Hacker News: wprl

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

wprl — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:45:41 +0000

  Location: UTC−06:00 = US Central Time Zone = Columbia, MO, United States
  Remote: Preferred
  Technologies: Python, Node.js, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and many, many more
  Résumé/CV:  Available on request
  LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/willprl
  Email: william@kun.io
  Work authorization: US Citizen

  Seasoned programmer with 12+ years experience building, integrating, testing, and operating software for the enterprise, start ups, and open source projects.

  I'm here to deliver a stable, maintainable, and high-performance implementation of your vision, whether we're talking greenfield, new features, or taming failure modes.  Currently focused on remote, heads-down contract work.

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

wprl — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:56:31 +0000

  Location: United States
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, Linux, and many more
  Résumé/CV: https://kun.io/wprl-resume.pdf
  Email: guider.clam-0s@icloud.com

I am an experienced backend engineer with expertise in internal tooling and CI/CD. Preference for open source or nonprofits. Willing to travel but not to relocate.

New comment by wprl in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2024)"

wprl — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 20:56:01 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Accomplished Software Engineer

  Location: Midwest, USA
  Remote: Yes, please
  Willing to relocate: No, but willing to commute within reason
  Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, AWS, Docker, Podman
  Résumé/CV: https://kun.io/wprl-resume.pdf
  Email: william [at] kun [dot] io

I am passionate about delivering scalable, efficient, well tested software with an eye toward painless DX and automated CI/CD. A life long learner and self starter, I approach new challenges with humility and am always eager to learn new skills, share my knowledge, and collaborate with others. 19 years professional software development ⋄ 33 years personal passion for building software

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

wprl — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 20:34:44 +0000

  Location: Midwest, USA
  Remote: Yes, please
  Willing to relocate: No, but willing to commute within reason
  Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, AWS, Docker, Podman
  Résumé/CV: https://kun.io/wprl-resume.pdf
  Email: william [at] kun [dot] io

New comment by wprl in "Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry"

wprl — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 12:04:58 +0000

You may have answered your own question. Perhaps centralization is the point as we move closer to the “extinguish” phase of open source as we have known it.

New comment by wprl in "A guidance language for controlling LLMs"

wprl — Wed, 17 May 2023 11:22:57 +0000

The hubris of mutating spiritual texts as a marketing gimmick is contemptible.

New comment by wprl in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023)"

wprl — Mon, 01 May 2023 23:32:31 +0000

Hi, I’m William Riley-Land.

Senior Software Engineer (Individual Contributor)

Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript, AWS

Location: Columbia, MO, United States

Remote: only

Relocate: no

Résumé: available on request

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/willprl

Email:william@kun.io

New comment by wprl in "Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer"

wprl — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:12:28 +0000

Maybe “generic and meaningless” is a better descriptor.

New comment by wprl in "GPT Spiritual Avisor"

wprl — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 14:39:33 +0000

This is gross.

New comment by wprl in "Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has students correct them"

wprl — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 15:00:30 +0000

I can’t tell if people just don’t understand how ChatGPT works or if there is another reason they are eager to dehumanize themselves and the rest of us along with them.

New comment by wprl in "Unpacking the Benefits of Zero Trust Architecture as Defined by NIST"

wprl — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 00:10:03 +0000

Thanks. I learned something. Even if passwords are a weak form of security, they add an extra Ayer that would make it much more difficult for an attacker. They don’t have to be the only layer of security, and would still be good as an extra layer on top of hardware keys and/or OS keychains. Very interesting.

New comment by wprl in "Food coloring, anti-caking nanoparticles may affect human gut"

wprl — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:35:46 +0000

Who would have thought? Eating sand is bad for you…

New comment by wprl in "Go claims telemetry objectors arguing in bad faith and violating Code of Conduct"

wprl — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 14:34:10 +0000

I had been about to devote some time to learning Go, but definitely won’t be after these latest developments.

New comment by wprl in "Is this poison ivy?"

wprl — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:30:10 +0000

This video about how to wash off poison ivy changed my life. The key is that urushiol acts a lot like invisible motor oil in terms of how it sticks to your skin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oyoDRHpQK0

New comment by wprl in "Is this poison ivy?"

wprl — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 00:21:23 +0000

"Hairy rope, don't be a dope"

New comment by wprl in "Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release"

wprl — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 01:58:35 +0000

You can add the Fira ligatures to any font with Ligaturizer. Personally I use it with CMU Typewriter.

[1]: https://github.com/ToxicFrog/Ligaturizer

New comment by wprl in "ChatGPT and the Enshittening of Knowledge"

wprl — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 16:06:18 +0000

> AI can experience the same rabbit-hole effect as your idiot cousin who has watched too many of the algorithmically suggested videos on Youtube and now believes that aliens conspired with a time travelling Elvis to kill Hitler using a bullet made of Yeti teeth. And they only went online looking for TellyTubbies videos.

LOL Thank you, I needed a good laugh!

New comment by wprl in "What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?"

wprl — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 15:08:18 +0000

When I looked into this a little bit, I found Copilot for Business states they do not record any of the info you send them. Though obviously you are still sending out code to a third party. I could not find any info about their policies for “normal” Copilot which I assume means they are recording all the code sent to it and using our code to further train the model.

New comment by wprl in "Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?"

wprl — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:35:04 +0000

I suppose this is nit picking, however that is not in the style of a Psalm.

New comment by wprl in "Gptcommit: Never write a commit message again (with the help of GPT-3)"

wprl — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:28:09 +0000

Hey, at least they referenced the (hopefully appropriate) JIRA ticket!