Does Stellar Sleep delve into sleep hygiene? Are "edge cases" considered e.g. some people report no difference with cutting caffeine (as mentioned) but others cut caffeine and instantly their insomnia is cured and their lives change.
I'm working with a small, fast-growing SaaS startup running a Rails app on Heroku. Our dyno usage/spend is accelerating ($3k+ per month) plus we're looking at getting SOC 2 compliant this year, so we're evaluating a move to AWS (Elastic Beanstalk or ECS).We don't have a dedicated DevOps or infrastructure person (small team of 4 engineers) so taking on the complexity and risk with lower-level...
One tip — don't complain to management about how "awful the codebase is" or "how you need to start over" (100% agree this is usually a terrible idea). Managers have been hearing this over their entire career as a technical manager (over time they can lose empathy being out of the weeds). It becomes an overused trope and management will start to see you as being problem-oriented.
I'm not saying don't surface the issues — management absolutely should have an accurate understanding. Instead, try and balance the good with the bad (and there will always be some good). Don't catastrophize — approach is as a manageable problem with quantified risk e.g. responding to estimation with "typically this is a straightforward problem to solve, but I've explored this area of the codebase and there are some challenges we'll need to overcome — the estimate will be larger and less precise then we want to see, and we'll benefit from prototyping/research/spikes to reduce risk of introducing serious bugs and come to a more accurate estimate".
You'll build trust by consistently delivering on the expectations you set around concrete features/task (including the negative expectations) then management will reach the conclusion themselves and will trust your assessment with any new project. Plus, management will ultimately see you as an incredible asset to help bridge the gap of the technical black box and their purvey.
I have 15+ years experience leading teams (and personally as an IC) building full-stack web apps from MVP to Enterprise. I get the business side (founded multiple startups — cvtrack.com most recently), I understand good UI/UX design (5 years Director for design/development agency), and run efficient teams as a PM / technical lead or fractional CTO (5+ years as PM and fractional CTO).
My specialty is coming into existing startup (< 50 people) dev/product teams as a hands-on leader and swiftly rebuilding morale, aligning/managing priorities, managing expectations, and bridging technical/product gaps with leadership. I'm told that when I join a team, product development velocity skyrockets, sometimes by an order of magnitude. For less hands-on engagements, I consult around technical hiring, architecture (Senior Developer bandwidth where it doesn't exist), product advising, and technical strategy.
Because I'm so hands-on, as a full-stack developer I will also build web apps (solo or as part of a team) in a variety of languages and frameworks (PHP/Laravel, Ruby/Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, Python/Django) — and I merge it with good design understanding, product sense, and business value.
Previous client engagements: First Solar, Sophos, General Dynamics, among many, many amazing startups Previous positions: Tuft & Needle (head of engineering), GoDaddy (product management)
It seems like Heroku has been dying on a vine. The platform is still incredible and unmatched in Developer Experience, but recent security incidents (along with a severely prolonged resolution), downtime, and (just yesterday) a DNS-related issue is making me reconsider and quite possibly will move some mission-critical apps to AWS.Are you migrating away from Heroku? If so, which cloud provider...
Tools don't solve everything with any team, but bad tools can encumber a team and hamstrung potential.
Drawbackwards is a UX design & development agency in Tempe, AZ.
We're looking for a React/Typescript & UI developer to join our 5-person development team building a new large-scale, greenfield product. Our design team provides thoughtful, comprehensive and high-fidelity mockups in Figma for pixel-perfect implementation. The team follows async-first communication/development practices, is highly supportive and egoless, focusing on the work and results first.
Please feel free to email [email protected] with a little background on yourself.
Drawbackwards is a UX design & development agency in Tempe, AZ.
We're looking for an Angular/TypeScript & UI developer to join our 5-person development team building a new large-scale, greenfield product. Our design team provides thoughtful, comprehensive and high-fidelity mockups in Figma for pixel-perfect implementation. The team follows async-first communication/development practices, is highly supportive and egoless, focusing on the work and results first.
Please feel free to email [email protected] with a little background on yourself.
At the time, I was young, insecure, and fraught with imposter syndrome (viewing virtually everyone as smarter than me) so I took it personally. That feedback gave me a visceral "that has got to be the worst feedback ever" reaction.
Fast forward 10 years, I've reached the point where I don't think twice about asking questions in any setting. I'm secure and confident in what I know, understand the vastness of what I don't know, and try to be vulnerable about this truth. I'm no longer worried about looking dumb. Maybe some people still think "well that's a dumb question, he should know that" but I'd rather have this experience, while retaining my adaptability "superpower" of being able to dig to the root of a problem, quickly learn context, and rapidly provide solutions.
I think about that feedback a lot.
We're looking for a React/Typescript & UI developer to join our 5-person development team building a new large-scale, greenfield product. Our design team provides thoughtful, comprehensive and high-fidelity mockups in Figma for pixel-perfect implementation. The team follows async-first communication/development practices, is highly supportive and egoless, focusing on the work and results first.
Please feel free to email [email protected] with a little background on yourself.
My name is Sean, and I'm a fractional CTO / full-stack developer. This is a project I joined up with a couple months ago. I figured the HN community would appreciate seeing our lean MVP.
We're solving that simple, pesky problem of oversized CDC vaccine cards not fitting in wallets (and getting torn to shreds in doing so). The web app allows you to scan your vaccine card, and we'll ship you a credit-card size plastic VaxCard that fits much better.
I'm happy to answer any questions (especially around technical and security details). I love sharing new products with this community (for some brutal honesty ;))!
Drawbackwards is a UX design & development agency in Tempe, AZ.
We're looking for a React/Typescript & UI developer to join our 5-person development team building a new large-scale, greenfield product. Our design team provides thoughtful, comprehensive and high-fidelity mockups in Figma for pixel-perfect implementation. The team follows async-first communication/development practices, is highly supportive and egoless, focusing on the work and results first.
Please feel free to email [email protected] with a little background on yourself.
Web Stack: Node/TypeScript/React/GraphQL/Postgres
https://flipos.com/jobs/full-stack-developer
If you're interested, please either email me with a quick overview of your experience / things you've built ([email protected]), or just apply at the link above and reference Sean Coleman.
P.S. no contrived white-boarding or tough algorithmic questions here! We’re a team of builders and craftspeople, focused on the end product.
FlipOS is building an end-to-end platform for Fix & Flip investors to work better and faster, from initial property search to final sale. We have ambitious goals to simplify and streamline the way homes are purchased, renovated, and sold across the US.
Web Stack: Node/TypeScript/React/GraphQL/Postgres
https://flipos.com/jobs/full-stack-developer
If you're interested, please either reach out to me with a quick overview of your experience / things you've built (email: [email protected], iMessage: +14806038850), or just apply at the link above and reference Sean Coleman.
P.S. no contrived white-boarding or tough algorithmic questions here! We’re a team of builders and craftspeople, focused on the end product.
I'm consulting with a small, bootstrapped company, and a security researcher responsibly disclosed an extremely serious issue that leaked root database credentials. Based on the vulnerability, I doubt this researcher spent a ton of time discovering the exploit, but the value to the company is (obviously) tremendous.I want to formally recommend a reward amount, but I know the company doesn't...
In an isolated instance, it may seem obvious that bcrypt is superior to SHA-2 (it sure is to me). But managing security posture at scale, across a massive enterprise with disparate teams is tough. Rogue groups make bad security decisions all the time. Committees are formed, and policies are put into place to guard against this. Auditors are charged to enforce those policies. Changing policy itself presents risk (both organizational and personal/job-related risk). Therefore committees are conservative with adapting to evolving environments.
This is the Occam's Razor explanation for why Things Just Don't Make Sense around many corporate IT security policies.
No, ad hoc updates shared as-needed
No, updates posted to a ticketing system (Linear, Jira, etc.)
Yes, async (Slack, etc.)
Yes, in-person
Yes, remotely (Zoom, etc.)
