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Re: on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:53AM (#38736006)
Hi,

I had a couple of days to spare this week due to illness so I threw together this app that takes some text input and sends a Santa voice message to a contact.

It's fairly trivial to put together - just a Typeform, Elevenlabs Santa voice and the WhatsApp API.

But it blew away my daughter and niece :)

Thanks for checking it out, have fun!

Note: WhatsApp seemingly at random doesn't like sending to some numbers. I can't pin it down. Also.. rate limits are fixed unfortunately so things may just stop.

Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:02AM (#38624552)
nice, very solid! I've just started picking away at my own version of this (mainly to procrastinate from job searching), although not focused on crypto.

From a quick glance at the TG group, are you using just Github to scrape for jobs?

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021) on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @01:25AM (#26312433)
Brankas (https://brank.as/) | Senior/Junior Frontend and System Engineers | Full-time | Remote (UTC+7:00, but flexible)

Brankas is bringing Open Banking to Southeast Asia, bridging the gap between traditional banks and innovative FinTechs. Our vision is to make modern financial services available to everyone.

Our backend service-oriented architecture is entirely written in Go, and deployed on cloud-based systems like GKE, making heavy use of third-party systems and APIs. The frontend is using Vuejs for feature-heavy UIs and falling back to straight HTML/CSS when we need something lighter.

We are a team of passionate developers who actively contribute back to the community via open source and running several meetups in the region - GoJakarta and GoManila.

We're looking for strong developer generalists with previous experience building production quality systems. Candidates should have a strong desire to work in a fast moving, but rigorous development environment, with focus on pushing high quality, production grade, and secure code. Candidates should be familiar with service-oriented architectures / “microservices” and have strong working knowledge of systems architecture and design.

Send us an email at careers [@] brank.as - I'm looking forward to having a chat.

Thanks - Donal, Engineering Manager

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2016) on Friday July 01, 2016 @12:50PM (#12017711)
Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes, but prefer physical location

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Angular2, Typescript/Javascript, Xamarin, .Net, Java, MongoDB, Oracle, Docker, many others..

Résumé/CV: http://donalfarrell.com/cv/DonalFarrell-CV.pdf

Email: [email protected]

Currently employed full-time (2 week notice..); 6+ years experience; I'm searching for something that is engaging and forward-looking.

Thanks, Donal

Re:Faker.js – generate fake data in the browser and Node on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @08:40AM (#10806585)
I've been using this in conjunction with chance.js making it very easy to generate complex data sets

http://chancejs.com/

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2015) on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @01:26PM (#10154141)
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SEEKING WORK - LONDON / REMOTE OK - Full-Time.

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Full-Stack Developer; Specialise in cross-mobile solutions.

I am an enthusiastic software engineer with over 5 1/2+ years experience working with agile development teams (including management) on both front and back-end systems. Primarily work with C#/.NET, but have worked with several other technologies and platforms.

Recent large projects involved: Xamarin (inc Forms), AngularJs, ASP.Net 4.5+, iOS (Native Obj-C)

Feel free to contact me through any of the following links:

Github: https://github.com/donskifarrell

Blog (inc AboutMe/CV): http://donalfarrell.com/

Email: [email protected]

Thanks!

Donal

It is fairly simple to print off a form and send it in to your GP but I suspect the vast majority of people will see this as a hassle and never bother.

Considering recent government actions, I find it unsurprising that this is the only method - as far as I can find - to opt-out.

A simple form or email address would have been great. But we couldn't possibly have that for an online data service, oh no.

Re:Quick tip for developers who use OS X on Monday January 13, 2014 @07:24PM (#7054572)
Great tip, thanks.

Another useful fyi that I haven't seen anybody else mention is the Bash framework bash-it [https://github.com/revans/bash-it/]. It has tons of fantastic plugins, aliases and themes out of the box.

I've only tried it on iTerm2, but as it only replaces your .bash_profile file it should work fine on Terminal.

Re:Ask HN: Developing public-space digital art ideas on Thursday October 11, 2012 @04:15AM (#4639967)
Thanks, I was thinking the same but there is such a wealth of information here that I figured it was worth the ask.

Thanks for the links, i'll be sure to check them out.

Ask HN: Developing public-space digital art ideas

Hi,Does anyone have any recommendations or advice on institutions and companies that can help guide/kick start development of public-space digital art ideas? e.g Phone apps for use in public spaces; this Rain exhibition: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19873953Currently I have several ideas that are quite ambitious. Unfortunately, I have very little experience in how to go about...

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Re:Why the Raspberry Pi will save the UK on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @09:56AM (#3671242)
Hi, any examples / places to look for these?
Thanks for asking this question. I was wondering this as well. It's good to hear that very early stage ideas are not shunned altogether, even though we are at a disadvantage to other candidates.

I'm currently following David's advice; questioning my idea using YC application as a reference and starting to get a prototype together.