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

givan — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:06:17 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Worldwide (EU-based) | Full Stack Developer PHP Developer Location: Romania

Remote: Yes (worldwide)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, HTML, SCSS, Bootstrap, Linux

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/givanz/

Email: givanz@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/givanz

Experienced Full Stack Developer, developing Open Source Vvveb CMS https://www.vvveb.com and VvvebJS page builder.

New comment by givan in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

givan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:19:46 +0000

Most WordPress plugin vulnerabilities would not exist if Wordpress would expose only a public folder to the web without including `wp-content/plugins/`.

This would avoid plugin scanning and direct plugin code execution.

For the CMS I'm developing, Vvveb CMS, no plugin code is exposed, everything passes through the only exposed php file `public/index.php`

New comment by givan in "EmDash: A Fresh Take on CMS"

givan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:04:54 +0000

I'm developing Vvveb CMS and WordPress is very inspiring, the standard to which everyone compares in the industry.

One of the reason WordPress is so ubiquitous is that it's very easy to host and it doesn't need advanced technical knowledge.

PHP hosting is very cheap and WordPress installation is very easy, it's just one click in some hosting dashboards.

The Javascript ecosystem is complex, you need to be a developer and have access to command line to install most Javascript CMSes and need a vps or more expensive hosting.

New comment by givan in "Why vampires live forever"

givan — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:56:39 +0000

I repeat, just like clocks, people can be of different makes. No matter how hard a man tries, even if he is put in a glass case, when his time comes the spring runs out. And once the mechanism is dead, no matter how clean and whole it is, no matter how much you try to warm it up, blow on it—if the spiral spring is missing—the man is gone.

Yet I can do something to live longer. Thoughts have a definite length. I can unwind them very fast—then the end comes quickly, or I may unwind them slowly, and the end will come more slowly. When we live as we do we think mechanically and quite unnecessarily. We very seldom think when necessary. So we could be much more economical.

The secret is very simple. If any man really succeeds in understanding and learning to spend only as much as is necessary he will be able to economize a great deal of energy.

Now look inwards at your thinking. You will see that you think all the time, associations flow on unceasingly. Now if you begin to think intentionally, you will find that you think very slowly, whereas when thoughts run on by themselves they flow very fast.

Compare the two states: one, when our thoughts flow fast and the other when they flow slowly. For example, we are impatiently waiting for someone. We are all the time occupied with the thought—when will the person we are waiting for come? What happened to him, why isn’t he here? Has he had an accident? It seems to us we have been waiting an hour at least. We look at the watch and find it has been only five minutes.

Another example. You sit in a comfortable chair. You are resting, nothing worries you. For the moment you do not want to think of anything important. Your thoughts flow slowly. It seems to you that you have been sitting thus for five minutes, whereas you sat for a whole hour.

Time is our thoughts. We can measure time by our thinking. If we spend many thoughts, time seems long to us. If we spend few thoughts—time seems short. Time stands in direct ratio to the flow of associations.

Just as in the thinking center, associations go on in other centers also. The secret of prolonging life depends on the ability to spend the energy of our centers slowly and only intentionally. Learn to think consciously. This produces economy in the expenditure of energy. Don’t dream.

Gurdjieff's Early Talks 1914-1931

New comment by givan in "Show HN: HyTags – HTML as a Programming Language"

givan — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:38:59 +0000

HTML can be so powerful when used as DOM instead of plain string as is sadly used in most html templating engines on the backend, one example of DOM template engine built by myself https://github.com/givanz/vtpl

New comment by givan in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2026)"

givan — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:12:08 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Worldwide (EU-based) | Full Stack Developer PHP Developer

Location: Romania

Remote: Yes (worldwide)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, HTML, SCSS, Bootstrap, Linux

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/givanz/

Email: givanz@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/givanz

Experienced Full Stack Developer, developing Open Source Vvveb CMS https://www.vvveb.com and VvvebJS page builder.

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

givan — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:10:41 +0000

Location: Romania

Remote: Yes (worldwide)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, HTML, SCSS, Bootstrap, Linux

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/givanz/

Github: https://github.com/givanz

Email: givanz@gmail.com

Experienced Full Stack Developer, developing Open Source Vvveb CMS https://www.vvveb.com and VvvebJS page builder.

New comment by givan in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2025)"

givan — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:05:58 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Worldwide (EU-based) | Full Stack Developer PHP Developer

Location: Romania

Remote: Yes (worldwide)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, HTML, SCSS, Bootstrap, Linux

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/givanz/

Email: givanz@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/givanz

Experienced Full Stack Developer, developing Open Source Vvveb CMS https://www.vvveb.com and VvvebJS page builder.

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

givan — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:04:55 +0000

Location: Romania

Remote: Yes (worldwide)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, HTML, SCSS, Bootstrap, Linux

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/givanz/

Github: https://github.com/givanz

Email: givanz@gmail.com

Experienced Full Stack Developer, developing Open Source Vvveb CMS https://www.vvveb.com and VvvebJS page builder.

New comment by givan in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2025)"

givan — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:33:00 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Worldwide (EU-based) | Full Stack Developer PHP Developer Location: Romania Remote: Yes (worldwide)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, HTML, SCSS, Bootstrap, Linux

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/givanz/

Email: givanz@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/givanz

Experienced Full Stack Developer, developing Open Source Vvveb CMS https://www.vvveb.com and VvvebJS page builder.

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

givan — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:32:40 +0000

Location: Romania Remote: Yes (worldwide)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, HTML, SCSS, Bootstrap, Linux

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/givanz/

Github: https://github.com/givanz

Email: givanz@gmail.com

Experienced Full Stack Developer, developing Open Source Vvveb CMS https://www.vvveb.com and VvvebJS page builder.

New comment by givan in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2025)"

givan — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 18:52:18 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Worldwide (EU-based) | Full Stack Developer PHP Developer Location: Romania

Remote: Yes (worldwide)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, HTML, SCSS, Bootstrap, Linux

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/givanz/

Email: givanz@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/givanz

Experienced Full Stack Developer, developing Open Source Vvveb CMS https://www.vvveb.com and VvvebJS page builder.

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

givan — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 18:51:54 +0000

Location: Romania Remote: Yes (worldwide)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, HTML, SCSS, Bootstrap, Linux

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/givanz/

Github: https://github.com/givanz

Email: givanz@gmail.com

Experienced Full Stack Developer, developing Open Source Vvveb CMS https://www.vvveb.com and VvvebJS page builder.

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

givan — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:56:19 +0000

Location: Romania

Remote: Yes (worldwide)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, HTML, SCSS, Bootstrap, Linux

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/givanz/

Github: https://github.com/givanz

Email: givanz@gmail.com

Experienced Full Stack Developer, developing Open Source Vvveb CMS https://www.vvveb.com and VvvebJS page builder.

New comment by givan in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2025)"

givan — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:55:26 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Worldwide (EU-based) | Full Stack Developer PHP Developer

Location: Romania

Remote: Yes (worldwide)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, HTML, SCSS, Bootstrap, Linux

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/givanz/

Email: givanz@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/givanz

Experienced Full Stack Developer, developing Open Source Vvveb CMS https://www.vvveb.com and VvvebJS page builder.

New comment by givan in "Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates"

givan — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 19:19:40 +0000

Ad hominem

New comment by givan in "So long WordPress"

givan — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:37:13 +0000

Thanks for feedback, I fixed it.

New comment by givan in "So long WordPress"

givan — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:09:16 +0000

Thank you.

New comment by givan in "So long WordPress"

givan — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 21:33:07 +0000

Thank you.

New comment by givan in "So long WordPress"

givan — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 21:18:34 +0000

If you would like to go back on using a CMS instead of static generators please take a look at the one I'm building https://vvveb.com it shares the same principles of design and architecture simplicity with the freedom of open source.