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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:01PM (#50342822)

  Location: Georgia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: C, C++, Swift, TypeScript, Python, Objective-C, React, React Native, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FuZfiurvsvhgjK4RXYGJrL3X3afz9R86/view
  Email: [email protected]
I previously worked as an architect at a consultancy, leading small teams. I've shipped many projects and have broad technical experience, from drivers to web development. With AI agents, I'm very effective: I can build and launch complex projects on my own without them collapsing under their own weight.

I'm looking for a startup that needs a first and/or sole engineer who can "build it all" or an existing team I can strengthen.

I'm based in Georgia, in a European time zone, but I've spent half my life working with companies in SF, so adjusting my sleep schedule isn't a problem. A B2B contract or EOR works for me - whichever suits you. I'm also open to relocating if needed.

Get in touch, and let's discuss how I can help your startup.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) on Thursday October 01, 2026 @11:33AM (#49923053)

  Location: Georgia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: C, C++, Swift, TypeScript, Python, Objective-C, React, React Native, Electron, WebGL, SwiftUI, UIKit, Node.js, Fastify, Hono, NestJS, OpenAPI, WebSockets, GraphQL, Qt, QML, Cocoa, STL, Boost, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, gVisor, Firecracker, AWS
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FuZfiurvsvhgjK4RXYGJrL3X3afz9R86/view
  Email: [email protected]
Hi, I'm Andrii. I'm looking for a developer role at the intersection of low-level programming and application development. I have experience in video processing and streaming, network driver development, and desktop application development for macOS, Windows, and Linux. I've also worked extensively with iOS since the platform's early days. I'm also proficient in modern web development with React and Node.js. Open to full-time roles and project-based collaborations.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026) on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:30AM (#49523315)

  Location: Georgia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: TypeScript, Swift/Objective-C, C/C++, React/React Native, Node.js, Qt/QML, PostgreSQL
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FuZfiurvsvhgjK4RXYGJrL3X3afz9R86/view 
  Email: [email protected]
Over 20 years of experience in software development. I have built web, desktop, and mobile applications, backend services, and system-level software. I enjoy working in startups, building products from scratch, and solving complex technical problems. Hands-on experience with AI integrations and local inference.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) on Monday August 03, 2026 @11:57AM (#49157504)

  Location: Georgia (country)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Maybe
  Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, React, Swift, SwiftUI, C++, C, Electron
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UGbvB3FKtxMjK1Fxq8OKBvrNBrE7NGtR/view
  Email: [email protected]
Full-stack engineer with 20+ years of experience, looking for a founding or first-engineer role. I build products from scratch and can work across frontend, backend, mobile, and infrastructure.

Particularly interested in small teams where I can take ownership and ship complete products.

Based in Georgia and accustomed to working US Pacific hours.

Re:SwiftUI After 7 Years on Sunday August 02, 2026 @03:40PM (#49147609)
It's licensing is expensive though unless the app is opensource.
Is there a way to make this work with https://github.com/porsager/postgres ? It's very close to raw SQL but with safe substitutions. I use it with Zod, but it would be great to have the types derived automatically.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024) on Monday September 02, 2024 @11:28AM (#41426258)

  Location: Tbilisi, Georgia
  Remote: Preferred
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: TypeScript, React, React Native, iOS / Swift, Node.js, PostgreSQL
  Résumé/CV: on request
  Email: [email protected]
A full-stack generalist with 26 years of experience.

I currently hold a position as a Software Architect at a software consultancy, but I'm not attached to the title. I can quickly prototype things on my own, making me ideal for bootstrapping startups, or I can assemble and train a team.

For the past 7 years, I've primarily been working with, and am most proficient in, TypeScript, React, React Native, iOS/Swift/ObjC, Node.js, and Postgres. I've worked with many other languages and technologies and can easily pick up new ones if needed.

Here is a list of some other languages and technologies I’ve worked with previously: C, C++, Ruby, Rails, Lua, PHP, C#, .NET, Java (J2ME), OpenGL, WebGL, Cocoa, Qt, QML, MFC, ATL, QNX, Linux/Windows device drivers, Blockchain (miner development, wallet integrations, monitoring, Solidity), etc.

Fastify is absolutely fantastic. It has the concept of "type providers", allowing you to pair it with fastify-type-provider-json-schema-to-ts (for JSON schemas) or another typing system of choice, such as Zod, to obtain strongly typed queries, request bodies, and responses in handlers with TS types derived on the fly at compile time. It also validates data returned from handlers to conform to schemas, reducing the likelihood of accidentally leaking sensitive information. And it's faster than Express, even with validation.
Re:Play Leisure Suit Larry free in DOS running in browser on Friday October 06, 2023 @08:47AM (#37790046)
Al Lowe was not involved with the latest two.
If the interview is structured in a way that overloads your short-term memory, which is often the case, you'll have problems remembering things from a long time ago. Ask someone questions about recent events for a few minutes, and they won't even be able to remember not only what they worked on in projects many years ago but also their grandfather's name. Everyone has this problem; it's just how memory works, and poorly structured interviews trigger this effect. A workaround is to prepare beforehand and keep a list of things to talk about nearby.
Re:Introducing react.dev on Friday March 17, 2023 @06:31AM (#35195253)
Eyedrops name of which I don't remember, but I can try find if needed as they're commonly prescribed in Russia for this condition. I wouldn't recommend them though as turning a single clot into long wormy things was scary and annoying. I seen similar complaints from others who were prescribed these eyedrops. I'm not sure if they helped with dissolving the floaters, as I had smaller recurrence recently and not used any eyedrops and it's still slowly going away. Btw, if floaters are in the center, try moving the eyes up and down 10 times in succession - most of them should stick outside of vision.
I think mine were. I strained my eyes really bad over days of work, and then one day before going to sleep rubbed them. When I opened the eyes, I seen a brown clot in the middle of vision which after a month of treatment with eyedrops fell apart into lots of floaters / worms. 2 years later most of them dissolved, but some remain and vision is blurred a bit. It also turned out that most people I asked have floaters too, but if there aren't many, they're filtered out by brain. If you aren't looking for them specifically, they aren't visible. They are hard to unsee though once you seen them, so better not to try. )
I also think so. Often script needs to access a file in actual current dir (for example a config file) or process files with relative paths supplied by user and changing working dir makes this hard.

I think an easier way is to find script's location and construct paths for accessing script dependencies, for example (works on Linux & macOS):

  script_root="$(cd "$(dirname "$(readlink "$([[ "${OSTYPE}" == linux* ]] && echo "-f")" "$0")")"; pwd)"
  source "${script_root}/common.sh"
  source "${script_root}/packages.sh"
  source "${script_root}/colors.sh"
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2022) on Monday October 03, 2022 @11:19AM (#33068741)

  Location: Europe (PST is also fine)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: TypeScript, React, React Native, NodeJS; Swift, ObjC, C++
  Résumé/CV: Upon request
  Email: [email protected]
Hello! My name is Andrey, I'm full-stack dev with systems programming background. Nowadays, I specialize in web app development and native apps for iOS and macOS, can adapt to your stack or do something very niche / low level (write a device driver etc). Please let me know what you're working on and I'll describe my relevant experience.

Looking to join a team as a full-time contractor on a 3+ mo project. Small teams / early stage startups preferred. Relocation is possible if needed.

Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? on Sunday January 30, 2022 @04:28AM (#30135337)
In simple words, he should have called a smart contract's function which would withdraw his tokens and send real ETH to his address. Instead, he sent tokens to smart contract's address and they will stay there forever, not associated with any account. This complexity should be abstracted away by wallet's UI. Users don't have to call APIs directly. Also, this whole situation could be prevented by trying to send a smaller amount first.
Re:How to Squash and Rebase in Git on Friday January 07, 2022 @11:48AM (#29841372)
Downside of squashing as opposed to making a merge commit (without fast forward) or merging by rebasing, however, is losing granularity. Later it'll be hard to roll back a small part of PR while keeping rest of the changes.

Also it'll be harder to go back and review changes when troubleshooting issues because formatting changes were squashed together with business logic changes. With merges at least there are still original commits available, and it'll be possible to either rollback everything or a single commit.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2021) on Monday November 01, 2021 @02:23PM (#29070777)

  Location: Russia (UTC+3, but any TZ is fine)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: TypeScript, Swift, C, C++, ObjC, React, Electron, Node, Docker, Docker Compose, PostgreSQL, Qt
  Résumé/CV: On request, please email me
  Email: [email protected]
Hey! My name is Andrey, I'm full-stack dev with more than 10 years of remote work experience (20 overall) and specialize primarily in web app development (React + Node) and native apps for iOS and macOS. Ideally I'm looking for a full-time job or 3+ mo project.

Previously I've worked on wide variety of projects such as multi-tiered web apps with SSO, Shopify / WooCommerce plugins for delivery services, Linux device drivers, video streaming apps, mobile banking apps and so on.

I'm always open to learn something new, particularly interested in Rust and Go.

Firefox dropped H264 support 1 year ago because of Google Play Store policies. This codec was required for interacting with iOS devices which did not have VP8. However, VP8 has been added since iOS 12.1, so it might be possible to use it now across all platforms.

- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548679

- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...

Re:React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:18AM (#24118596)
It contains a very serious breaking change: cleanup in useEffect is now being executed asynchronously. I might not be seeing something, but I think this means all patterns like the one below will now have hard to catch racing conditions.

  const [x, setX] = useState()
  useEffect(() => {
    let isMounted = true
    someAsyncFunc(result => {
      if (isMounted) {
        setX(result) // should not be called on dismounted component
      }
    })
    return () => { isMounted = false }
  }, [])
  return <MyComponent x={x} />
In this example it's possible that component will be unmounted, then completion handler will run and try to modify state before cleanup function will be able to set the flag.

Imo choosing a different name for new useEffect would be better (like useAsyncEffect or introducing a parameter), because just changing its behavior won't even result in compilation errors or guaranteed run-time errors, only make old code unstable.

Is there a way to reliably detect if component is still mounted before updating it when doing async operations in effects?

Re:A Surprise AWS Bill on Sunday July 26, 2020 @04:34PM (#23959984)
I don't recommend them. We used to host an online text game there (MUD) and when one of the players decided to DDOS it, Hetzner just pulled the plug. I moved to soyoustart.com (it's OVH brand) - in following month they sent a couple emails about the server being attacked and that they're trying to mitigate the attack, but game kept working.
For example which ones? For past few years I'm using Mail-in-a-Box hosted on soyoustart and can't remember any problems when sending mail to big providers. I only had to check that IP is not in spam lists initially and asked to remove it from one of them.