Hacker News: tholford

New comment by tholford in "Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers"

tholford — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:29:16 +0000

a golang game engine, you love to see it. well done!

New comment by tholford in "All of Namecheap Is Down"

tholford — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:35:53 +0000

Not planned, power outage in Phoenix DC:

https://www.namecheap.com/status-updates/namecheap-com-and-h...

Show HN: TLDR Equity

tholford — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:49:39 +0000

Article URL: https://tldrequity.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543940

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tholford in "GitHub is once again down"

tholford — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:01:19 +0000

Setting up a Gitea instance is approachable, especially with agent assistance.

https://about.gitea.com/

New comment by tholford in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

tholford — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:10:57 +0000

Consolidated approach based on the blog post + the comment thread here + my own dotfiles + Claude's input:

https://gist.github.com/tomholford/0aa4cdb1340a9b5411ed6eaad...

New comment by tholford in "The surreal experience of my first developer job"

tholford — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 16:43:35 +0000

Just read a good non-fiction book about con men, one of them pulls this exact ruse:

https://www.amazon.com/Cleantech-Artists-True-Vegas-Caper-eb...

New comment by tholford in "Gallery-dl – download images from several image hosting sites"

tholford — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 15:17:22 +0000

Nice work! Made something similar (and less feature-rich) using Deno:

https://github.com/tomholford/media-downloader

New comment by tholford in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2020)"

tholford — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 05:01:20 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Remote - San Francisco, Tokyo, Singapore

Need an MVP in a month? Here's a recent example:

https://tako.social

    -> Senior full-stack software engineer
    -> Domain expertise in advertising, e-commerce, and fintech
    -> 10+ years of experience at both brand name tech companies and cutting edge startups.

I can build your vision from scratch or turbocharge your existing product development. No project too big or small.

Examples of prior work include e-commerce checkout flows, social network startup prototypes, microservices and APIs, financial reporting, Intercom-style storefront Javascript widgets, behavioral tracking, analytics dashboards, internal tools, and refactoring existing legacy applications.

Proficient with Rails, React, Angular, Typescript, SCSS, Bootstrap, MySQL, Docker, AWS, Google Cloud.

Recent feedback:

    - "Indispensable"
    - "Awesome colleague... always ready to help ... positive attitude towards work is contagious ... a true team player"

Web: https://tholf.org

Contact: hn at tholf.org

GitHub: https://github.com/tomholford

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-holford

New comment by tholford in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2020)"

tholford — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 20:52:35 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Remote - San Francisco, Tokyo, Singapore

Need an MVP in a month? Here's a recent example:

https://tako.social

    -> Senior full-stack software engineer
    -> Domain expertise in advertising, e-commerce, and fintech
    -> 10+ years of experience at both brand name tech companies and cutting edge startups.

I can build your vision from scratch or turbocharge your existing product development. No project too big or small.

Proficient with Rails, React, Angular, Typescript, SCSS, Bootstrap, MySQL, Docker, AWS, Google Cloud.

Recent feedback:

    - "Indispensable"
    - "Awesome colleague... always ready to help ... positive attitude towards work is contagious ... a true team player"

Web: https://tholf.org

Contact: hn@tholf.org

GitHub: https://github.com/tomholford

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-holford

New comment by tholford in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2020)"

tholford — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 03:41:36 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Remote - San Francisco, Tokyo, Singapore

Need an MVP in a month? Here's a recent example:

https://tako.social

    -> Senior full-stack software engineer
    -> Domain expertise in advertising, e-commerce, and fintech
    -> 10+ years of experience at both brand name tech companies and cutting edge startups.

I can build your vision from scratch or turbocharge your existing product development. No project too big or small.

Proficient with Rails, React, Angular, Typescript, SCSS, Bootstrap, MySQL, Docker, AWS, Google Cloud.

Recent feedback:

    - "Indispensable"
    - "Awesome colleague... always ready to help ... positive attitude towards work is contagious ... a true team player"

Web: https://tholf.org

Contact: hn@tholf.org

GitHub: https://github.com/tomholford

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-holford

New comment by tholford in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2020)"

tholford — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:10:18 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Remote - San Francisco, Tokyo, Singapore

Need an MVP in a month? Here's a recent example:

https://tako.social

    -> Senior full-stack software engineer
    -> Domain expertise in advertising, e-commerce, and fintech
    -> 10+ years of experience at both brand name tech companies and cutting edge startups.

I can build your vision from scratch or turbocharge your existing product development. No project too big or small.

Proficient with Rails, React, Angular, Typescript, SCSS, Bootstrap, MySQL, Docker, AWS, Google Cloud.

Recent feedback:

    - "Indispensable"
    - "Awesome colleague... always ready to help ... positive attitude towards work is contagious ... a true team player"

Web: https://tholf.org

Contact: hn@tholf.org

GitHub: https://github.com/tomholford

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-holford

New comment by tholford in "Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS"

tholford — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 12:41:42 +0000

"If you need to eat a frog, do it in the morning; if you need to eat two, start with the bigger one" (paraphrased)

Covid-19 mentions on the NYTimes front page

tholford — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 01:54:34 +0000

Article URL: https://eddietejeda.github.io/nytimes-covid-frontpage/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23961640

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by tholford in "Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub"

tholford — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 10:23:14 +0000

Nice work, Simon.

Started collecting some of those examples here:

https://github.com/tomholford/awesome-profile-readmes

New comment by tholford in "I got 400 signups with a video of a product that didn’t exist"

tholford — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 09:01:01 +0000

Another potential explanation: sometimes when I dictate on iOS, the speech-to-text will spit out random capitalizations.

New comment by tholford in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2020)"

tholford — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 03:04:09 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Remote - San Francisco, Tokyo, Singapore

Need an MVP in a month? Here's a recent example:

https://tako.social

    -> Senior full-stack software engineer
    -> Domain expertise in advertising, e-commerce, and fintech
    -> 10+ years of experience at both brand name tech companies and cutting edge startups.

I can build your vision from scratch or turbocharge your existing product development. No project too big or small.

Proficient with Rails, React, Angular, Typescript, SCSS, Bootstrap, MySQL, Docker, AWS, Google Cloud.

Recent feedback:

    - "Indispensable"
    - "Awesome colleague... always ready to help ... positive attitude towards work is contagious ... a true team player"

Web: https://tholf.org

Contact: hn@tholf.org

GitHub: https://github.com/tomholford

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-holford

New comment by tholford in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2020)"

tholford — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 01:10:52 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Remote - San Francisco, Tokyo, Singapore

    -> Senior full-stack software engineer
    -> Domain expertise in advertising, e-commerce, and fintech
    -> 10+ years of experience at both brand name tech companies and cutting edge startups.

I can build your vision from scratch or turbocharge your existing product development. No project too big or small.

Proficient with Rails, React, Angular, Typescript, SCSS, Bootstrap, MySQL, AWS, Google Cloud.

Recent feedback: - "Indispensable" - "Awesome colleague... always ready to help ... positive attitude towards work is contagious ... a true team player"

Web: https://tholf.org

Contact: hn@tholf.org

GitHub: https://github.com/tomholford

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-holford

New comment by tholford in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2020)"

tholford — Sat, 02 May 2020 02:17:29 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Remote - San Francisco, Tokyo, Singapore

-> Senior full-stack software engineer -> Domain expertise in advertising, e-commerce, and fintech -> 10+ years of experience at both brand name tech companies and cutting edge startups.

I can build your vision from scratch or turbocharge your existing product development. No project too big or small.

Proficient with Rails, React, Angular, Typescript, SCSS, Bootstrap, MySQL, AWS, Google Cloud.

Recent feedback: - "Indispensable" - "Awesome colleague... always ready to help ... positive attitude towards work is contagious ... a true team player"

Web: https://tholf.org

Contact: hn@tholf.org

GitHub: https://github.com/tomholford

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-holford

New comment by tholford in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2020)"

tholford — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 04:52:30 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Remote - San Francisco, Tokyo, Singapore

-> Senior full-stack software engineer -> Domain expertise in advertising, e-commerce, and fintech -> 10+ years of experience at both brand name tech companies and cutting edge startups.

I can build your vision from scratch or turbocharge your existing product development. No project too big or small.

Proficient with Rails, React, Angular, Typescript, SCSS, Bootstrap, MySQL, AWS, Google Cloud.

Recent feedback: - "Indispensable" - "Awesome colleague... always ready to help ... positive attitude towards work is contagious ... a true team player"

Web: https://tholf.org

Contact: hn@tholf.org

GitHub: https://github.com/tomholford

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-holford

Availability Cascade

tholford — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:55:44 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_cascade

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22743092

Points: 1

# Comments: 0