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> Have a lead agent keep track of your work. With a real task tool. I can drive several projects at once. I finally (have an agent) keep my work journal updated.

Do you have an agent you can share for this? Sounds like something I'd like to try

Wow, this is a great point. I guess there's two parts to this in my mind: the media part and the actual impact on the developer population. The media/tech influencer part is unsurprising, anyone publishing media in the AI space has to constantly push hot and FOMO inducing takes in order to stay relevant. The impact on devs is more interesting; the AI has become so accessibly good by default that everyone is expected to be able to speed run every part of the stack and infrastructure.

On Android I use the web browser "Tiny Browser". Chrome is disabled. The app is so comically basic, doesn't support tabs, so it works for the common task of needing to google something, but it makes it painful to do much more.

I remember some proto-memes about translation of some text between English and Chinese 100 times and the results being hilarious...modern parallel would be to ask a LLM to read the article, and generate the prompt that constructed the article. Then generate an article based on that prompt. Repeat x100.

The answer is in the name. The word 'hacker' used to more refer to someone who is a tinkerer, diy engineer, curious about how systems, components, etc work. Hacker News is still somewhat true to this ethos, what's popular here aligns with this old-school curiosity mindset. Of course the exact interests of the userbase has changed over the years, but if you spend a lot of time on this forum you eventually understand some of the common themes that get the minds of the hackers turning.

Unfortunately due to the enshittification of things people are conditioned to see HN as something to be gamed and leveraged for personal gain now, but in general it's algorithm-less enough, the the mods are strict enough, (thank god) that the type of content here stays pointed towards the original 'hacker' ideals.

For several thousand repos? Ensuring none of the 451 package versions have been installed on any branch in any repo? I don't think it's so simple.

Anyone have a good solution to scan all code in our Github org for uses of the affected packages? Many of the methods we've tried have dead ended. Inability to reliably search branches is quite annoying here.

For real. It makes me feel like I'm coding in C++ again. I have the suspicion that many Next aficionados are using M12 Macs with 512GB RAM and don't know how bad the DX is on anything less than a bleeding edge machine.

I've saved a link to more or less every thought-provoking article I've read since the last 12 years (first in Evernote, and now Obsidian). I have two notes, one "links", the other "article notes", that's just a bare minimum note-taking system for stuff I read on the web. Both notes are huge, and undoubtedly contain many tidbits of advice, perception shifting ideas, or "subjectivity merges" (https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/books-are-subjectivity-me...).

One of my project ideas now that has been building in my mind is, 12 years on, to go back and re-read and re-evaluate many of these links, and do a short write-up on how I've been influence by this article or any explicit choices that I've made in my life that could likely be attributed to it. I think this would be fascinating from a psychological/neurological POV but also a really cool chance to reflect on how I've changed/grown as a person.

Great article, and this resonates a lot with how I've felt lately. I'm trying to include at least one "creative" task each day in my to-dos, because I notice I feel much much better if I have a multidisciplinary day--some programming, some writing, some DIY projects, some new cooking. If I run out of steam for one thing, oftentimes I still have energy to put into other types of tasks, and even feel rejuvenated afterwards. These things can be small (like learning a new skating drill or a small home improvement project), but the act of creating something physical regularly feels really good to me day after day.

Location: Interlaken, Switzerland

Remote: Yes, willing to commute occasionally to Bern or (z.B. Zurich, more occasionally).

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Basically, React and its associated ecosystem. React Native, TypeScript, Redux, React Testing Library, TailwindCSS, Storybook.

CV/website:

https://austingayler.github.io/

https://austingayler.github.io/Austin_Gayler_CV.pdf

Email: See CV.

I've been working doing primarily frontend with React for the last 7 or so years, and started as more full stack. In a nutshell, I would describe myself as "love working closely with designers to implement UIs, but have no problem going to the `/foo/*` backend code to add the `glog` property because it's needed on the frontend."

SEEKING WORK

Location: Interlaken, Switzerland (GMT+1)

Remote: Yes, willing to commute occasionally to Bern or (z.B. Zurich, more occasionally).

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Basically, React and its associated ecosystem. React Native, TypeScript, Redux, React Testing Library, TailwindCSS, Storybook. Happy to prototype your whole MVP, sync with a backend dev, or work side by side with a designer/PM.

CV/website:

https://austingayler.github.io/

https://austingayler.github.io/Austin_Gayler_CV.pdf

Email: See CV.

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I've been working doing primarily frontend with React for the last 7 or so years, and started as more full stack. Lots of experience in startups with responsibility and agency.

SEEKING WORK

Location: Interlaken, Switzerland (GMT+1)

Remote: Yes, willing to commute occasionally to Bern or (z.B. Zurich, more occasionally).

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Basically, React and its associated ecosystem. React Native, TypeScript, Redux, React Testing Library, TailwindCSS, Storybook. Happy to prototype your whole MVP, sync with a backend dev, or work side by side with a designer/PM.

CV/website:

https://austingayler.github.io/

https://austingayler.github.io/Austin_Gayler_CV.pdf

Email: See CV.

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I've been working doing primarily frontend with React for the last 7 or so years, and started as more full stack. Lots of experience in startups with responsibility and agency.

Location: Interlaken, Switzerland

Remote: Yes, willing to commute occasionally to Bern or (z.B. Zurich, more occasionally).

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Basically, React and its associated ecosystem. React Native, TypeScript, Redux, React Testing Library, TailwindCSS, Storybook.

CV/website:

https://austingayler.github.io/

https://austingayler.github.io/Austin_Gayler_CV.pdf

Email: See CV.

I've been working doing primarily frontend with React for the last 7 or so years, and started as more full stack. In a nutshell, I would describe myself as "love working closely with designers to implement UIs, but have no problem going to the `/foo/*` backend code to add the `glog` property because it's needed on the frontend."

They're nice to be able to change up your position during the course of the day, but regardless of what you do, it's bad for your body to be in the same position for several in a row. You can throw some money at the problem, but having discipline to get up and have a quick break every 30 minutes will take you much further than a standing desk will IME.

Really cool angle. I'm curious how Youtube ranks on the amount of human knowledge or described experience compared to the whole (publically available) web. It's got to be pretty substantial.

Location: Interlaken, Switzerland

Remote: Yes, willing to commute occasionally to Bern or (z.B. Zurich, more occasionally).

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Basically, React and its associated ecosystem. React Native, TypeScript, Redux, React Testing Library, TailwindCSS, Storybook.

CV/website:

https://austingayler.github.io/

https://austingayler.github.io/Austin_Gayler_CV.pdf

Email: See CV.

I've been working doing primarily frontend with React for the last 7 or so years, and started as more full stack. In a nutshell, I would describe myself as "love working closely with designers to implement UIs, but have no problem going to the `/foo/*` backend code to add the `glog` property because it's needed on the frontend."

SEEKING WORK

Location: Interlaken, Switzerland

Remote: Yes, willing to commute occasionally to Bern or (z.B. Zurich, more occasionally).

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Basically, React and its associated ecosystem. React Native, TypeScript, Redux, React Testing Library, TailwindCSS, Storybook.

CV/website:

https://austingayler.github.io/

https://austingayler.github.io/Austin_Gayler_CV.pdf

Email: See CV.

To add to the list, clamp:

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/01/modern-fluid-typogr...

Such a nice property, makes responsiveness much easier to build in

A personal journaling web app that records my voice, sends it to a speech-to-text API, then sends that text to ChatGPT to rewrite it in a style of my choice (bulleted list, casual, professional, etc). Then saves that as a markdown file for viewing in the same web app. Pretty easy to make and I really like journaling with my voice.

Location: Interlaken, Switzerland

Remote: Yes, willing to commute occasionally to Bern or (z.B. Zurich, more occasionally).

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Basically, React and its associated ecosystem. React Native, TypeScript, Redux, React Testing Library, TailwindCSS, Storybook.

CV/website:

https://austingayler.github.io/

https://austingayler.github.io/Austin_Gayler_CV.pdf

Email: See CV.

I've been working doing primarily frontend with React for the last 7 or so years, and started as more full stack. In a nutshell, I would describe myself as "love working closely with designers to implement UIs, but have no problem going to the `/foo/*` backend code to add the `glog` property because it's needed on the frontend."

SEEKING WORK

Location: Interlaken, Switzerland

Remote: Yes, willing to commute occasionally to Bern or (z.B. Zurich, more occasionally).

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Basically, React and its associated ecosystem. React Native, TypeScript, Redux, React Testing Library, TailwindCSS, Storybook.

CV/website:

https://austingayler.github.io/

https://austingayler.github.io/Austin_Gayler_CV.pdf

Email: See CV.

I've been working doing primarily frontend with React for the last 7 or so years, and started as more full stack. In a nutshell, I would describe myself as "love working closely with designers to implement UIs, but have no problem going to the `/foo/*` backend code to add the `glog` property because it's needed on the frontend."

SEEKING WORK

Location: Interlaken, Switzerland

Remote: Yes, willing to commute occasionally to Bern or (z.B. Zurich, more occasionally).

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Basically, React and its associated ecosystem. React Native, TypeScript, Redux, React Testing Library, TailwindCSS, Storybook.

CV/website:

https://austingayler.github.io/

https://austingayler.github.io/Austin_Gayler_CV.pdf

Email: See CV.

I've been working doing primarily frontend with React for the last 7 or so years, and started as more full stack. In a nutshell, I would describe myself as "love working closely with designers to implement UIs, but have no problem going to the `/foo/*` backend code to add the `glog` property because it's needed on the frontend."

I would almost consider this a default package to use in a react application for server-side state. Any mildly complex UI will almost immediately need init/loading/error/data states, and you begin to write a wrapper that trends towards what react-query gives you. It makes it a lot easier to by default, write code that provides much better UX. The improvement there far outweighs the small amount of time it takes to learn the library and overhead it introduces.

For sure an influential engineering codex. Feels almost strange thinking about all the easy abstractions we have now for hosting, like Render or Vercel or that this was written in 2012, when web apps were much much more of a wild west in terms of accepted/shared practices.

SEEKING WORK

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Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Basically, React and its associated ecosystem. React Native, TypeScript, Redux, React Testing Library, TailwindCSS, Storybook.

CV/website:

https://austingayler.github.io/

https://austingayler.github.io/cv.pdf

Email: See CV.

I've been working doing primarily frontend with React for the last 5 or so years, and started as more full stack. In a nutshell, I would describe myself as "love working closely with designers to implement UIs, but have no problem going to the `/foo/*` backend code to add the `glog` property because it's needed on the frontend."

Location: Interlaken, Switzerland

Remote: Yes, though willing to commute occasionally to Bern or (z.B. Zurich, more occasionally).

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Basically, React and its associated ecosystem. React Native, TypeScript, Redux, React Testing Library, TailwindCSS, Storybook.

CV/website:

https://austingayler.github.io/

https://austingayler.github.io/cv.pdf

Email: See CV.

I've been working doing primarily frontend with React for the last 5 or so years, and started as more full stack. In a nutshell, I would describe myself as "love working closely with designers to implement UIs, but have no problem going to the `/foo/*` backend code to add the `glog` property because it's needed on the frontend."

SEEKING WORK

Location: Interlaken, Switzerland

Remote: Yes, willing to commute occasionally to Bern or (z.B. Zurich, more occasionally).

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Basically, React and its associated ecosystem. React Native, TypeScript, Redux, React Testing Library, TailwindCSS, Storybook.

CV/website:

https://austingayler.github.io/

https://austingayler.github.io/cv.pdf

Email: See CV.

I've been working doing primarily frontend with React for the last 5 or so years, and started as more full stack. In a nutshell, I would describe myself as "love working closely with designers to implement UIs, but have no problem going to the `/foo/*` backend code to add the `glog` property because it's needed on the frontend."

Location: Interlaken, Switzerland

Remote: Yes, though willing to commute occasionally to Bern or (z.B. Zurich, more occasionally).

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Basically, React and its associated ecosystem. React Native, TypeScript, Redux, React Testing Library, TailwindCSS, Storybook.

CV/website:

https://austingayler.github.io/

https://austingayler.github.io/cv.pdf

Email: See CV.

I've been working doing primarily frontend with React for the last 5 or so years, and started as more full stack. In a nutshell, I would describe myself as "love working closely with designers to implement UIs, but have no problem going to the `/foo/*` backend code to add the `glog` property because it's needed on the frontend."

Location: Interlaken, Switzerland

Remote: Yes, though willing to commute occasionally to Bern or (z.B. Zurich, more occasionally).

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Basically, React and its associated ecosystem. React Native, TypeScript, Redux, React Testing Library, TailwindCSS, Storybook.

CV/website:

https://austingayler.github.io/

https://austingayler.github.io/cv.pdf

Email: See CV.

I've been working doing primarily frontend with React for the last 5 or so years, and started as more full stack. In a nutshell, I would describe myself as "love working closely with designers to implement UIs, but have no problem going to the `/foo/*` backend code to add the `glog` property because it's needed on the frontend."