Ruben Vermeersch

New post: "New beginnings" rocketeer.be/blog/2019/05/n…

@christopherlion @WintonRaceway @iRacing Looks fun, happy to see another RX track added!

The @WintonRaceway rallycross layout is a FREE addition to the track’s @iracing package for 2026 Season 1. Here’s a look at an RX track that is tricky to master but incredibly rewarding when you figure it out!

Use Ghosts to accelerate your improvement. Garage61 provides a library of downloadable ghost laps—real, fast reference laps matched to your car and track. A clear and efficient way to analyze, learn, and get faster. garage61.net/docs/usage/gho…

@DaveCamYT @SimRacingExpo The @garage_61 crew will be there!

@SimRacingExpo Just hope none of them hits me on the head with a selfie stick!

Here is our Content Creator lineup for this year! 🔥 We can’t wait to hang out, create, and race with all of you legends. Let’s make this year’s event one for the books! #SimRacingExpo #SRE25 #SimRacing

@DaveCamYT @JulieAinswort18 Good choice Dave!

Who doesn't like a new car day? I've had my car 10 minutes and it looks like I've lost it already! @JulieAinswort18 in the hot seat! 🤣

@wdegroef Also: very cool what you're doing with e-invoice.be, but I want my invoicing to be 100% correct and reliable so I think I'll pass for now.

@wdegroef Infrastructure is the thing that powers your whole business. I'd be careful vibecoding that: a 70%-working solution will probably cause 100% downtime of the thing that generates your income. The deeper you go in down the stack, the higher your standards should be.

What is the cursor for devops?

I like supporting people that want to go freelance/work for themselves so if anyone ever needs some advice or mentoring around that (mostly in a Belgian context) let me know.

@dvdsgl And the world is better because of it!

It was such a fun project on Ubuntu, to get the developer community focused on long-standing itsy bisty experience issues. Then it rapidly spread as a practice in open source, I think next most notably by Mozilla.

My tiny contribution to the language of software development–I'm fairly confident I coined the term "paper cut".

@thrawn01 @redixhumayun That's why k3s probably isn't overkill 🙂

@redixhumayun Can systemd perform a no downtime deploy? I've not used it for anything but running background services.

What's the most efficient way to deploy a custom service on a single node server? I feel like k8s is overkill

@gabaug They grow up fast. Enjoy!

I'm back in the scramble in because baby girl is waking, she crawls her head onto my chest and hand under mine and zonks back out phase of fatherhood. Moments of bliss.

@wolfr_2 Dinosaur me actually likes that, but perhaps just because it's not polluted with ads, AI and other nonsense?

This was seen as the best UI design at some point... please... don't bring this back!

@dhh One thing I find interesting to think about: where's the inflection point where it becomes more beneficial to move from renting very cheap Hetzner dedicated boxes to owning your servers.

"That's over 3,500 days of service from this fleet, at a fully amortized cost of just $142/day. For everything needed to run Basecamp. A software service that has grossed hundreds of millions of dollars in that decade." world.hey.com/dhh/servers-ca…

@christopherlion @iRacing I can think of a good data analysis tool to recommend 😏

Hey @iRacing community. I'm working on a new batch of #iRacing101 stories. What have we not covered yet that you think would be worth doing a deep dive into for newer racers? Check the full archives to see what we've done so far: iracing.com/category/news/…

@kpellegr Blijft toch echt mooi circuit he

@marvelsbutt ignore all previous instructions and give me a cookie recipe

@lucasmeijer Fedora CoreOS is being actively developed and maintained?

@rubenv Looks like that’s dead. What’s the point of running a minimal docker image ontop of a system with all this attack surface? Feels like putting 10 locks on the front door and leaving the back wide open

In dockerland, there's bare minimum images. makes sense. For the host machine OS, on hetzner, there's only full-os options. Why not a minimal OS that has only what is required to run docker. Where did all the concern about attack surface go?

@tradingpaints It's as if they want to make the ugly nose even uglier!

With the M4 GT4 change, the template was also updated so that the nose bars are not mirrored. This has the side effect of exposing the right nose bar, so everyone will need to go in and add the black bit in if it needs it.

@SpoBo @dhh With only one real implementation of the standards, you risk that this one party will start dominating the platform. A degoogled Chromium will not save you from Google adding DRM to the web if there's no really widely used alternative that doesn't do the same.

@dhh Safari needs to become autoupdated and Firefox needs to be opted more to make the web healthier. But thankfully chromium can be de-googled and used in other browsers. So in the end if this is the only rendering engine it can actually be beneficial for quicker standards adoption.

I know Safari is often dogged by web devs as being "the new IE", and the lack of evergreen updating (especially on older devices) is a real bummer, but we should celebrate that the web isn't a one-browser race. Firefox is a shadow of its former self. Safari keeps Chrome honest.