Hacker News: RSHEPP

New comment by RSHEPP in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

RSHEPP — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:12:03 +0000

Any other engineers just living life frozen at this point. I am unable to make any life decisions because it seems like I won't have a career in the near future. I am unable to purchase a home to settle down for my family, because dad might not have a job next week. I know I am fortunate to have a job, many don't, but fuck if this career isn't the worse thing ever for my overall health and happiness.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

RSHEPP — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:48:32 +0000

It's great, I'm in my 30's, two kids, relatively high income family, but can't make any financial decisions because it feels like on a dime we will be living paycheck to paycheck all while having zero debt. It's a stress I never thought I would have.

New comment by RSHEPP in "An Honest Review of Go (2025)"

RSHEPP — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:51:12 +0000

Guess I am scared to program for real since I don't use a "real" language like Rust. What a wild statement to make.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE"

RSHEPP — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:47:56 +0000

Feels like the most important thing we can do is document it all. Save multiple encrypted copies. There is so many things worth documenting, but don't let others tell 'you' what happened. Write it down.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans"

RSHEPP — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:31:57 +0000

Make sure to opt-out before handing your ID over to the agent. They will claim you can no longer opt-out at that point, even before scanning. I had one plead to my wife to go through, because they are being watched by management and it wouldn't look good.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)"

RSHEPP — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:14:28 +0000

Rockbot | Senior Engineers (Fullstack & Ads) | Remote (US) | rockbot.com

Media platform for businesses. Music, TV, digital signage, ads. Runs in restaurants, bars, retail chains across the country. ~20 engineers, real ownership, backed by Google and UMG.

Stack: Go, Vue, GCP, Kubernetes, NATS (future) for device comms.

Fullstack: Own features end to end. 5+ yrs backend, 2+ yrs frontend, cloud infra. https://grnh.se/kf32f5fk4us Ads: Ad serving, targeting, measurement, data pipelines. Ad tech background helpful (VAST, IMA SDK, SSAI). Distributed systems, SQL. https://grnh.se/f8msf4aw4us

$150K-$210K + equity + benefits.

Questions welcome, or email ryan dot sheppard @ rockbot dot com

New comment by RSHEPP in "GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst"

RSHEPP — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:14:58 +0000

This right here - I am migrating all of our GHA to use the mise action. Makes keeping the version of Go, linters, formatters etc. for the project so much easier. Haven't added the mise.lock yet, but on the list. Now getting my small team of devs to try using mise is much harder.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"

RSHEPP — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:16:33 +0000

Rockbot | Senior Engineers (Fullstack & Ads) | Remote (US) | rockbot.com

Media platform for businesses. Music, TV, digital signage, ads. Runs in restaurants, bars, retail chains across the country. ~20 engineers, real ownership, backed by Google and UMG.

Stack: Go, Vue, GCP, Kubernetes, NATS (future) for device comms.

Fullstack: Own features end to end. 5+ yrs backend, 2+ yrs frontend, cloud infra. https://grnh.se/kf32f5fk4us

Ads: Ad serving, targeting, measurement, data pipelines. Ad tech background helpful (VAST, IMA SDK, SSAI). Distributed systems, SQL. https://grnh.se/f8msf4aw4us

$150K-$210K + equity + benefits.

Questions welcome, or email ryan dot sheppard at rockbot dot com

New comment by RSHEPP in "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"

RSHEPP — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:26:55 +0000

I am a big fan of lunchmoney, built a TUI for it with their API too.

https://github.com/Rshep3087/lunchtui

New comment by RSHEPP in "The developer role is evolving. Here’s how to stay ahead."

RSHEPP — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:53:34 +0000

this is just marketing material for github products...

New comment by RSHEPP in "How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ"

RSHEPP — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 03:48:44 +0000

I would love to figure out why I don't see this at my company. People still shipping at the same rate as before, customers bringing up more and more bugs, problems that require planning for scale are not being thought about (more bugs), zero tests still being written. All the code I am seeing generated is like one shot garbage, with no context around our system or the codebase as a whole.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?"

RSHEPP — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:44:38 +0000

She says it's both. By new stuff, it's mostly one off programs that handle small changes to the way billing or claims are handled. It sounds like they have a library of programs to start with and she extends it to fit the new edge case.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?"

RSHEPP — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:42:31 +0000

Correct. Updated.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?"

RSHEPP — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 14:06:58 +0000

My mother and her husband are COBOL devs for a US state government. She works on the health insurance side for teachers and other state employees. Think claim processing.

Lots of batch jobs running at night. Their alert system is an actual human who calls my mom when jobs fail in the middle of the night.

It's high paying for the city they live in, but not high paying for software development. They will both have full retirement and healthcare for life, assuming the government can fulfill it. They are both fully remote since COVID too.

She's also worked for state lottery, teacher's retirement system and DOT.

edit: she says they have a SQL database, but mostly store in IBM IMS

New comment by RSHEPP in "Fang, the CLI Starter Kit"

RSHEPP — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:48:02 +0000

Just re-wrote an internal CLI to urfave from custom, but having issues with v3 autocomplete scripts. Might just take the time to switch over to cobra and use this.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Don't just check errors, handle them gracefully (2016)"

RSHEPP — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:26:33 +0000

from my experience of late, engineers usually toss stack traces into LLMs and ask what the issue is. good error wrapping, engineers grep for one of the first errors and get to the error code right away. both ways work.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Ollama Models Atom Feed"

RSHEPP — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 01:55:33 +0000

Agreed. Using Claude Sonnet 3.5-7 with Aider produces significantly better output than any other models I have tried.

New comment by RSHEPP in "41% of Employers Worldwide Say They'll Reduce Staff by 2030 Due to AI"

RSHEPP — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:51:54 +0000

I would guess most people in leadership have no actual clue how they would replace the human in the seat with AI. They are riding the hype that the companies who provide the tools are putting out, but when it comes time to execute they don't have a plan. The steps between generated code to running in production is completely being ignored.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Fintech startup Level abruptly shuts down after burning through $27M"

RSHEPP — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:10:57 +0000

My company moved away from Level last year, but for the year we used the product, it was nothing but issues with approvals for purchases.

New comment by RSHEPP in "Boeing workers vote to strike"

RSHEPP — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:29:14 +0000

Consider valves or pressure regulators also! Lots of shared fundamentals with the flow of gases!