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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026) on Monday February 02, 2026 @02:37PM (#46860239)
Bookwhen (https://bookwhen.com) | Full-Stack Ruby Engineer | Full-time | Remote (UK) We're looking for an experienced full-stack Rails developer, interested in solving real problems to help our customers succeed. We provide the booking service for a wide range of businesses. You will be joining a highly motivated and friendly team. The business is proudly bootstrapped and well established.

https://apply.workable.com/bookwhen/j/85D90170FD/

Re:AI Police Reports: Year in Review on Saturday December 27, 2025 @06:01AM (#46400909)
Well said, and thank you for the final paragraph. Made me chuckle.
Re:The Rise of Whatever on Friday July 04, 2025 @03:17AM (#44461970)
Exactly this. LLMs make learning faster and easier for those who _want_ to learn, but conversely make it harder for those who don’t.
Re:Flappy Bird in 1000 lines of C on Sunday December 08, 2024 @10:32AM (#42357692)
Kickstarter video including the hand crafting process: https://youtu.be/7bkaEAt2afs
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022) on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:42PM (#32308717)
Bookwhen (https://bookwhen.com) | Full-Stack Ruby Engineer | Full-time | Remote (UK)

We're looking for an experienced full-stack Rails developer who's interested in solving real problems to help our customers succeed.

We provide the booking service for a wide range of businesses. You will be joining a highly motivated and friendly team. The business is proudly bootstrapped and well established.

Apply via https://bookwhen.com/work-with-us or get in touch with any questions.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021) on Monday November 01, 2021 @06:20PM (#29073987)
Bookwhen.com | Remote (UK) | Full-time | Ruby engineer

Bookwhen is a booking system for classes and courses. We're expanding our engineering and product team, looking for people passionate about creating great software and solving real customer problems. We are a growing bootstrapped business, proud to be helping people.

Apply here https://apply.workable.com/bookwhen/j/92CA51743A/ or contact [email protected]

Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:38AM (#25671486)
If Signal had a 'Create group from WhatsApp' option then most of my groups would have switched over in an instant.
Re:Matestack – Reactive UIs in pure Ruby on Sunday November 22, 2020 @05:13AM (#25176315)
Even if this was a good idea, the push on commercialisation puts me off. And as other commenters have said, the DSL feels like it would end up being a hinderance. Stimulus (and perhaps StimulusReflex) feel like the safer bets for the dynamic rails future.
I learnt to program on the ZXSpectrum with "Write Your Own Adventure Programs for Your Microcomputer" [0]

The RPi400 with Pico-8 seems to tick the same boxes, so I got one for my 10yr old. He's loving it. Perfect use case.

[0] https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/Write%...

Re:A guide to live chat tools for startups on Thursday November 05, 2020 @03:20PM (#25001572)
I'm a late stage Intercom customer, very disappointed by their price gouging. I also find their 1 day support response time for existing customers, in contrast to immediate responses for new prospects very telling of their general ethos. This article is welcome.
Yes! Sidecar should have the option to show the iPad screen for presentations in OSX. Drawing apps on iOS are much better suited to live-doodling with a pen than OSX ones.
Re:Firefox 76 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @06:31PM (#23085894)
Same sort of issue for me, but I use the Chrome bookmarks toolbar - only shown on new tab. It's the main thing I miss on FF.
Re:TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management on Saturday April 18, 2020 @02:23PM (#22909882)
I've been using Postico for years. High quality software.
Nice. Most of the instructors on our system* have pivoted to run their classes online like that now too. YouTube or Vimeo synchronized with a live Zoom.

It's actually working really well for them as they can now open to a wider audience! It's great to see how people have adapted so quickly in the lockdown.

* https://bookwhen.com/virtual-class-booking-system

Re:24 Hours of Rust Game Development on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @07:28AM (#19310072)
Only partially related to the post topic, but this rust game project is worth checking out - https://github.com/citybound/citybound
Re:Just Read the Book Already on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @09:51AM (#17809522)
Amazing! I didn't know about outline. So much nicer than the original. Thank you.
Re:Introducing Messenger Kids on Monday December 04, 2017 @09:02AM (#15843838)
What can we do to protect our world from the the mega-corps degrading society and eating our souls with their moral compass lacking commercialisation of our very existence? Serious question.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017) on Monday April 03, 2017 @12:11PM (#14023999)
Bookwhen | Rails & JavaScript | Oxford or REMOTE in UK | Fulltime | https://bookwhen.com

We're looking for someone with a strong interest in building high quality well tested code, whilst maintaining a pragmatic approach to organically growing a system that meets our customers' needs. Bonus points for UX/UI skills, API design, and good communication skills. Contact: [email protected]

State machines in games should be a lure enough for the kids: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/state.html
Re:Linode DDoS continues – Atlanta down for 16+ hours on Saturday January 02, 2016 @05:11AM (#10825739)
Agreed. Attacks like this should be turned into a national issue and not left to Linode to deal with alone. I hope the NSA or FBI or whoever are investigating.
Re:Just doesn’t feel good on Friday September 18, 2015 @01:44PM (#10240749)
Flappy Bird
Re:Show HN: SpaceBase – A Sass-based Responsive CSS Framework on Thursday January 22, 2015 @04:37PM (#8931906)
Agreed. A single kitchen sink page would be enough for now, just to get a feel for the base styles.
Re:High Speed Robot Hand Dexterity [video] on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @04:36AM (#8721877)
My first HN LOL thanks!
Re:Xip.io: Wildcard DNS for everyone on Monday May 12, 2014 @01:52PM (#7734279)
A word of warning for any UK based BT customers: xip.io doesn't work on BT Home Hub 5! I recently upgraded to the 5 from a Home Hub 3 (which it worked fine on), but had to send it back because of this. The 'BT tech experts' couldn't give an explanation. Has anyone else had the same issue?
Re:Ask HN: What do you use to organize your knowledge? on Monday May 05, 2014 @03:41AM (#7697376)
Me too.. until recently, because there's no way to switch to a fixed width font. So I've moved to the built in mac Notes app. You can hack the resources files to set a plain background and better default font.

As soon as Simplenote allow font changes, I'm going back though for the Android cross platform support.

Re:Introducing OneNote for Mac on Monday March 17, 2014 @12:07PM (#7415927)
OneNote 235MB, Simplenote 1.2MB

I know there's no comparison in functionality, but if words are all you need then that's 233.8MB less bloat!

(If benhuberman's listening - please give us font options!)

Re:Free Bootstrap Framework for Startups on Friday January 10, 2014 @08:06AM (#7036376)
Quick first impressions: Cutting edge designs nicely implemented, but personally I find these style of websites a bit annoying to navigate. Not their fault though. Web design is all about trends and this framework is certainly riding on the latest.

Also, I liked this little gem: "This is a probably the best plans ever born"

Re:Fedora 20 released on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @05:57AM (#6920476)
With Gnome 3.10. Nice. Even nicer with the Phosphene theme: http://hdni.github.io/rice/assets/phosphene_preview.png - https://github.com/hdni/Phosphene

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