Jake Hash

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Open-source enthusiast Lover of nature, biking, hiking, plants & fungi, music (mostly indie), Brazil

Found a FOSS replacement for the InYourFace app to make sure I don't miss any meetings called MeetingBar. Highly recommend! Thank you to Aji (did:plc:lktvsvp6m3uwlyu6p22zph5l - looks like their bsky handle is messed up rn) for the original rec; it's been a great help 🫶 github.com/leits/Meetin...

GitHub - leits/MeetingBar: 🇺🇦 Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar

🇺🇦 Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar - leits/MeetingBar

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The docs on SolidQueue batches are… solid 😉 In addition, I wrote up this blog post to dig in a bit further on how to use batches in SolidQueue, including some code inspiration - like splitting a RubyLLM chat into parallel sub agents using batches jpcamara.com/2026/08/24/a...

A Guide to using Batches in SolidQueue

SolidQueue is the default queue system shipped with Ruby on Rails. It’s a great choice for your jobs, and works out of the box with Postgres, SQLite and MySQL. It took two and a half years, but as of ...

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Findings from this week's UN report on AI vs climate: 🌿 80-90% is not in training models, but in day-to-day use. 🌿 Generating an image is 1450⨉ more energy intensive than text, generating video much worse. 🌿 We need to monitor water and land footprint, as well as carbon. unu.edu/inweh/news/e...

Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions

By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns

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I don't understand why "it's only downhill from here" means things are going to get worse. Imagine fighting an uphill battle only to find out that it's only downhill from here

Finally, TanStack Start now supports React Server Components! Start's RSCs are a truly fetchable, cacheable and composable primitive that work with your favorite tools instead of dictating your entire architecture. Oh, and one more thing... "Composite Components" 😉 tanstack.com/blog/react-s...

React Server Components Your Way | TanStack Blog

RSCs are genuinely exciting — smaller bundles, streaming UI, moving heavy work off the client — but existing implementations force you into a one-size-fits-all pattern. What if you could fetch, cache,...

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you know how everything is made out of plastic and feels like crap but still technically works we've been headed this way with software for a while but at least we used to be embarrassed by it now people are proud of how much they don't care