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BilalBudhani commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues   cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
BilalBudhani · a month ago
everything is down except HN :D
BilalBudhani commented on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server   disco.cloud/blog/how-idea... · Posted by u/jryio
BilalBudhani · 2 months ago
I recently moved a couple of Rails projects to a VPS using Dokploy and couldn't be happier. Apart from the cost savings the bump in available resources is a big plus. It is astonishing how Heroku still gets away with 512 mb memory for $25/m

background: I have been self-hosting apps on VPS for a while now but just started using a tool

BilalBudhani commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
BilalBudhani · 2 months ago
Working on https://fileboost.dev –– A Ruby on Rails Active Storage plugin that is a plug and play gem for image transformation without making any code changes.

Being a Ruby on Rails consultant, I frequently see active storage transformation becoming a bottleneck for web servers by eating up resources and making them sweat.

I built Fileboost to solve this problem for my customers. I'd love any feedback.

BilalBudhani commented on Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?    · Posted by u/unsupp0rted
BilalBudhani · 4 months ago
learning the crux of

> Hard conversations, easy life. Easy conversations, hard life

BilalBudhani commented on Ruby on Rails Audit Complete   ostif.org/ruby-on-rails-a... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
BilalBudhani · 6 months ago
I'm glad to see efforts towards improving Ruby on Rails security, it honestly keeps the framework still the most viable choice.
BilalBudhani commented on Show HN: Yaak – An open source, Git-friendly desktop API client   yaak.app... · Posted by u/gschier
BilalBudhani · 10 months ago
Yaak is great, I have been using it since the launch Greg.

I'm kind of curious why you picked Tauri over Electron for this one? I know one big benefit is smaller binaries but I'd love to know your thoughts behind this decision.

BilalBudhani commented on What's New in Ruby on Rails 8   blog.appsignal.com/2024/1... · Posted by u/amalinovic
HatchedLake721 · a year ago
I sometimes wish I had picked up Ruby/RoR instead of Node.js ~10-15 years ago.
BilalBudhani · a year ago
I have been doing Ruby on Rails for ~14 years but ~10 years ago I was confused and I picked up Nodejs thinking it is the future of software development.

It only took me a couple of months to realized what Ruby on Rails offers & the vibrant ecosystem it has. I quickly pivoted back to it and never looked back. I'm very happy with that decision.

Take that plunge and you will not regret it later.

BilalBudhani commented on Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue   github.com/janbjorge/PgQu... · Posted by u/jeeybee
bdcravens · a year ago
Good Job does the same for Rails

https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job

BilalBudhani · a year ago
Thanks for mentioning this gem (literally).

I moved my projects to GoodJob and it has been smooth sailing.

u/BilalBudhani

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