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OmbuLabs.ai
Company blog · ombulabs.com/blogaiprogramming
OmbuLabs.ai is the company blog at ombulabs.com, writing about ai and programming. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “An MVP in Less Than a Month: The Landing Page MVP”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post about upgrading the GitHub Rails monolith from Rails 3.2 to 5.2 across two major versions. The comment uses it to argue that such an upgrade is a large undertaking.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Philadelphia AI and ML consultants offering training, workshops, adoption support, custom LLM applications, and generative AI solutions for organizations.
Most-linked posts?
- An MVP in Less Than a Month: The Landing Page MVP2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-08
What Hacker News says?
I can't agree with you. Can you name a framework where upgrading a very large (several hundred thousand LOC or more) application across 6+ years, two major versions, and multiple minor versions is not a significant undertaking? FWIW at my former employer we had a huge Rails monolith with something like 500K+ lines of code. On top of that, our genius architects had split it up into a very nonstandard Rails architectu…
Comment linking /blog/tags/upgrades
on “Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2”Submitted Latin America's Stripe competitor (Mercado Pago) API Security Hole as a story · 24 points
HN discussionOmbu Labs ( https://www.ombulabs.com ) | Software Engineer | Philadelphia, PA; Buenos Aires (ARG); or REMOTE | Full Time Ombu Labs, The Lean Software Boutique, is hiring a full-stack software engineer to work on our products and consulting projects. What we do: We aim to write less software. We take YAGNI to the next level. We apply lean principles to our own products and our client's products. Why us: You will be o…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)”Submitted Standardize Getting Started: The Need for ./bin/start as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm glad this topic if finally getting the attention it needs. I really like Google's paper on technical debt: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10109339 I wrote an article with a summary of the key insights in that paper: https://www.ombulabs.com/blog/tech-debt-maturity-model.html Hopefully, the more articles like this one, the more non-technical managers will finally give a shit about technical debt?
Comment linking /blog/tech-debt-maturity-model.html
on “Technical debt is an invisible $1.52T problem”Submitted An MVP in Less Than a Month: The Landing Page MVP as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLocation: Philadelphia, PA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Cuba, Rack, Javascript, Node.js, Backbone.js, React.js, Angular.js, iOS, Android, HTML, CSS, AWS, Heroku. Résumé/CV: https://www.ombulabs.com/#clients Github: https://github.com/ombulabs Blog: https://ombulabs.com/blog Email: hello@ombulabs.com
Comment linking /blog
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2017)”Submitted The Joys and Woes of Pair Programming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Hotwire as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Landing Page MVP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ten Steps to Evaluate a Rails Project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why using Rails' default_scope is a terrible idea as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Response times and what to make of their percentile values as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The L in Solid as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for Writing Fast Rails: Part 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Bumbler to reduce runtime dependencies in your Rails application as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Hunt Down a Slow Request in Rails as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 7 Days Open Source Challenge: Contribute to Open Source for 7 Days Straight as a story · 1 points
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