Hacker News: jameswatling

New comment by jameswatling in "Ask HN: How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health?"

jameswatling — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:51:00 +0000

Kiln just opened in St George, I have a dedicated desk, but they have non dedicated desks for I think $150 or so, and has more amenities (and free snacks/coffee to save a little on food costs)

New comment by jameswatling in "Ask HN: How do I escape homelessness after rebuilding my mental health?"

jameswatling — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:53:46 +0000

Hey, so I live in St George.... crazy small world - my email is on my profile.

I work at the new Kiln co working space (they also have hotdesks), send me an email and let's connect

New comment by jameswatling in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)"

jameswatling — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:01:08 +0000

Wonderschool | Engineering Manager, Full Stack Engineers, Backend Engineers (Typescript/Elixir) | SF Bay Area| https://www.wonderschool.com

Wonderschool is dedicated to supporting early childhood educators and center owners with software solutions that simplify operations, enhance family connections, and optimize the learning experience for young children. Our platform empowers providers to focus on education while seamlessly managing their day-to-day administrative tasks.

Open roles:

Engineering Manager [Bay Area Required]: Lead diverse engineering teams, oversee technical execution, and foster innovation within a collaborative and mission-driven environment. Full Stack Engineers: Build and improve scalable solutions across the full stack, contributing to meaningful enhancements in our product suite. Backend Engineers (Typescript/Elixir): Work on a variety of projects, using modern backend technologies to develop and maintain robust systems that support our core platform capabilities. Tech stack: Elixir, Ruby on Rails, Typescript, React Native, GraphQL, Phoenix LiveView, GCP, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Tailwind CSS.

Why Wonderschool? Competitive compensation packages, flexible working conditions, a mission-focused culture, and a dedicated team making an impact in the early education sector. We provide a supportive environment where professional growth is encouraged and achievements are celebrated.

Join Wonderschool and contribute to reshaping how early childhood education is managed and delivered.

Apply at: https://www.wonderschool.com/careers or email your resume to james.watling@wonderschool.com.

New comment by jameswatling in "Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code"

jameswatling — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:51:26 +0000

That was a fun experience, quick maths to get the code

Why A16Z-backed Wonderschool is acquiring EarlyDay

jameswatling — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:14:30 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/28/why-a16z-backed-wonderschool-is-acquiring-earlyday/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852612

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jameswatling in "Google OAuth Login Down?"

jameswatling — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:09:22 +0000

Seems like things are "working", just super slow and timeouts, so maybe they're above some threshold for making a SLA reportable outage

New comment by jameswatling in "Google OAuth Login Down?"

jameswatling — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:07:40 +0000

This is the same issue we're having

New comment by jameswatling in "Tell HN: Meta Quest is unusable without Meta server running"

jameswatling — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:57:00 +0000

Phew, good thing I wasn't driving at the same time! /s

New comment by jameswatling in "Google OAuth Login Down?"

jameswatling — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:53:13 +0000

My outlandish theory is foreign election interference. Not a tin foil hat guy, but being Super Tuesday the thought crossed my mind

New comment by jameswatling in "Google OAuth Login Down?"

jameswatling — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:52:26 +0000

More logical than my tin foil hat of today being Super Tuesday and an ideal time for a foreign adversary to instil election integrity fears in the US

Google OAuth Login Down?

jameswatling — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:47:18 +0000

Known outages for Meta products, all our google oauth also running into 500s suddenly and weird timeouts on other google services

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39604935

Points: 26

# Comments: 23

New comment by jameswatling in "Meta outage"

jameswatling — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:30:22 +0000

We just started having issues with google oauth too....

New comment by jameswatling in "[dead]"

jameswatling — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:09:37 +0000

This post seems like a poor attempt at "organic" interest in the topic

New comment by jameswatling in "Ask HN: What steps would you take to go from a $130k/yr SWE position to $210k/yr"

jameswatling — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:58:43 +0000

Can you provide more context? Remote? If not which desired location? Background and skills? Do you want to be an IC or go more on the manager track?

Generic answer: change jobs, go above and beyond in interviews, network, work on public facing projects, respond to those pesky linkedin recruiters and see where it takes you

New comment by jameswatling in "You can hire a Guinness World Records consultant to help set or break a record"

jameswatling — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:33:53 +0000

https://archive.is/wOXvk

New comment by jameswatling in "[dead]"

jameswatling — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:32:20 +0000

Working from West Coast, US

Ask HN: Looking for Rails developers who moved to Elixir

jameswatling — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:31:22 +0000

I have been a Full Stack Ruby on Rails developer primarily for the last 10+ years.

I have to say the allure and influence of Rails on Elixir/Phoenix is very high.

For those of you that were Ruby/Rails developers in a past life and moved onto Elixir, how has process been?

1. Job Availability 2. Learning Curve 3. Speed of development 4. Developer Experience 5. Anything notable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38437832

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jameswatling in "The official Rails job board is live"

jameswatling — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:26:34 +0000

Any plans to add a "looking for a job" feature. ie I am a rails developer and want to host my equivalent profile on the site?

New comment by jameswatling in "GitHub is investigating an incident with Pull Requests, Issues and Webhooks"

jameswatling — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:25:26 +0000

It took them a while to flag also. My team ran into issues at least 80 minutes before this was posted

New comment by jameswatling in "Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?"

jameswatling — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 18:41:03 +0000

This is awesome, and am so tempted to try.... one question, how long did it take to physically complete this! Also I know you had to "repair" the string a few times, but is this a 2mi single thread?