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rubyjedi@gmail.com (Laurence A. Lee) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Aloha! I’m Laurence A. Lee — software engineer, tinkerer, and occasional opinionated blogger. Born and raised in Hawaii, educated at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (B.S. Information & Computer Science, 1996), and about as Island as it gets.

We're Back (Sort Of)

rubyjedi@gmail.com (Laurence A. Lee) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

not404.com has been a placeholder video for about five years. Time to fix that.

Saimin 2 Chat System

rubyjedi@gmail.com (Laurence A. Lee) — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In the 1980s, before the internet reached Hawaii’s living rooms, there was Saimin Chat System — an Apple II+ in Aiea running five phone lines at 300 baud. You dialed in, you got routed to whichever line was open, and you chatted in real time with whoever else happened to be connected that evening. The system operator held the title “Noodle.” Saimin 2 is that system, rebuilt for the browser.

Postman Prometheus

rubyjedi@gmail.com (Laurence A. Lee) — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Fork: github.com/rubyjedi/postman-prometheus
Upstream: postman-prometheus

The original postman-prometheus tool was useful: run a Postman collection, export the results as Prometheus metrics. One shot, one collection.

What I needed was: run several collections, continuously, all feeding into one /metrics endpoint. The idea being that your Postman collections — which already describe your API contracts — double as live health checks you can scrape with Prometheus and visualize in Grafana.

Soap4R-ng

rubyjedi@gmail.com (Laurence A. Lee) — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Repo: github.com/rubyjedi/soap4r

Back in the early 2010s, a lot of enterprise Ruby on Rails apps were neck-deep in SOAP integrations — insurance carriers, healthcare systems, EDI pipelines. The de-facto library for that was soap4r. And then it went unmaintained right as Ruby was moving past 1.8.