Piotr Ch @p_ch

Ruby on Rails / Webdev consultant • Let's chat → https://t.co/YzPlzNRPTf ptrchm.com Warsaw, Poland Joined February 2008

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

2 days ago

I have WAL-G set up with kamal, streaming to S3 for point-in-time recovery. It's pretty straightforward: gist.github.com/pch/1c1437d046… Run `kamal db_backup` once to create the initial backup, then everything will be streamed automatically. I also have a `prod2local` script that takes the latest backup and restores it locally, so I can test if the backup actually works. All done by codex/claude. I also have pgBackRest in another app (@rails & kamal as well), but it was a pain to get up and running. WAL-G config is much simpler.

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Brandur @brandur

7 days ago

I just found Brave's "Force Paste" option that bypasses the work of sordid retards who prevent pasting into form fields. This might have just endured me to this browser for life.

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

a week ago

a good write-up on the current hardware situation: マリウス.com/hold-on-to-you…

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

a week ago

I have a couple of unused Hetzner VPSes that I planned to shut down. But after the price increase it’s cheaper to hold on to them…

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ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen

2 weeks ago

I think one thing that is understated is that the hard parts can feel harder with more delegation. Not only are you attempting to solve hard architectural ideas, you also are constantly solving it in a project in which you don't have the same deep familiarity that we did say a couple years ago. It's like you're always on your first day, but you're given the task of refactoring the universe. At least that's something I have noticed that makes me feel a bit angsty

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Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec

2 weeks ago

You would think when everyone has a couple of MCPs and frontier LLMs to-hand, consulting businesses like mine would be toast. Why pay Speedshop four figures a month to fix your app when "an LLM can just do it for me?" I've been running at 100% capacity for the past year despite all the advances on the model front. Why? 1. You've gotten more effective, but so have I. What _I_ can accomplish with an hour + $50 of tokens is still 10x what _you_ can accomplish with that. 2. You still don't know what questions to ask. Consultants are _still_ more effective than LLMs at answering the unknown unknowns, whereas LLMs still require you to prompt them. The "analyze my entire codebase" skill you have is nowhere near as effective as what I can do. 3. Trust and blame-ability. Everyone is sitting on piles of now _hundreds_ of pull requests which are generated by agents but they are too nervous to merge without human review. I am that human review and accountability now, or I am the expert who helps you build the software factory which can automate this trust and verification process (which you cannot build yourself because you don't know how to verify software for performance). 4. Not all problems are LLM-shaped. Certain problems are a great fit for "token generator in a loop": fix all my N+1s, make my test suite faster. But others are very, very poorly shaped for LLMs: refactor my codebase to fit Russian Doll caching (it will generate an utter hackjob), prioritize 100 different possible things I could be doing, define the goals of performance work, etc. Drudgery is now automatable, yes, but not all the work we do is drudgery. 5. Not all useful knowledge is in the training data. I have ten years of experiences and knowledge from working on literally hundreds of applications which never made it to my blog or books and does not appear in the training set. I know things the LLMs do not. There are probably more reasons. And I'm not just sitting on my laurels either, I still feel the pressure to get better every day as the frontier capabilities continue to grow. But the business is still good.

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

2 weeks ago

@mxcl 😑

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

3 weeks ago

I was sure I cancelled my @creativecloud subscription. Turns out I didn't. Just got renewed for another year. Whoever designed this UX deserves to burn in hell.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

3 weeks ago

As with fat tails Llms are frequency machines that fail to extrapolate outside the sample set. What they know is the VISIBLE. Almost as bad as economists, almost worse than psychologists.

Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi

4 weeks ago

Most experiments fail, and negative results rarely get published. This means LLMs are unaware of the outcomes of most experiments.

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

3 weeks ago

@PaddleHQ someone is scamming your users (chatbotapp) and your support bot is forwarding complaints to me, because those users had previous transactions with my app years ago. Please get a hold of your support chatbot. This is not the first time it happens.

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

3 weeks ago

a random mind-blowing fact: Paul’s letters are older than the gospels

Joe Rogan Recaps @JoeRoganRecaps

3 weeks ago

New: Joe Rogan was left completely stunned after devout Christian Joe Eszterhas exposed who Jesus Christ really was: ROGAN: “If you live your life by the teachings of Jesus Christ you will be a better person.” ESZTERHAS: “We’ve created this narrative that Jesus was just this

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

a month ago

> The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/up…

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

a month ago

@levelsio Just got pressured to buy a helmet for the first time in my life and I hate this damn thing.

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

a month ago

All I can think of when I look at this node app I’m working on.

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

a month ago

Rails is so good, we don’t appreciate it enough.

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

a month ago

@levelsio and with cloudflare tunnel you don’t even need a vps provider you can host webapps from home from an old pc (not that you should)

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

a month ago

@matid got it i like fizzy's implentation: app.fizzy.do/signup/new signup requires email + magic code, then you can add a passkey and log in with a passkey only best of both worlds when email is required

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

a month ago

Any examples of passkeys done right? GitHub is close-ish but still tied to username.

Quinn Nelson @SnazzyLabs

a month ago

And most web devs don’t either. It pisses me off when Passkeys are used either as 2FA and/or in addition to keeping a traditional username/password WHICH DEFEATS THE ENTIRE POINT.

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

a month ago

@matid is username required for signup? that's a big passkey ux gap: you need username/email for signup. otherwise users will end up with multiple accounts (one per device), not knowing why it happens

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Piotr Ch @p_ch

a month ago

@Bencera @marckohlbrugge how nice

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