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Rails on SQLite: exciting new ways to cause outages

This post was originally given as a talk for Friendly.rb. The slides are also available. Between Litestack and the Rails 8 trifecta of Solid Cable, Solid Cache, and Solid Queue, it’s easier than ever to spin up a Rails app that doesn’t need a database service, or a redis service, or a file storage service. It’s great to simplify things, but even after 20 years of deploying Rails apps I was still caught out by some of the ways things are different.

2025-09-11T08:29:51-0700 André.Arko.net André Arko 3,000 words

Rated 2025-09-11T21:12:12-0700

Hotwire components that refresh themselves | Boring Rails: Skip the bullshit and ship fast

boringrails.com

Rated 2025-09-09T08:43:46-0700

This power source is 15,000 ft below the ground | Bill Gates

A company called Fervo Energy is hoping to supercharge geothermal power with an innovative new approach to turning the earth’s heat into power. #Climate Change

gatesnotes.com Bill Gates 1,000 words

Rated 2025-09-06T14:43:17-0700

The Asshole Filter –

The

2024-04-01T02:41:00-0700 Mr. Steinberg jamespsteinberg 5,000 words

Rated 2025-09-05T22:21:05-0700

The Making of an American House of Lords: The U.S. Senate in the Constitutional Convention of 1787* | Studies in American Political Development

The Making of an American House of Lords: The U.S. Senate in the Constitutional Convention of 1787* - Volume 7 Issue 2

Cambridge Core 5,000 words

Rated 2025-09-05T18:41:21-0700

Giving people money helped less than I thought it would

Ending the war on poverty will take more than cash transfers

2025-08-19T03:00:58-0700 The Argument Kelsey Piper 3,000 words

Rated 2025-09-05T14:32:51-0700

Opinion | How Math Turned Me From a D.E.I. Skeptic to a Supporter

It’s about more than figuring out the right or wrong answers to questions. #College #Mathematics #US Politics

2025-09-05T02:01:04-0700 The New York Times Eugenia Cheng ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-09-05T14:23:35-0700

Opinion | Why I Am Not a Liberal

I don’t think the left grasps reality in all its fullness. #Poverty

2025-09-04T22:00:05-0700 The New York Times David Brooks ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-09-05T14:17:37-0700

Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive

How the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI. #Politics

2025-09-04T05:30:04-0700 The Verge Josh Dzieza ($) 10,000 words

Rated 2025-09-05T13:22:15-0700

Scribble-based forecasting and AI 2027

DYNOMIGHT

Rated 2025-09-04T16:10:12-0700

A ton of AI images I've made that I've liked

I think people with my aesthetic taste have been underrepresented in presentations of AI art. Here I try to change that.

2025-08-13T18:59:10-0700 The Weird Turn Pro Andy Masley 1,000 words

Rated 2025-09-04T16:07:09-0700

How a baby sleep consultant saved my sanity and my marriage

One thing I prided myself on was that I never had any preconceived ideas about how I would raise my kids in advance of having them.

2024-08-26T04:02:17-0700 Notes from New York Aisling Marron 2,000 words

Rated 2025-09-03T21:17:09-0700

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.

2025-09-03T08:01:15-0700 Mike Judge 2,000 words

Rated 2025-09-03T16:28:09-0700

Progress Studies and Feminization

You can't undo just one part of the 1960s

2025-04-07T16:59:39-0700 Not With a Bang Arctotherium 3,000 words

Rated 2025-09-02T22:08:07-0700

You can try to like stuff

it offers lessons on your nature

2025-08-27T17:00:00-0700 DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-09-02T21:01:28-0700

Chicago’s lead pipe crisis, mapped

Chicago has the nation's highest concentration of lead pipes. We mapped them all.

2025-08-28T03:30:00-0700 Grist Keerti Gopal, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Peter Aldhous, Clayton Aldern, ... 3,000 words

Rated 2025-09-02T20:47:52-0700

Culture Has No Name for This Cursed Vibe. It’s Everywhere

How the stupid and the awful collide in our distracted, digitally-fueled culture into a new and cursed vibe. #Fascism #Horror #Surrealism

2025-02-19T10:28:46-0800 Artnet News Ben Davis 4,000 words

Rated 2025-09-01T22:12:15-0700

Detecting and countering misuse of AI: August 2025

Anthropic's threat intelligence report on AI cybercrime and other abuses

anthropic.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-09-01T21:03:14-0700

My Startup Banking Story

2023-03-13T17:00:00-0700 Mitchell Hashimoto 3,000 words

Rated 2025-08-28T20:54:01-0700

How My Chicago Childhood Lead Exposure Connects Me with One in Three Kids Today

I was one of hundreds of millions of children exposed to lead as a child, policymakers and philanthropists are taking bigger steps to combat this today

2025-06-20T06:05:44-0700 Charity for All Marcus A. Davis 2,000 words

Rated 2025-08-26T22:04:42-0700

Beam me up, jellyfish: experts unveil spaceships to take us to the stars

Winner of Project Hyperion design contest envisions polyamorous people thriving onboard cigar-shaped craft

2025-08-06T07:29:00-0700 The Guardian David Batty 1,000 words

Rated 2025-08-26T21:30:00-0700

Safe Is What We Call Things Later - by Scott Werner

worksonmymachine.ai

Rated 2025-08-26T17:27:19-0700

In Search Of AI Psychosis

Folie a deux ex machina

2025-08-26T04:37:49-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 25,000 words

Rated 2025-08-26T16:53:27-0700

U.S. Intel

The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.

2025-08-26T03:00:00-0700 Stratechery by Ben Thompson 3,000 words

Rated 2025-08-26T08:00:03-0700

Google's Liquid Cooling at Hot Chips 2025

Datacenter-Scale Heat Management

2025-08-24T11:47:51-0700 Chips and Cheese Chester Lam 1,000 words

Rated 2025-08-25T21:01:57-0700

What are OKLCH colors?

Article about the OKLCH color model.

jakub.kr 1,000 words

Rated 2025-08-25T07:31:52-0700

The MVP is dead. Long live the RAT. | HackerNoon

There is a flaw at the heart of the term Minimum Viable Product: it’s not a product. It’s a way of testing whether you’ve found a problem worth solving. A way to reduce risk and quickly test your biggest assumption. Instead of building an MVP identify your Riskiest Assumption and Test it. Replacing your MVP with a RAT will save you a lot of pain.

2016-09-27T00:00:00-0700 hackernoon.com Rik Higham 1,000 words

Rated 2025-08-24T19:30:39-0700

Europe Is Losing - WSJ

The Wall Street Journal

Rated 2025-08-24T11:13:15-0700

Bicyclopedia

lemoing.ca

Rated 2025-08-24T08:25:14-0700

What makes Claude Code so damn good (and how to recreate that magic in your agent)!?

An open source Chrome extension that adds AI data agents to your Metabase. Get reliable answers to all your business questions with our AI-powered data analyst.

2025-08-21T00:00:00-0700 MinusX vivek 3,000 words

Rated 2025-08-23T13:36:45-0700

Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates

Since moving to Deep South Texas 4 years ago I've come to realize that many plants I used to love growing in the cool mild maritime climate of the SF bay area are impossible to grow where I live. This is not just because of the high daytime heat. It's not as simple as that. Specifically, it is the h

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't 1,000 words

Rated 2025-08-23T07:41:35-0700

What happened to Egghead Software - The Silicon Underground

dfarq.homeip.net

Rated 2025-08-23T06:39:25-0700

Contra A Review Of Dating Men In The Bay Area

newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com

Rated 2025-08-22T18:58:21-0700

Investigators Used Terrible Computer Fraud Laws To Ensure People Were Punished For Leaking Air Crash Footage To CNN

Earlier this year, an Army helicopter collided with a passenger plane over the Potomac River in Washington, DC. All sixty-seven people aboard both vehicles were killed. While the FAA focused its investigation on the failures that led to this mid-air collision, local investigators in Virginia were somehow far more concerned about identifying who had leaked…

2025-08-22T13:30:09-0700 Techdirt 3,000 words

Rated 2025-08-22T18:52:09-0700

Executive Excess 2025

Executive Excess 2025 - CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations.

2025-08-21T04:00:00-0700 Institute for Policy Studies averyr 2,000 words

Rated 2025-08-21T22:44:25-0700

Gouach wants you to insert and pluck the cells from its Infinite e-bike battery

Tiny French firm wants to keep a few bad cells from spoiling a lot of e-bikes.

2025-05-22T13:12:13-0700 Ars Technica Kevin Purdy 1,000 words

Rated 2025-08-21T14:44:17-0700

Anubis.

lock.cmpxchg8b.com Tavis Ormandy 2,000 words

Rated 2025-08-20T20:18:04-0700

Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical Analysis

Can Hollywood's stamp of artistic excellence still be trusted?

2025-08-20T06:16:00-0700 Stat Significant Daniel Parris 2,000 words

Rated 2025-08-20T20:10:12-0700

DC Rainmaker: The Tech Reviewer on What’s Coming in 2025 and the Secret to Tech Success

Why are Ray Maker's tech reviews so popular?

2025-06-30T11:42:26-0700 Slowtwitch News 2,000 words

Rated 2025-08-20T18:19:07-0700

The Otherworldly Ambitions of R. F. Kuang

The author of “Babel” and “Yellowface” is drawn to stories of striving. Her new fantasy novel, “Katabasis,” asks if graduate school is a kind of hell.

2025-08-18T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Hua Hsu 5,000 words

Rated 2025-08-20T10:36:02-0700

Advice for time management as a manager

have accurate expectations of yourself • prioritize ruthlessly • unemploy your future self • a five-step “help, I’m overwhelmed” checklist • carve out focused time

benkuhn.net 2,000 words

Rated 2025-08-18T22:13:39-0700

Your Review: Dating Men In The Bay Area

Finalist #8 in the Review Contest

2025-08-15T05:48:36-0700 astralcodexten.com Astral Codex Ten 105,000 words

Rated 2025-08-16T20:34:28-0700

Once Again, Oil States Thwart Agreement on Plastics

Yale E360 2,000 words

Rated 2025-08-16T08:36:43-0700

AI is different - <antirez>

antirez.com

Rated 2025-08-16T07:14:16-0700

The future of large files in Git is Git - Tyler Cipriani

tylercipriani.com Tyler Cipriani 1,000 words

Rated 2025-08-15T19:07:58-0700

How I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developer

Tired of fumbling with the PureGym app for 47 seconds every morning, I reverse-engineered their API to build an Apple Wallet pass that gets me in with a quick wrist scan. Along the way, I discovered their bizarre security theatre: QR codes that expire every minute while my ancient 8-digit PIN lives forever.

2025-08-14T00:00:00-0700 Drobinin Limited Vadim Drobinin 2,000 words

Rated 2025-08-15T19:01:08-0700

Opinion | Abolish the Senate. End the Electoral College. Pack the Court.

Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution. #Congress #Donald Trump #Elections

2025-08-14T02:02:17-0700 The New York Times Ross Douthat, Sophia Alvarez Boyd, Raina Raskin ($) 20,000 words

Rated 2025-08-14T19:51:54-0700

Opinion | America’s New Segregation

To be one nation, we have to embrace ground-up social change. #College #Donald Trump

2025-08-14T14:00:06-0700 The New York Times David Brooks ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-08-14T18:32:18-0700

Should Strong Gods Bet On GDP?

Slightly contra Fukuyama on liberal communities

2025-08-05T06:59:30-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 50,000 words

Rated 2025-08-13T06:51:30-0700

Is everyone ok at the gemba

island94.org 2,000 words

Rated 2025-08-10T10:56:23-0700