briandrum
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
on Monday December 01, 2025 @01:20PM (#46110894)
Location: Northeast Ohio, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Product management, product design, UX/UI design, HTML/CSS, JTBD, Shape Up
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandrum/
Email: [email protected]
I’m a software product manager, designer, and sometimes front-end developer. I’m passionate about creating simple, humane, and inclusive experiences, and creating the teams and processes that make that possible.
I led the product function at Aclaimant, and previously had roles at IBM Watson Health, Trunk Club, and a variety of digital agencies. I’ve worked at nearly every level of the stack, from UI design to front-end development to product management and strategy.
Re:We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs
on Monday November 24, 2025 @11:21AM (#46035750)
Shape Up was my first thought too. I just left a team where I introduced cycles of six weeks of feature development and two weeks of bug fixing, tech debt, and anything else the developers decided to tackle.
It depends on the stage and size of your team and company of course, but for us the result was more predictable delivery and happier, more-engaged developers.
For anyone curious to learn more: https://basecamp.com/shapeup/2.2-chapter-08#cool-down
Re:40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst onto the ...
on Thursday November 20, 2025 @10:57AM (#45993993)
We just finished rebuilding the bridge in the center of Mr. Watterson’s hometown, and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to reference that one!
Re:A New Jersey couple survived the Alaskan wilderness on a homestead
on Monday May 20, 2024 @10:39PM (#40423459)
The film, “Alone In the Wilderness” is terrific.
Re:That Time America Outlawed Pinball
on Friday February 23, 2024 @11:16PM (#39489069)
Fixed, thank you.
Re:That Time America Outlawed Pinball
on Friday February 23, 2024 @10:00PM (#39488753)
I did, thank you!
Our official code is hosted by American Legal Publishing [1], but it's so bad that I decided to download a copy and try hosting my own.
After I was elected to our village council I started to notice the similarities between legal code and computer code – large amounts of plain text, formatting, and change management.
I ended up using Markdown with some special CSS styling, and the site is generated by Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. BBEdit and regex was a huge help to whip it into shape.
You are welcome to use anything I've done [2]. I would love to see more people doing the same.
[1] https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/chagrinfalls/latest/ov...
Re:That Time America Outlawed Pinball
on Friday February 23, 2024 @09:33PM (#39488600)
Hard to believe? Possession of a pinball machine is still a first-degree misdemeanor where I live.
https://codes.forchagrin.com/chapters/chapter-715-coin-opera...
Re:Controversy
on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:57PM (#33334726)
That was obvious to me at least, and I appreciate that you shared it. Thanks!
Re:Ben Carlin
on Monday January 06, 2020 @08:08PM (#21975632)
However, “Carlin almost decided to abandon the journey and liquidate Half-Safe, but was convinced by his wife to continue.”
Sounds like she was – at least for a time – just as invested.
Re:Ask HN: Online resources for beginner web dev/design
on Thursday May 14, 2015 @12:18AM (#9543419)
For a free, high quality introduction to HTML and CSS, take a look at http://learn.shayhowe.com.
A few others I’m aware of but less familiar with:
http://tutorials.codebar.io http://howtocodeinhtml.com http://learnlayout.com