Hacker News: glacials

New comment by glacials in "Show HN: Weave – A tool to track how your habits work together"

glacials — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 21:52:11 +0000

This reminds me of Exist[1], although their inputs are mostly automatic and so the data quickly becomes overwhelming and tautological ("you spend more time active when you work out for a longer distance"). Glad to see another entry into this space.

[1]: https://exist.io

The Cookie Website

glacials — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 21:42:32 +0000

Article URL: https://thecookie.website/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41082571

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by glacials in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024)"

glacials — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:47:59 +0000

Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Go, Python, TypeScript

Résumé/CV: https://twos.dev/cv.html

Email: ben@twos.dev

Ten years in the industry. I was #90 at Twitch and grew it to its $1B Amazon acquisition. I've been successful backend and full stack.

I have a special eye for increasing developer velocity. I thrive in small companies with teammates who trust each other, where I can wear a lot of hats and have autonomy to solve pressing issues without much process.

New comment by glacials in "A crazy experience losing Apple earbuds in a remote town in Chile"

glacials — Thu, 30 May 2024 21:17:57 +0000

This is an amazing story and a clever innovation. I cannot fathom why the author is so upset about it.

Wholesome Great Filters

glacials — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 23:42:16 +0000

Article URL: https://twos.dev/filters.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40018786

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by glacials in "Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking"

glacials — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 01:19:27 +0000

I'm not the dev, but based on the source it looks like Mongo: https://github.com/vasanthv/webtag/blob/main/server/collecti...

New comment by glacials in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)"

glacials — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 01:01:44 +0000

Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Ruby on Rails, Python, TypeScript

Résumé/CV: https://twos.dev/cv.html

Email: ben@twos.dev

Ten years in industry. I was #90 at Twitch and grew it to its $1B Amazon acquisition. I've been successful backend and full stack. Very experienced in Go and Ruby on Rails.

New comment by glacials in "Make Invalid States Unrepresentable"

glacials — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 22:08:04 +0000

One place I'm surprised I don't see this more is sets. In my experience arrays are used without a second thought when any collection type is needed.

New comment by glacials in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)"

glacials — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:35:46 +0000

Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Ruby on Rails, Python, TypeScript

Résumé/CV: https://twos.dev/cv.html

Email: ben@twos.dev

Ten years in industry. I was #90 at Twitch and grew it to, through, and past its $1B Amazon acquisition. I've been successful in backend and low-JS full stack roles, including bleeding edge HTML/CSS. Very experienced in Go and Ruby on Rails, experienced in TypeScript and Python, polyglot otherwise.

I have a special eye for, and experience in, increasing developer velocity and improving developer experience internally and externally. This includes writing documentation, automating its publishing, building command-line tools to capture complex flows, building CI/CD, writing and speeding up tests, building service templates and service generators, and more.

Have spun up and maintained infrastructure in Terraform, AWS CloudFormation and CDK, Docker, and Kubernetes.

I thrive in small (< 100) companies with teammates who trust each other, where I can wear a lot of hats and have a lot of autonomy to solve the most pressing issues without much process. I do however recognize the importance of measuring outcomes and I am self-sufficient at doing so.

Effective English

glacials — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 19:40:46 +0000

Article URL: https://twos.dev/english.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39082149

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by glacials in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)"

glacials — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 21:02:02 +0000

- Location: Seattle, WA.

- Remote: Remote or onsite in Seattle.

- Willing to relocate: Not willing.

- Technologies: Go, Ruby / Ruby on Rails, Python, TypeScript, AWS. Interested in Haskell and Elixir.

- Résumé/CV: https://twos.dev/cv.html

- Email: ben@twos.dev

- Website: https://twos.dev/

I'm a staff/principal level Software Engineer, full-stack for low/no-JS or backend otherwise. I've worked "in the open" a lot so bonus points for working on open source and/or community management. I have a lot of experience moving monolithic apps to microservices, from the Rails → Go move at Twitch.

Ignore Individuals. Fix Systems

glacials — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:56:52 +0000

Article URL: https://twos.dev/systems.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38548706

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Surprises in North China

glacials — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 21:35:59 +0000

Article URL: https://twos.dev/china.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38408635

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Japanecdotes: Anecdotes from Time Living in Japan

glacials — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 03:24:25 +0000

Article URL: https://jm.dev/japanecdotes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36938493

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by glacials in "Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?"

glacials — Wed, 31 May 2023 06:09:37 +0000

Can you share some source material for improved happiness?

New comment by glacials in "Infinitely Nested Window Management"

glacials — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 14:21:37 +0000

macOS’s new Stage Manager feature does this.

New comment by glacials in "Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?"

glacials — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 05:24:39 +0000

A desk mat, like the ones by Nordik [1]. It's like a giant mouse pad that also goes under your keyboard.

I can't stand the size of normal mouse pads and I can't go without one because the years wear on my desk. Plus it also serves as coaster, art, and "clean zone" that my cats know to avoid. You can get them custom printed with anything you want.

[1]: https://amzn.to/3ZyXiU5

90 > 100

glacials — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 21:21:15 +0000

Article URL: https://twos.dev/90.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35348067

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by glacials in "Call yourself titles"

glacials — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 04:42:36 +0000

I've found a good middle ground is to call myself an "amateur photographer", "amateur interior designer", etc.

It leaves room for both motivation and humility.

New comment by glacials in "Lessons from a Pessimist: Make Your Pessimism Productive"

glacials — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:20:26 +0000

The word that describes what the author calls destructive pessimism is defeatism—an expectation and acceptance of failure. This itself causes failure.