Hacker News: travisl12

New comment by travisl12 in "TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]"

travisl12 — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:48:55 +0000

I can’t agree enough. It’s sort of like those massive paintings recreated in CSS. They are a neat achievement, yet sort of reveals a vast emptiness that exists within the author.

New comment by travisl12 in "Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time"

travisl12 — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 21:50:38 +0000

My solution is pretty easy to this problem: I don't.

New comment by travisl12 in "Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices"

travisl12 — Mon, 18 May 2020 21:07:33 +0000

Yeah severance is pretty good. I'll try to get a gig quick and then push off the start date a bit.

New comment by travisl12 in "Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices"

travisl12 — Mon, 18 May 2020 21:06:48 +0000

The info about layoffs leaked about 3 weeks ago, which was messed up.

Overall though the severence is healthy, so I'll be plenty ok while I find another gig.

New comment by travisl12 in "Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices"

travisl12 — Mon, 18 May 2020 21:01:12 +0000

Find me at http://redundantrobot.com/

I'm down to see what you have going on there.

New comment by travisl12 in "Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices"

travisl12 — Mon, 18 May 2020 21:00:40 +0000

Changes in life are an opportunity and that's always something to get excited about. Full steam ahead!

New comment by travisl12 in "Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices"

travisl12 — Mon, 18 May 2020 20:59:44 +0000

I'll be ok, but your thoughts really are appreciated. Nice words from nice people are always a welcomed thing.

New comment by travisl12 in "Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices"

travisl12 — Mon, 18 May 2020 20:57:12 +0000

It's a long tail starting back in the days of my great great great great grandfather. Back in the mother country he was tired of the same old same old and decided to travel to the New World to start anew. 300 years later I was born here :)

New comment by travisl12 in "Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices"

travisl12 — Mon, 18 May 2020 20:50:30 +0000

www.redundantrobot.com

New comment by travisl12 in "Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices"

travisl12 — Mon, 18 May 2020 20:50:21 +0000

www.redundantrobot.com

New comment by travisl12 in "Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices"

travisl12 — Mon, 18 May 2020 20:50:03 +0000

www.redundantrobot.com

New comment by travisl12 in "Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices"

travisl12 — Mon, 18 May 2020 18:03:52 +0000

Contact me on Google Wave.

New comment by travisl12 in "Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices"

travisl12 — Mon, 18 May 2020 16:13:34 +0000

I was let go today from Uber. If anyone is looking for a Frontend/Fullstack with 7yoe. I'm here :)

Find me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/travis-lawrence-b77400b8/

New comment by travisl12 in "School districts take unplanned plunge into online learning"

travisl12 — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 04:57:39 +0000

My wife is a 3rd grade teacher in the Bay Area and to hear stories from the other side of the online classroom. She's perfectly internet savvy and there are a lot of online parent/teacher communication platforms that she uses. Normally, being a teacher is pretty damn stressful and the hours are looong. But this has taken a step into a new direction of anxiety and stress.

Adding to the list of things that a teacher already is responsible with doing is Tech Support. Because now parents are emailing her stupid questions that are easily google-able about Google Classroom.

* "How do I upload a picture?"

* "Can you email me the google classroom link again?"

* "What's the login for my kid? (omg this question)"

* "Where's the thing to click on? (fuuuuuuu.....)"

The district is now starting to have a minimum of 8 mandatory teaching sessions to parents on how these things work. EIGHT.

We cannot translate online classrooms 1:1 with the real thing. I wish the district would take a breath and approach this with a little bit more understanding that this is a whole new ballgame. I know parents need their kids to be somewhat occupied during the day (I have 2 kids under 4 so I get it), but overall it's not very pleasant for teachers.

New comment by travisl12 in "Hard Startups"

travisl12 — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:28:58 +0000

> An easy startup is a headwind; a hard startup is a tailwind...

Is that backwards? Wouldn't a tail wind represent "easier"?

New comment by travisl12 in "I Miss the Old Internet"

travisl12 — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:56:43 +0000

I miss the old internet, but if I had the magic to go back to 1997 to browse for a bit I'd be over it in about 30 minutes. Just like I'd be over Mac OS System 7.5 in about 10 minutes, or my SNES, or Darkwing Duck, and on and on.

...member chewbacca

New comment by travisl12 in "Which Way Do You Run?"

travisl12 — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:14:02 +0000

I naively thought this would be an article discussing overpronation and supination.

New comment by travisl12 in "Show HN: APOD Chrome Extension by The Trav"

travisl12 — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 17:04:23 +0000

Over the past few years I've built out this Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) Chrome/FF extension that shows an APOD as your new tab page. Just recently I've overhauled it with React to try and reign in the features I had built in Vanilla JS originally. Anyway, with these updates I've added a service worker to make it load as fast as possible and in case there are others here that really love the APOD I wanted to share.

Here's the Firefox version: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/apod-by-the-t...

Show HN: APOD Chrome Extension by The Trav

travisl12 — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 17:03:10 +0000

Article URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/astronomy-picture-of-the/aedpginojmhafbemcoelnppdcmlfjcdj

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20919960

Points: 2

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New comment by travisl12 in "Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer"

travisl12 — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 18:32:07 +0000

I'm impressed he only had one day full of googling for Date stuff in js. I easily could fill a week with such queries.