Johan Halse
hejsna@ruby.social
<p>Reformed frontend developer, writing Ruby for a living. Last full night of sleep was in 2016</p>
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Vercel sounds like a boner pill
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6wk1m-jQ45A
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This was a lot better than his last anti-AI screed https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/
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PDF generation in Ruby is complicated. There are three realistic choices, really: Prawn (low level, move-here-then-draw-this type operations), wkhtmltopdf (pull in AN ENTIRE BROWSER and render to PDF) and HexaPDF which seems cool but has kind of a weird license? But I had a brain moment last week and spent some time making this: https://github.com/johanhalse/bandoola
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Vad fan, 27 lax för ingenjörer och sysadmins? Äger Peje Emilsson en IT-konsultlåda också eller vem är Kristerssons vän den här gången? https://omni.se/uppgifter-regeringen-slopar-lonekrav-for-vardbitraden-och-underskoterskor/a/V649gJ
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One of the perks of not eating meat is being able to reuse the knife and cutting board for everything without having to worry about like E. coli or botulism or whatever
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I always confuse Don DeLillo and Dom DeLuise. Somebody should do a mashup
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About to climb aboard a long metal tube filled with explosive dinosaur juice, this is of course not absurd at all
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&quot;Boomerslop&quot; is such an amazing word.
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React apps are, overwhelmingly, just straight-up worse than plain old server-rendered markup. I don’t understand why everyone keeps building with it. The DX isn’t even that good.
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DHH has gone off the rails https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2025/09/26/david-please-stop-posting/
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AI boosters looking their firing squad squarely in the eyes, then breaking out in a heartfelt cheer for them before being gunned down https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2026/02/03/the-sideprocalypse/