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gawin

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About gawin

I'm Gawin, driving technological innovation at Temper.works.

Previously CTO at True.nl, Request.network, Hubs.com, Google Ara, Phonebloks and Archive.org.

Designing organizations and technologies to realize impactful ideas.

Minimalist, passionate about focus and simplicity.

Site: https://gaw.in

Location: meet.hn/city/nl-Amsterdam

Socials: - x.com/gawin - linkedin.com/in/gawin - github.com/gawin

Interests: Minimalism, Essentialism, Startups, Technology, Psychology, Design, Sports, Health

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    Ram Dass - Be Here Now Amazing book with mind blowing illustrations about life, purpose and spirituality. Changed my life. Every time I re-read it I discover something new.

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    How does this compare with the Dasung Paperlike 25.3? Looks like the same E-ink display, but perhaps different driver? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGblzUc_Z1I https://www.indie…

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    Get a single 43” 4K monitor. Then use a window manager that allows to automatically arrange windows. I build my own using Hammerspoon on macOS. Great productivity upgrade.

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    Confirmed: Build a 30k pages site with Hugo in 53 seconds, including grabbing JSON content from Contentful and deploy on AWS S3. Took some effort to get everything under 60 seconds…

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    In the Masters of Scale podcast (1) Eric Schmidt told Reid Hoffman in september that COVID-19 is limiting his ability to do what he loves to do to the extent that he shifted his ma…

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    Home This after working remote for years, from all over the world.

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    https://miro.com works well for our remote teams

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    This is the main reason I didn’t buy one.

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    Buy a Thinkpad and install Hackintosh. I was so done with both the MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboards that I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T480s. Installed Hackintosh, running the latest…

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    Second that T480s, love it. 24GB RAM, 2TB SSD. Booting OpenBSD, macOS and Linux. Scaling on WQHD display works solid. Only drawback is that the WWAN (4G) only works under Linux and…

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    CTO with 22 years in IT, 11 years as CTO Role: CTO Location: Amsterdam, EU Remote: Yes / Optional (7 years remote experience) Relocate: Yes / Optional Résumé/CV: https://gaw.in/res…

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    Ask HN: What does your ideal job interview process look like?

    I'm curious how other Engineers feel their ideal job interview process should look like. Mainly since I'm not a fan of tools like Hackerrank and am wondering what experiences other…

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    After a 2 year long burn-out his book ‘Be Here Now’ brought back balance, a peace of mind, and incredible love and joy in my life.

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    Algolia and HackterNews (Y Combinator) are two different parties. Algolia implemented the HackerNews API (which is based on Firebase). Agolia uses their JavaScript library to enhan…

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    Yeah, I was quite surprised myself. Thought it was worth bookmarking and sharing ;)

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    Ask HN: How to privately share photos/videos from multiple devices

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    As a former Lego building champion I couldn't resist ;-) http://imgur.com/a/TjXeO

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