Rick Blommers
@gamecreature.bsky.social
Software Engineer, Pragmatic Hacker. Father. Nerd and I love a good espresso. @[email protected] (Ruby, FreeBSD)
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Here’s an early look at the new web framework I’m building with @fractaledmind.bsky.social. youtu.be/VWDfeMHBaH0
4. Stephen Margheim - On the tasteful journey to Yippee - wroc_love.rb 2025
YouTube video by wrocloverb
youtu.be
April 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Here’s an early look at the new web framework I’m building with @fractaledmind.bsky.social. youtu.be/VWDfeMHBaH0
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Got attacked by a botnet with more than 18000 IPs. ActiveHashcash saved that Rails app. I strongly believe that is the best protection since CPU is the most expensive in hardware and it does not annoy final users.
May 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Got attacked by a botnet with more than 18000 IPs. ActiveHashcash saved that Rails app. I strongly believe that is the best protection since CPU is the most expensive in hardware and it does not annoy final users.
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(🎁) GIFT LINK to a stunning but also inarguable New York Times piece that says in no uncertain terms that America is no longer a democracy but an autocracy.
Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
www.nytimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:50 AM
(🎁) GIFT LINK to a stunning but also inarguable New York Times piece that says in no uncertain terms that America is no longer a democracy but an autocracy.
Reposted by Rick Blommers
Strings are a leaky abstraction for HTML joel.drapper.me/leaky-strings/
Strings are a leaky abstraction for HTML
Structural templating in Phlex
joel.drapper.me
April 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Strings are a leaky abstraction for HTML joel.drapper.me/leaky-strings/
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People of The American Oblasts love their free speech.
March 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
People of The American Oblasts love their free speech.
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My call for European governments to retain at least a core IT/communication/email/file capability that is independent of US clouds. Named after the iconic Radio Kootwijk which we built in response to the English cutting off our communications with Indonesia in 1916: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
Communications without Musk and Trump: Cloud Kootwijk - Bert Hubert
In the beautiful Dutch booklet Over en Uit: Driekwart Eeuw Radiocommunicatie 1900 - 1975 (‘Over and out: 75 years of radio communications’), we read:
1916: As a result of British cable censorship, fre...
berthub.eu
February 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
My call for European governments to retain at least a core IT/communication/email/file capability that is independent of US clouds. Named after the iconic Radio Kootwijk which we built in response to the English cutting off our communications with Indonesia in 1916: berthub.eu/articles/pos...