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New comment by amysox in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

amysox — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:51:42 +0000

It's hard out there for everyone in this market. I've got literal decades of experience, but I've been pounding the virtual pavement for month after month, and still nothing.

New comment by amysox in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

amysox — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:50:06 +0000

Well, Electric Minds Reborn is now online: https://electricminds.org

I will be continuing work on the new software that powers it, the Amsterdam Web Communities System. https://github.com/amysoxcolo/amsterdam

(I tried to "launch" it with a Show HN post, but it sank without a trace. I may try again, after I get back from vacation...)

Show HN: Electric Minds Reborn: pioneering virtual community, on a new platform

amysox — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:16:35 +0000

In 2001 Electric Minds was shut down by its then-owners. We, the community, raised money for a server, rebuilt it on software I wrote, and kept it alive for years.

I've now brought it back to life, complete with original discussions from 2001-2006, on a new software platform, the Amsterdam Web Communities System.

This is part history, part rebuild, and part experiment: can human-scale online communities still work today?

More on this relaunch: https://erbosoft.com/blog/2026/04/07/electric-minds-reborn/ Source of Amsterdam: https://github.com/amysoxcolo/amsterdam

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720333

Points: 1

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New comment by amysox in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

amysox — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:38:25 +0000

Can we just call him "Secretary of Death Piss-Drunk Pete Kegstand"?

New comment by amysox in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

amysox — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:01:56 +0000

  Location: Aurora, CO, USA (Denver metro area)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel
  Technologies: Python, Java, Go, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
  Résumé/CV: https://erbosoft.com/~amy/resume.pdf
  Email: amy [at] erbosoft [dot] com

I can do anything I set my mind to, and have done enough things over the course of a career to justify that statement. I want to do great things for an innovative company, and want to work with teammates interested in the same thing. If you've got something interesting, I'd like to hear about it. Seeking a senior SWE position; I have some lead experience as a developer, but was also on the board of directors of a nonprofit, which indicates additional leadership experience.

(I've been working on a major project in Go recently, to expand my horizons...it'll be deployed soon!)

New comment by amysox in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

amysox — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:41:17 +0000

This is a fantastic piece of work, AI or no!

Feature idea: For those of us who aren't familiar with The City, could you allow clicks on the image to identify specific landmarks (buildings, etc.)? Or is that too computationally intensive? I can identify a few things, but it would sure be nice to know what I'm looking at.

New comment by amysox in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

amysox — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:23:00 +0000

https://erbosoft.com/ - Includes a blog among other bits.

New comment by amysox in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

amysox — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:31:31 +0000

Or use Gitea or Forgejo and host it yourself.

New comment by amysox in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

amysox — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:29:54 +0000

Those of us who have been writing it "Micro$oft" since the 90's can now say, "I told you so."

New comment by amysox in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)"

amysox — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:05:10 +0000

  Location: Aurora, CO, USA (Denver metro area)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel
  Technologies: Python, Java, Go, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
  Résumé/CV: https://erbosoft.com/~amy/resume.pdf
  Email: amy [at] erbosoft [dot] com

Seeking a senior SWE position; I have some lead experience as a developer, but am also on the board of directors of a nonprofit, which indicates additional leadership experience.

(I've been working on a major project in Go recently, to expand my horizons...)

New comment by amysox in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

amysox — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:08:01 +0000

Couldn't you do that with Ollama + Tailscale? Minus some of the fancy bells and whistles?

New comment by amysox in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

amysox — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:06:44 +0000

I'm reviving a project I last touched in 2006, in the hopes that it might be of use today in making social networking human again.

Back in the day, after the company I worked for bought the Electric Minds community and migrated it to its own CommunityWare system, and then the company that bought our company decided to shut the platform down, I reimplemented the community platform in Java and helped rescue the community. See: https://erbosoft.com/blog/2025/09/08/electric-minds/

EMinds eventually sputtered out because of the rise of platforms like Facebook. Well, now we see what came of that. So I think there's room for a platform like the one I used to have. See: https://erbosoft.com/blog/2025/11/03/what-we-once-had-and-co...

The new system is being written in Go. I'm porting the code over without using AI, though I have used Claude to translate the old crusty HTML pages into modern HTML with Tailwind CSS. Once it gets to the functionality I had back in 2006, I'll put it up...and then see about going beyond that, including how to make it distributed and provide more interoperability.

New comment by amysox in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)"

amysox — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:10:49 +0000

  Location: Aurora, CO, USA (Denver metro area)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel
  Technologies: Python, Java, Go, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
  Résumé/CV: https://erbosoft.com/~amy/resume.pdf
  Email: amy [at] erbosoft [dot] com

Seeking a senior SWE position; I have some lead experience as a developer, but am also on the board of directors of a nonprofit, which indicates additional leadership experience.

(I've been working on a major project in Go recently, to expand my horizons...)

New comment by amysox in "Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado"

amysox — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:54:31 +0000

Expect a ketchupnado in the White House...

New comment by amysox in "We all dodged a bullet"

amysox — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:32:46 +0000

My doctor's office does the same thing. So do some financial services companies.

New comment by amysox in "We all dodged a bullet"

amysox — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:28:45 +0000

What I'd like to know is why anyone thinks it's a good idea to have this level of granularity in libraries? Seriously? A library that only contains "a utility function that determines if its argument can be used like an array"? That's a lot of overhead in dependency management, which translates into a lot of cognitive load. Sooner or later, something's going to snap...and something did, here.

New comment by amysox in "IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'"

amysox — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:27:56 +0000

The cruelty is the point.

Also, don't expect them to do anything that benefits anyone other than their billionaire cronies.

New comment by amysox in "AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API"

amysox — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:47:58 +0000

That's like the old saying that when a company starts its message with "In order to serve you better...", what they really mean is "Bend over and assume the position."

New comment by amysox in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)"

amysox — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 04:50:37 +0000

  Location: Denver, CO, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel
  Technologies: Python, Java, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
  Résumé/CV: https://erbosoft.com/~amy/resume.pdf
  Email: amy [at] erbosoft [dot] com

Seeking a senior SWE position; I have some lead experience as a developer, but am also on the board of directors of a nonprofit, which indicates additional leadership experience.

New comment by amysox in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)"

amysox — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:42:49 +0000

  Location: Denver, CO, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel
  Technologies: Python, Java, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
  Résumé/CV: https://erbosoft.com/~amy/resume.pdf
  Email: amy [at] erbosoft [dot] com

Seeking a senior SWE position; I have some lead experience as a developer, but am also on the board of directors of a nonprofit, which indicates additional leadership experience.