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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:08AM (#49929749)
Location: U.S.A.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but we'll meet in person.

Technologies: React/Vue, WordPress, Django (incl. Python for data science generally), Rust.

We offer top-rate web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of legacy web systems, especially WordPress ecom storefronts, that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org. You're guaranteed to get a reply from our principal—me—within a few hours.

Realistically, you can think of him as a fractional CTO. He has survived, thrived, and delivered in profoundly dysfunctional environments.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026) on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:15AM (#49653824)
Location: U.S.A.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but we'll meet in person.

Technologies: React/Vue, WordPress, Django (incl. Python for data science generally), Rust.

We offer top-rate web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of legacy web systems, especially WordPress ecom storefronts, that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org. You're guaranteed to get a reply from our principal—me—within a few hours.

Realistically, you can think of him as a fractional CTO. He has survived, thrived, and delivered in profoundly dysfunctional environments.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2026) on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:13AM (#49653812)
SEEKING WORK

Location: U.S.A.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but we'll meet in person.

Technologies: React/Vue, WordPress, Django (incl. Python for data science generally), Rust.

We offer top-rate web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of legacy web systems, especially WordPress ecom storefronts, that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org. You're guaranteed to get a reply from our principal—me—within a few hours.

Realistically, you can think of him as a fractional CTO. He has survived, thrived, and delivered in profoundly dysfunctional environments.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2026) on Sunday May 10, 2026 @01:31PM (#48085954)
Location: U.S.A.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but we'll meet in person.

Technologies: React/Vue, WordPress, Django (incl. Python for data science generally), Rust.

We offer top-rate web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of legacy web systems, especially WordPress ecom storefronts, that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org. You're guaranteed to get a reply from our principal—me—within a few hours.

Realistically, you can think of him as a fractional CTO. He has survived, thrived, and delivered in profoundly dysfunctional environments.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026) on Friday April 03, 2026 @02:44PM (#47630440)
Location: U.S.A.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but we'll meet in person. Technologies: React/Vue, WordPress, Django (incl. Python for data science generally), Rust.

We offer top-rate web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of legacy web systems, especially WordPress ecom storefronts, that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org. You're guaranteed to get a reply from our principal—me—within a few hours.

If I could give an LLM to any historical figure, I would give it to Nietzsche.
The accurate inferences that can be drawn from subtle linguistic attributes should freak you out more than they do.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026) on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @07:09PM (#47241081)
Location: U.S.A.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but we'll meet in person.

Technologies: React/Vue, WordPress, Django (incl. Python for data science generally), Rust.

We offer top-rate web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of legacy web systems, especially WordPress ecom storefronts, that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org. You're guaranteed to get a reply from our principal—me—within a few hours.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2026) on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @07:04PM (#47241028)
SEEKING WORK | U.S.A. | Remote

We offer top-rate React/Vue web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of old WordPress systems that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org.

Re:Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust on Saturday December 13, 2025 @01:17AM (#46252488)
Very interesting. Roughly speaking, how does performance compare to SQLite?
Re:Time to Start De-Appling on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @12:02AM (#45884288)
What's the catch?
Re:Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @11:46AM (#45748436)
It isn't too late!
Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @11:42AM (#45748350)
From the artichokel: "If bills are a fiction in order to back up the fiction of charity so the hospital can write off accounts and look like they are somehow doing right by people, this is an effed system."

So close, yet so, so far! If a corporation commits fraud against you, and you literally ask if the corporation has committed fraud against you, and you proceed to voluntarily send that corporation THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS anyway, are you not a willing co-conspirator in the fraud?

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2025) on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @04:33PM (#43626164)
SEEKING WORK | U.S.A. | Remote

We offer top-rate React/Vue web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of old WordPress systems that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2024) on Monday September 02, 2024 @02:07PM (#41427536)
SEEKING WORK | U.S.A. | Remote

Constellation Trust is our name, and saving you from slow-motion software catastrophes is our game.

We are professional saviors of slowly (or quickly) failing legacy software, especially in the e-commerce space.

Online storefronts can be excruciating. We understand what it’s like to struggle with SEO and janky plugins and shopping-cart abandonment and inventory management. Let us take your pain away.

Our secret sauce is that we genuinely care. (Trust us: we're here for you.)

https://constellationtrust.org

P.S. It doesn’t usually make sense to retain us until you’re in the ballpark of about a million dollars’ worth of revenue annually.

Re:Ask HN: What is replacing SEO for discoverability? on Monday September 02, 2024 @01:46PM (#41427383)
Exactly right. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Re:Ask HN: What is replacing SEO for discoverability? on Friday August 30, 2024 @02:14PM (#41403190)
Trade conferences. (Trade conferences will outlast all digital media.)
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2024) on Friday August 02, 2024 @11:23AM (#41139603)
SEEKING WORK | U.S.A. | Remote

Constellation Trust is our name, and saving you from others' slow-motion catastrophes is our game.

We are professional saviors of failed software projects and failing legacy software, especially in the e-commerce space.

Our secret sauce is that we genuinely care. (Trust us: we're here for you.)

https://constellationtrust.org

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Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2024) on Monday July 01, 2024 @08:22PM (#40852317)
SEEKING WORK | U.S.A. | Remote

Constellation Trust is our name, and saving you from others' slow-motion catastrophes is our game.

We are professional saviors of failed software projects and failing legacy software.

Our secret sauce is that we genuinely care. (Trust us: we're here for you.)

https://constellationtrust.org