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Acquiring Fireside with John Nunemaker

I really enjoyed this chat with John Nunemaker about acquiring Fireside, the podcast platform originally created by the one and only Dan Benjamin.

Josh and Ben catch up with John Nunemaker after Rails World and dig into John’s recent acquisition of Fireside.fm, the podcasting platform created by Dan Benjamin. What’s next for John? In short, he’s curating some Very Good Software™.

Super interesting to see what’s possible for indie hackers in the world of finance and acquisitions.

Give it a listen!

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The Honeybadger team has been consistently supporting Ruby Central and its events for years.

If you’ve listened to a podcast or read a newsletter in the Ruby community, you’ve heard their name in sponsorship messages. They do so much for our community and I’m eternally grateful for the example they set. This is especially true when considering how big their impact is compared to their team size.

Thank you to the Honeybadger team!

—Adarsh Pandit via LinkedIn

Thanks, Adarsh! Ruby and Rails have been pivotal to our success as a small, bootstrapped team of four engineers that competes with large, venture-funded companies. It’s our privilege to support the work you do.

Great Blue Heron, taken at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in Ridgefield, WA. 📷

Not bad for a 2x teleconverter.

A great blue heron stands in shallow water, its long neck curved in an S-shape. The bird's bluish-gray plumage is visible against a blurred background of green foliage and water. Its sharp, pointed beak and keen eye are in focus, giving a side profile view of the heron's distinctive features. Tall grass stems are visible in the foreground, partially obscuring the lower part of the bird's body. Close-up portrait of a great blue heron's head and neck against a blurred green background. The bird's long, pointed beak is prominently displayed, showing intricate details of its texture. The heron's piercing yellow eye is clearly visible, surrounded by gray and white feathers. The S-curved neck showcases the bird's elegant profile and the texture of its feathers, transitioning from white at the throat to bluish-gray on the back.

Mitsuki Dazai performs the Koto (13-stringed zither) during the Moonviewing Festival (O-Tsukimi) at the Portland Japanese Garden — plus a portrait of my wife and I in the window reflection.

Full res on Glass.

A blurred, ethereal view of a person in traditional Japanese attire playing a koto (a long Japanese zither) through a reflective surface. The image has a warm, golden glow, with the musician's form softly illuminated against a darker background. A dimly lit stage with a person in traditional Japanese clothing sitting on the floor, playing a koto (a long Japanese zither). The performer is illuminated by a spotlight, creating a dramatic contrast against the dark background. A reflection of the musician is visible, giving the initial impression of two players. Red cloth is visible beneath the instrument, adding a warm accent to the scene.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ A close-up view of a person's hand and arm in a cream-colored kimono sleeve, plucking the strings of a koto. The wooden body of the instrument is visible, showing its intricate grain. A sheet of music is partially visible in the foreground. An interior view of a modern building with glass walls and copper-colored ceiling elements. Reflections and lighting create a complex, layered visual effect. A silhouette of a person is visible in the foreground, with displays and lighting fixtures illuminating a second person in the background.

gaining access to anyones browser without them even visiting a website

Good read for Arc users. Here’s the tl;dr from Arc’s response:

  • confirming they had fixed the issue
  • they are adding a feature to disable boosts in the client, preventing this vulnerability from happening on people that do not use boosts
  • they are doing an audit of their current firebase ACL rules internally
  • they have estabilished proper protocols for security issues

additionally, from internal discussions with arc they are also:

  • are fixing the mentioned privacy concerns in the v1.61.1 update
  • moving off firebase for new features and products
  • they are doing a external security audit for this version
  • are starting a bug bounty program for further vulnerabilities

I just recommended Sticker Ninja to another person who is looking for a Sticker Mule alternative. 😂

“They were quick in getting back to me with a proof and great on support so far. And, you know—not fascists.”

They’re currently limiting the number of daily orders they accept, so you need to order in the A.M. (9am PST is when they “open” the store).

It sure feels like Laravel and Rails are diverging on deployment ideology, with Taylor raising a Series A to launch a cloud platform and DHH leaving the cloud for a single server.

As I’m writing alt text for old photos, I noticed that my favorite photos are often the hardest to explain textually.

FrozenRecord looks cool:

Active Record-like interface for read only access to static data files of reasonable size.

It supports JSON and YAML out of the box, but you could i.e. extend it to support markdown files with YAML frontmatter (I bet).

No, your phone is [still] not listening to you. That’s [still] not why you got that Instagram ad.

Guy called wrong support number to complain about support wasting his life.

I realized that our old 8MP Cannon EOS Digital Rebel XT qualifies for the current Shitty Camera Challenge, so I got it cleaned up today! Last used in 2016 when my daughter was born.

A hand holding a Canon EOS camera, focused on a rose in the foreground with a blurred garden background.

man, I wish paperbacks would just include the eBook. I like to read the the physical book, but it’s useful to archive and search the eBook.

I wander downstairs to find Kaylin talking to a small bird on her windowsill. I married Mary Poppins.

A person with blue hair looks out a window at a small bird perched outside, surrounded by various items like jars, a mortar and pestle, and a phone on the windowsill. A small bird sits outside a window, visible through a screen, with a grassy and paved background.

The next debate should be an actual game of golf, no caddies.

There’s a spider under my desk so I guess I’m technically coworking today.

Google Search is an overlay

Interesting read from Mike Caulfield on the failings of the current LLM debate and what search could be.

Part of the reason the discourse around AI and the future of search is so deathly boring is that it consists of two warring factions, neither of which discuss a search experience I recognize or find compelling.

Twitter/X just keeps getting worse. I can’t write anything in their web UI because it regularly eats the draft and I have to start over.

(If you’re wondering why I bother, I have a business audience that I just can’t reach elsewhere.)

Getting a lot of Wise.com (TransferWise) phishing emails breaking through the spam filter lately. Stay safe out there.

Sending my 8yo screenshots of Know Your Meme to explain the origins of Grumpy Cat. This whole parenthood thing is starting to get good.

It was great catching up with Adam from Judoscale on FounderQuest this week.

Longtime friend of the pod Adam McCrea joins Josh and Ben to catch up and chat about his journey building Judoscale—an autoscaling service for Heroku, Render, and AWS!

Scaling Judoscale with Adam McCrea

“Reck is lightweight compared to other Ruby web frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra. We handle only the routing and middleware layers using Ruby’s built-in exception system to raise requests to the client. Flow control in Ruby has never been easier.”

rack is to reck as snake is to snek