with will respond. I use this all of the time when I'm diving into something trying to figure out what's going on.

[werdnapk → Linell]

I always do object.methods.sort, otherwise my brain can't consume it

[ckrailo → werdnapk]

I use `my_object.methods.sort - Object.methods` to help reduce the methods I need to consider.

[vidarh → ckrailo]

Subtracting Object.new.methods will remove more of the standard methods than Object.methods.

[ckrailo → vidarh]

Even better, thank you!

On: Wikidata, with 12B facts, can ground LLMs to improve their factuality

[Linell]

Yes, it's called retrieval augmented generation.

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)

[Linell]

SBLive Sports | San Diego, CA | Full-time full stack developer (REMOTE ok for right candidate) - https://scorebooklive.com Senior/Staff Full Stack Developer (Rails/React/TypeScript)

Are you passionate about sports and technology?

We're looking for someone with experience programming in modern languages - we primarily use Ruby and TypeScript with React and React Native. The candidate will work with and help lead a small team of engineers to create, maintain, and test our core products.

You will be working with industry veterans from ESPN, Disney, Amazon, and the NBA who are passionate about sports and technology. This position can work remotely and/or at our location in San Diego, California. This full time position includes a competitive salary, benefits and stock option package inside a growing and well-funded company.

If this sounds exciting, shoot us a note with your resume (or a link to your Linkedin, Github, etc) to jobs@scorebooklive.com

[prh8 → Linell]

FYI every time I visit your site (seen your jobs in the past), the infinite scroll makes it really difficult to get to th company about page or anywhere to find more info.

On: Programming languages going above and beyond

[Linell]

How?

On: Diabetes projected to affect 1.3B people by 2050 as waistlines keep growing

[Linell]

I don't have links or anything handy, so take this with a bit of a grain of salt, but I _have_ seen things that confirm my anecdata that sugar free drinks are pretty horrible for your gut microbiome. I do still prefer them to their calorie-dense versions when I have one, but I think it's worth being very cautious about drinking tons of the stuff and assuming it's at all "better".