Authorium | VP of Engineering | https://authorium.com | SF Bay Area Hybrid (USA Only)
Authorium is the administrative workflow platform designed for government. We're removing the toil of how government runs with a modular no code platform. We work with some of the largest agencies including State of CA, NYC, LA, FL.
If you're passionate about technology, AI, solving complex challenges, and believe in a more responsive and efficient government, send me (Jay) a message engineering-ext@authorium.com (I'm the CEO and former CIO for the Mayor of SF)
I was thinking rails-pg-extras could output to Claude Code since it can see the actual codebase, and generate PRs.
For example, instead of just "add this index", it could see the models and relationships, figure out the right migration syntax, spot N+1 queries in controllers that are causing the slow lookups in the first place.
The workflow would be pretty clean too - let your MCP tool do what it's good at (finding the problems), then hand it off to Claude Code/Cursor/etc that understands the Rails apps to actually write the fixes.
Authorium is a public benefit corporation helping modernize government agencies through document automation (think enterprise Google Docs — smart templates, granular permissions, and workflow automation). We have product-market fit, are profitable, have zero churn, and are growing quickly. Some of the largest government agencies in the world are our customers.
We’re looking for a Product Manager to help drive the next phase of our platform. You’ll work closely with engineering and design to ship features that make complex government workflows simpler and more efficient. Experience in B2B SaaS is preferred, and familiarity with government or regulated environments is a plus.
Suggest using a service like NextDNS or Pi-hole for DYI ad blocking at the DNS/network level. I started with pi-hole but the hassle of updates and most importantly not having it available outside of my home network pushed me to a service like NextDNS which works on any network (5G, work, etc)
If you think manifest v3's adblocking is bad, DNS-based adblockers (eg. NextDNS or Pi-hole) is even worse. It can't do any filtering based on urls or elements, so any first party ads will be able to get through.
First party ads aren't evil usually tho. If someone builds their own ad infrastructure they might as well build it properly because they know it's going to be their fault if someone uploads something fishy.
In my experience only the big ad networks let you post anything. Small specialized ad platforms usually have actual moderation.
Edit:// by the way it wasn't that hard to get ads trough ublocks filters by self hosting them either. But that's rarely really evil and I never saw that abused.
to get any actual work done with DNS based blocking (ie. visiting Google ads, or their other dashboards) you quickly have to start whitelisting a ton of sites, which applies everywhere.
we have fiber in half of SF via Sonic - where there are overhead wires. The other half of SF has its utilities underground making economics more difficult.
I intend to! And to wrap it in a gem; I’ve got it partly there, but it’s a currently a mess as I ran into a bunch of “oh that didn’t actually work” problems at various points. I’ll post a link later…
Edit: Ach, sorry - it's going to be awhile, when I went to roll my own I did it inside my project, so it's not even close to being available as a gem :/
It’s a brutal reality of laying off displaced workers to free up cash to invest in tech: bank tellers for ATMs; DBAs for RDS; factory workers for robots.
This fails when the hype doesn’t meet reality - shift back to cashiers from self-service checkouts as an example.
I think we’ll see something similar in AI where many companies will have over rotated and will end up rehiring sales, marketing and other roles that we thought AI could replace.
Except in this case it is like laying off the factory workers at the robot factory before the robots are built. Investing in AI still means investing in tech people to work on AI, but that's who just got laid off...
One might be inclined to think that it is a freeing up of dead weight accumulated during the COVID hiring spree, but we also know of industry-recognized people deemed very talented, who should be prime candidates for AI investment, that were let go, so...
You'd think for all the lip-service given to how employees are their most valuable resource they would at least consider re-training. Some developers (myself included) have zero interest in LLM-hype train and would gladly take a severance package, but others would certainly want to up-skill and they already know the culture and company. Seems much cheaper than fire/hire.
Eh, the "tech people" who've been laid off range everything from graphic designers to project managers to marketing, sales, HR etc, almost none of whom have any skill overlap with the engineers, mathematicians and scientists building AI.
There are a small number of CS-degree holding software engineers or statistical expert data scientists who can pivot into AI with a fairly direct application of their existing education and experience, but the vast majority of people who were laid off from "tech companies" do not have that background.
Unrelated to ai, but I once had a so bad experience with self service checkout in one of the major supermarkets in Italy, I wrote an email to their customer service detailing all the bad things I could think of that they could improve. Worst thing is they behave in different ways whether you're on the checkouts on the left or on the right side of the wall. Many friends told me it was too much writing an email, but many had same frustrating experiences as me
Sorry for the late reply, i guess hn doesn't show replies so I sometimes check my comments on my profile to see what's up (tell me if there's a way to be notified)
They replied something in the lines of "we sent your considerations to the department concerning buyings these things. We'll let you know" and then they didn't let me know
City Innovate | https://cityinnovate.com | Senior Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE (USA only) | Full Time | $165-$215K
I’m the CEO and former CIO for the City of SF. City Innovate is a public benefit corporation helping modernize government agencies through document automation (think enterprise Google Docs - smart templates, granular permissions, workflow). We have product-market-fit, are profitable, zero churn, and are growing quickly. We have some of the largest govt agencies in the world as our customers.
We’re looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer who is comfortable with Ruby on Rails, Tailwind, and JS to build the next version of our application.
Please apply by sending an email to: remove-this-text-inculding-last-hyphen-product.leadership+hn@cityinnovate.com
Authorium is the administrative workflow platform designed for government. We're removing the toil of how government runs with a modular no code platform. We work with some of the largest agencies including State of CA, NYC, LA, FL.
If you're passionate about technology, AI, solving complex challenges, and believe in a more responsive and efficient government, send me (Jay) a message engineering-ext@authorium.com (I'm the CEO and former CIO for the Mayor of SF)