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I build Tiki Tube Amps - hifi stereos inside carved tiki heads. The tikis are carved from solid logs and hollowed out before I wire up all the circuitry inside. It's all analog vac…

What editor did they use to write this code? I think this predated vi, and folks were probably using older tools they were familiar with. ed? How much of the source code could they…

> A cybertuck is a car for programmers who make too much money and want to feel like Robocop. And Rivian trucks are for folks who want to feel like Bomberman.

Payitoff | Fullstack/Backend Engineers, Devops/Sysadmin | USA | FULLY REMOTE - US Timezones only hi! We're Payitoff, and we're making a dent in Student Loans that affect 46,000,000…

Payitoff | Frontend & Backend Engineers, Devops/Sysadmin, Product Manager | USA | FULLY REMOTE hi! We're Payitoff, and we help borrowers pay off their student loans. Not through re…

Ironically, Europe has a higher concentration of Elixirists given Erlang was invented there. My hiring attitude is that paying for senior developers is cheaper in the long run give…

It sounds like you're recruiting from a pool of junior developers and convincing them to use Elixir instead of attracting folks who are already interested in the language. Not only…

Payitoff | New York, Los Angeles | Software Engineer | Full-time, Remote/Onsite, USA | https://payitoff.io Payitoff is a Student Loan API that crunches government regulations to sa…

I've been using Elixir professionally for the last ~5 years on over a dozen projects. I was originally drawn to it because of its superior support for websockets. It can trivially …

SEEKING WORK | Product, Software, and Culture Location: Los Angeles, California I'm an experienced consultant who brings product ideas to life, trains up teams on engineering proce…

Yeah exactly. I've sat in so many engineering rooms with graphs that, while colorful, end up obscuring the human users behind them. Pulse isn't trying to replace New Relic, Datadog…

I'm not sure what you mean - which page?

Thanks for the feedback! I agree that plain images aren't that compelling. I'll work on a more dynamic demonstration.

SEEKING WORK - NYC, local or remote Hi. I'm Desmond, a former accountant and erstwhile jazz musician who's been composing on computers for the last five years. I specialize in web …

Chitta makes it easy to understand your life's patterns and takes the trouble out of remembering to make entries. Capture thoughts throughout the day, see graphs of your mood over …

SEEKING WORK - NYC or remote Former accountant turned web developer- 5 years as a professional programmer grown from the soil of solving business problems. I've worked on big apps,…

SEEKING WORK, New York City, remote or onsite I've been a full-stack web developer for the last four years. Before that I worked as an accountant, a bass player, and even built poi…

The article doesn't mention that when this game is played with American children (using pieces of candy instead of money) they usually offer the least amount of candy and accept wh…

I work out of Projective Space on the Lower East Side and it's wonderful. Light and open, unlike wework, and tons of coffee shops, galleries, bars, and restaurants in the neighborh…