I miss when the internet was fun
replyDon't worry! It's actually "Tenderlove Making," going by how the site header is constructed. Definitely a maker/hacker site, and not whatever you were thinking. Hope this allays your concern.
replyWhat’s with the fear of tender lovemaking? Not your thing?
replyYou should learn who the author is, then. Part of learning about our ecosystem.
replyYou can use this link instead: https://tenderlove.dev/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/
replyHope that helps!
It's the personal blog for a well-known Rubyist (i.e., a person who programs in the Ruby programming language). Rubyists teld to be a bit more colorful than your typical software developer (in a good way... most of the time).
replyIts the personal blog of https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tenderlove aka Aaron Patterson, core member of Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
replyYou get some context by clicking on the “(tenderlovemaking.com)” in parentheses after the title.
replyThe site is safe. It has been a trademark of Aaron Patterson a core Ruby on Rails contributor for decades.
replyThis made me laugh. I too, browse like corporate security is sitting at my desk.
replyPretty incredible how much humans can be conditioned, isn’t it?
replyIt's about OpenAI's RubyGems hack. Totally safe for work.
replyWhat kind of esthetic alteration would make you more comfortable clicking on that link?
replyFirefox has got some kind of feature to take a peek at at a link by hovering or something... Now I understand the usecase.
reply… a feature which, at least for me, is rendered almost entirely useless by massive cookie banners that always cover the entire field of view of the hover. But, surprisingly, not in this specific case.
replyFrom an infosec/networking stand point, aren’t still actively loading the site? Whether it’s in a preview window or not?
replyPresumably the browser still has to fetch the page in that case, right? From a "surveilled net traffic" perspective, how is that different than clicking the link?
replyBased on the thumbnail I think it’s actually tenderlove making dot com, though I agree with your sentiment.
replyOh but you’ll go to expert sex change dot com?
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