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Catalytic | https://catalytic.com | Chicago, IL | Fulltime ONSITE | $100K - $120+K We're building Pushbot, a platform to help teams with their recurring business processes. Join a …

Senior Chatbot Engineer | https://catalytic.com | Chicago, IL | Fulltime | $100K - $120+K We’re on a mission to elevate team operations. We are building Pushbot, a platform for bus…

Ha, yea. The Chicago region has a lot going for it but there are a few things that are really painful. Cloud tax? Brilliant Idea! Despite that, taxes and the like are modestly-size…

Catalytic | Chicago, IL and Naperville, IL ONSITE | Full-Time | http://catalytic.com/ We are a very early stage startup building a b2b product to vastly improve team and business o…

This looks promising, and is definitely addressing a real problem. Even our relatively simple product is spread across dozens of private GitHub repos (lots of micro services, share…

Chicago (remote possible) Full Time Front-End Engineer at MarkITx MarkITx is a growing startup looking for a front-end engineer to help us build web apps that will track, value and…

MarkITx -- Chicago, IL In just 18 months, we’ve built the world’s largest B2B exchange for buying and selling IT hardware (anything that goes into a datacenter). Our members includ…

Very excited! Anyone else coming from Chicago?

Chicago, IL Help MarkITx[1] build the software systems that will track, value and trade the world’s IT infrastructure. Working side-by-side with our CTO Ben Blair (that's me) and o…

Location: Chicago, IL Position: Software Engineer Company: MarkITx MarkITx is looking for talented generalists join our software engineering team. We want colleagues who are smart …

Ha, most definitely :) Our UI layer is not happy ATM. Hack hack hack...

Thanks. You end up creating that feed by the end of the walkthrough, but as you and several others point out, the payout is way too late. Based on all the useful feedback here, I'l…

Ah, yea we disabled the functionality that's not explicitly needed for the walk-through. As @tmcw suggests, "sign-up to enable this" would be much more helpful to all concerned tha…

We've got a short video at http://cerrio.com/ . It's pretty rough, but will give you a little more context if you're interested.

Seems like a good idea to formalize what everyone's already doing (though requiring PATCH implementation is a good idea). Am I reading it wrong or should the 5.7 Action section say…

If you're doing anything with the real-time web (websockets, node, twisted, etc), you need to be there. If you look through the speaker list, you'll see there's almost no fluff, ju…

Looks very useful as a github post-commit hook for catching browser-specific JavaScript errors. Is this also meant to be used for testing usability across browsers? Like browserlin…

It's hard to underestimate the impact that working in a secretive industry has on your career and tools you can build on (points 4 and 8). Trading technology is driven by a really …

Write your own blog. I know it's an unnatural experience for those of us who would rather have our heads down coding, but it's worth it for several reasons: 1. You blog should spea…