Pascal Laliberté

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YouTube video by Pascal Laliberté Happy to Report, Aug 7, 2025

Yes! Felt so good getting these goals in:

✅ First rough take at inviting a friend into a reading group
✅ Got a contact at a local university

Also: new goals for in 2 weeks.
#happytoreport

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"Yo, this app launched so fast!"
...is the new...
"It's free, how are they going to be around a long time?"

So many reminders of the ZIRP startup era these days.

"Wait, the oss models will cannibalize OpenAI’s paid models… that’s so generou…"

"Oh, nevermind."

He mentioned you did! :) He thought we should be introduced.

My friends are going to XO Ruby where they can. I can't make it, but you should check them out.

Six, small, one-day events, from a travelling conference, cheap tickets, focus on creating connections.

I told Jim: my vote is for Toronto next year 🤞

I wasn’t supposed to speak English like an English-native.
I wasn’t supposed to write code like an engineer.

It wasn’t like either was a conscious goal. It’s not like I actually achieved either if they were.

But it’s often fun to learn new details you didn’t pick up the last round.

Reputation Payment If a person pays you with money, for your product, then you know you’ve made a product that solves a problem. Money speaks. “This solves my problem.”If a person pays you with money, and tells their fr...

If someone both buys your product (or service) and tells others about it, our product solves two problems.

People pay you reputation payments too.

everyonewantsprogress.com/0077-reputat...

I've been speaking with dev friends using AI for coding.

Top "uh huh!" for me is this:
Time "in the zone" is down compared to before.

Same with you?

So that Superman movie huh!?

$10 that they tried to get Lady Gaga into that role next to Bradley Cooper.

There’s something here that feels like delegating to a machine in general.

LLMs have no skin in the game.

Why I'm Taking Events on the Road This Fall I last interviewed for a job in 2007. Since then, each new opportunity in my career has come through my network. People who knew when I was ready for something new, who could vouch for my work, who sa...

We'll be hosting small regional ruby conferences in Chicago, Atlanta, and New Orleans in September. Tell your friends!

www.xoruby.com/blog/why-i-a...

YouTube video by Pascal Laliberté Happy to Report, July 30, 2025

New vid!

Happy to Report:
- Advanced on Self-Serve Upgrade Flow
- Contacted someone at a local university

Also: A tour of the new design, and two new goals for next week.
#happytoreport

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We're out of Zero Interest Rates, which is great,
but the low-cost vibe is still alive.

The tweaks Apple is making to make Liquid Glass feel just right seem, to us who are watching, like a dead-end uphill mess.

That is, until you remember that they made the only trackpad integration that’s worth using. (Still? Haven’t kept up on the Windows/Chrome OS side.)

YouTube video by SmarterEveryDay I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308

In this Smarter Every Day video, Dustin shares this on U.S. manufacturing capacity:

(Paraphrasing) "We used to make the foreign country operate machines we invented. Now, it's the opposite."

Let's remember this with LLMs and dev work.

AI is an offshoring event.

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The Smallest Urgency You have to produce a large amount of revenue by the end of the month, or else.A client just sent back a large list of changes, just before the deadline.An enormous bill came in from the cloud hosting...

If you're going to be creative anyway, might as well make it an urgency.

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I liked it. Your presentation was dense, as I expected.

Appreciated getting a few tips from you that are a bit of a relief for scale anxiety. For example, I didn't know about ANY + ARRAY (even if it's in the Rails guides).

There are so many things I _feel_ are dangerous/inadequate for scale in AR.

With LLMs making leetcode and other whiteboard problems trivial, software hiring IMO should shift towards establishing taste, which LLMs absolutely do not have.

"What do you hate about ActiveRecord? What would you change about Rails if you could?" Review this PR, etc.

A lot of people are a fan of:
"Practice over theory"

I’m a fan of:
"Theory put to practice"

✌️

Just bought a domain.

It's a .app

I am relieved I got it.

Why didn't I buy it before?

TIM!

So many hours tweaking how the ball would fall, how the balloon would close the scissors on its way up.

Derek Sivers on Mastery

Telling as a Service It would be a shame if you didn’t tell others about what you’re building.It would also be a shame if you told others when it’s not the right time.

Telling us about the thing you're building, at just the right time, in just the right way, to those of us who want to make progress...

...is an act of service.
everyonewantsprogress.com/0075-telling...

From the webdev community on Reddit: I spent 18 months building a design system that makes UI's feel "oddly satisfying." Now it's open source! Explore this post and more from the webdev community

Yo this is cool

www.reddit.com/r/webdev/com...

@chainlift.bsky.social

I didn't really know about the active-hash gem before and now it has become one of my favorite gems. If you need an ActiveRecord kind of class but not backed up by a database table. For example Countries or in my case a list of integrations.

You can simply add them in a yml file like this.

Colbert’s cancellation is a dark warning CBS’s decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.

CBS cancelled the Late Show with Stephen Colbert just days after he criticized the $16 bribe the network paid to Trump. Here’s why “Colbert’s cancellation is a dark warning”. [motherjones.com]

This sounds kinda fantastic

Job well done Stephen.
Job well done!

I appreciate most his modelling of how to act when things are scary:

"Do you know what I like about comedy? You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid."