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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @10:11PM (#48755601)
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTMX, Datastar, Tailwind, Vue, React, Node, Bun, PHP, Laravel, Drupal, Wordpress, C, Zig, Odin, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Sqlite, AWS, GCP, Azure and more

Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos(dot)com

Email: spiro(at)spirofloropoulos(dot)com

Recently built a pure C http server, by hand, with an online game bundled into it, in C, by hand, served on a website as a modern spin on MUD (multi-user dungeons). Also, recently built a vanilla (no 3rd party libs no AI) html/css/js with css3d card game - https://spirofloropoulos.com/css3dtabletop

Full-stack web, software and game developer, specializing in high-performance, minimal-dependency solutions. Available as an individual contributor, lead developer, or consultant. I excel at simple, efficient code and pushing web technologies to their limits. Can mentor teams or bring expertise to complex projects.

Proven track record of building multi-million dollar websites from scratch to production.

Stellar references.

Also experienced in technical streaming (online content), community engagement, and mentoring developers on modern dev practices.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) on Monday June 01, 2026 @11:19PM (#48365577)
Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: HTMX, Datastar, Tailwind, Vue, React, Node, Bun, PHP, Laravel, Drupal, Wordpress, C, Zig, Odin, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Sqlite, AWS, GCP, Azure and more Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos(dot)com Email: spiro(at)spirofloropoulos(dot)com

Recently built a pure C http server, by hand, with an online game bundled into it, in C, by hand, served on a website as a modern spin on MUD (multi-user dungeons). Also, recently built a vanilla (no 3rd party libs no AI) html/css/js with css3d card game - https://spirofloropoulos.com/css3dtabletop

Full-stack web, software and game developer, specializing in high-performance, minimal-dependency solutions. Available as an individual contributor, lead developer, or consultant. I excel at simple, efficient code and pushing web technologies to their limits. Can mentor teams or bring expertise to complex projects.

Proven track record of building multi-million dollar websites from scratch to production.

Stellar references.

Also experienced in technical streaming (online content), community engagement, and mentoring developers on modern dev practices.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026) on Friday May 01, 2026 @11:20AM (#47975852)
Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: HTMX, Datastar, Tailwind, Vue, React, Node, Bun, PHP, Laravel, Drupal, Wordpress, C, Zig, Odin, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Sqlite, AWS, GCP, Azure and more Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos(dot)com

Email: spiro(at)spirofloropoulos(dot)com

Recently built a pure C http server, by hand, with an online game bundled into it, in C, by hand, served on a website as a modern spin on MUD (multi-user dungeons). Also, recently built a vanilla (no 3rd party libs no AI) html/css/js with css3d card game - https://spirofloropoulos.com/css3dtabletop

Full-stack web, software and game developer, specializing in high-performance, minimal-dependency solutions. Available as an individual contributor, lead developer, or consultant. I excel at simple, efficient code and pushing web technologies to their limits. Can mentor teams or bring expertise to complex projects.

Proven track record of building multi-million dollar websites from scratch to production.

Stellar references.

Also experienced in technical streaming (online content), community engagement, and mentoring developers on modern dev practices.

Re:The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s on Saturday April 04, 2026 @02:57AM (#47636578)
Yep. Covered this many moons ago. I have a few episodes on this on my youtube.

https://youtu.be/E6yg5Rj9owk

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026) on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @12:44PM (#47603295)
Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: HTMX, Datastar, Tailwind, Vue, React, Node, Bun, PHP, Laravel, Drupal, Wordpress, C, Zig, Odin, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Sqlite, AWS, GCP, Azure and more

Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos(dot)com

Email: spiro(at)spirofloropoulos(dot)com

Recently built a pure C http server, by hand, with an online game bundled into it, in C, by hand, served on a website as a modern spin on MUD (multi-user dungeons). Also, recently built a vanilla (no 3rd party libs no AI) html/css/js with css3d card game - https://spirofloropoulos.com/css3dtabletop

Full-stack web, software and game developer, specializing in high-performance, minimal-dependency solutions. Available as an individual contributor, lead developer, or consultant. I excel at simple, efficient code and pushing web technologies to their limits. Can mentor teams or bring expertise to complex projects.

Proven track record of building multi-million dollar websites from scratch to production.

Stellar references.

Also experienced in technical streaming (online content), community engagement, and mentoring developers on modern dev practices.

Re:Doom entirely from DNS records on Thursday March 26, 2026 @11:36PM (#47538874)
I covered another use case for this last year:

https://youtu.be/mjSdHHJySDk

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026) on Monday March 02, 2026 @11:37AM (#47220303)
Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTMX, Datastar, Tailwind, Vue, React, Node, Bun, PHP, Laravel, Drupal, Wordpress, C, Zig, Odin, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Sqlite, AWS, GCP, Azure and more

Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos(dot)com

Email: spiro(at)spirofloropoulos(dot)com

Recently built a pure C http server, by hand, with an online game bundled into it, in C, by hand, served on a website as a modern spin on MUD (multi-user dungeons). Also, recently built a vanilla (no 3rd party libs no AI) html/css/js with css3d card game - https://spirofloropoulos.com/css3dtabletop

Full-stack web, software and game developer, specializing in high-performance, minimal-dependency solutions. Available as an individual contributor, lead developer, or consultant. I excel at simple, efficient code and pushing web technologies to their limits. Can mentor teams or bring expertise to complex projects.

Proven track record of building multi-million dollar websites from scratch to production.

Stellar references.

Also experienced in technical streaming (online content), community engagement, and mentoring developers on modern dev practices.

Show HN: Purely Vibe Coded Asmongold Simulator

https://spirofloropoulos.com/asmongold_simulator/

I hate AI (as it currently is and currently is used) and I've avoided doing a purely vibe coded project for a long time. Any time I even attempted to vibe code for a few minutes, I immediately felt disgust.For research purposes, I gave this a proper go and created an Asmongold Simulator game.My opinion hasn't changed on "vibe coding"

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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) on Monday February 09, 2026 @04:39AM (#46943418)
vanilla css 3d, js, html programmer card game

no 3rd party libraries

no AI, everything is done by hand (so it looks stupid cause I'm not a graphics designer by any stretch of the imagination)

http://spirofloropoulos.com/css3dtabletop

Re:Project Cybersyn on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @07:44AM (#46691234)
I covered this, in full, in depth and detail, on one of my streams.

https://www.youtube.com/live/UI8u4BLGJA0?si=JssmdJFR6uW55t1P...

lol ok lil bro, the creator of one of the worst paradigms of the last decade in tech
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2025) on Monday September 01, 2025 @11:06AM (#45093247)
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE (anywhere)

Recently built a pure C http server, by hand, with an online game bundled into it, in C, by hand, served on a website as a modern spin on MUD (multi-user dungeons). Currently on uwnhremake.com if you want to try it. (note: alpha version)

Full-stack web, software and game developer, specializing in high-performance, minimal-dependency solutions. Available as an individual contributor, lead developer, or consultant. I excel at simple, efficient code and pushing web technologies to their limits. Can mentor teams or bring expertise to complex projects.

Proven track record of building multi-million dollar websites from scratch to production.

Stellar references.

Also experienced in technical streaming (online content), community engagement, and mentoring developers on modern dev practices.

Resume & Contact - https://spirofloropoulos.com | spiro(at)spirofloropoulos.com

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025) on Monday September 01, 2025 @11:06AM (#45093243)
Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTMX, Datastar, Tailwind, Vue, React, Node, Bun, PHP, Laravel, Drupal, Wordpress, C, Zig, Odin, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Sqlite, AWS, GCP, Azure and more

Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos(dot)com

Email: spiro(at)spirofloropoulos(dot)com

Recently built a pure C http server, by hand, with an online game bundled into it, in C, by hand, served on a website as a modern spin on MUD (multi-user dungeons). Currently on uwnhremake.com if you want to try it. (note: alpha version)

Full-stack web, software and game developer, specializing in high-performance, minimal-dependency solutions. Available as an individual contributor, lead developer, or consultant. I excel at simple, efficient code and pushing web technologies to their limits. Can mentor teams or bring expertise to complex projects.

Proven track record of building multi-million dollar websites from scratch to production.

Stellar references.

Also experienced in technical streaming (online content), community engagement, and mentoring developers on modern dev practices.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025) on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @01:49PM (#44436359)
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML/CSS/JS, Tailwind, Vue, React, Node, Bun,

PHP, Laravel, Drupal, Wordpress, C, Zig, Odin, MongoDB,

MySQL, Postgres, Sqlite, AWS, GCP, Azure and more

Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos(dot)com

Email: spiro(at)spirofloropoulos(dot)com

Full-stack web, software and game developer, specializing in high-performance, minimal-dependency solutions. Available as an individual contributor, lead developer, or consultant. Passion for simple, efficient code and pushing web technologies to their limits. Can mentor teams or bring expertise to complex projects.

Proven track record of building multi-million dollar websites from scratch to production.

Expert-level HTMX, C, Zig, Odin, WebAssembly, vanilla C/HTML/JS/CSS, PHP.

Proficient in Laravel and game dev frameworks.

Also experienced in technical streaming, community engagement, and mentoring developers on modern dev practices.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025) on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @01:44PM (#44436327)
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE (anywhere)

Full-stack web, software and game developer, specializing in high-performance, minimal-dependency solutions. Available as an individual contributor, lead developer, or consultant. Passion for simple, efficient code and pushing web technologies to their limits. Can mentor teams or bring expertise to complex projects.

Proven track record of building multi-million dollar websites from scratch to production.

Expert-level HTMX, C, Zig, Odin, WebAssembly, vanilla C/HTML/JS/CSS, PHP.

Proficient in Laravel and game dev frameworks.

Also experienced in technical streaming, community engagement, and mentoring developers on modern dev practices.

Specialties:

High-performance web development with HTMX and vanilla JS

WebAssembly and C/Zig/Odin for game and web projects

Offline mode implementation for web apps

Indie game development

Performance optimization and legacy code refactoring

API design and integration

Technical mentoring and team alignment

Resume & Contact - https://spirofloropoulos.com | spiro(at)spirofloropoulos.com

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2025) on Monday June 02, 2025 @01:55PM (#44161366)
SEEKING WORK | Vancouver, BC | Remote Only Technologies: HTMX, WASM, HTML, CSS, JS, WebAssembly, C, Odin, Node/Bun, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Laravel, PHP and more Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos.com

Email: spirodonfl at gmail dot com

I've been programming for almost 25 years now. My skills range from websites to desktop applications to native mobile apps and more.

I created https://github.com/spirodonfl/htmx-offline-mode.

You can look at over a years worth of content where I build a video game in Zig, Odin and now C, compiled to WASM, running on the browser with no hardware acceleration, no canvas, no webgpu, no webgl, vanilla HTML, vanilla CSS (and css3d, btw), vanilla JS, all div elements, just to show it's possible. https://www.youtube.com/@SpiroFloropoulos

Team engagement, mentoring, hiring, devrel, content creation are all additional skills to programming. Building fast, robust, websites and applications is my bread and butter.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2025) on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:01PM (#43864762)
SEEKING WORK | Vancouver, BC | Remote Only Technologies: HTMX, WASM, HTML, CSS, JS, WebAssembly, C, Odin, Node/Bun, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Laravel, PHP and more

Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos.com

Email: spirodonfl at gmail dot com

I've been programming for almost 25 years now. My skills range from websites to desktop applications to native mobile apps and more.

I created https://github.com/spirodonfl/htmx-offline-mode.

You can look at over a years worth of content where I build a video game in Zig, Odin and now C, compiled to WASM, running on the browser with no hardware acceleration, no canvas, no webgpu, no webgl, vanilla HTML, vanilla CSS (and css3d, btw), vanilla JS, all div elements, just to show it's possible. https://www.youtube.com/@SpiroFloropoulos

Team engagement, mentoring, hiring, devrel, content creation are all additional skills to programming. Building fast, simple, websites and applications is my bread and butter.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025) on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:00PM (#43864755)
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Remote: Remote only

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: HTMX, WASM, HTML, CSS, JS, WebAssembly, C, Odin, Node/Bun, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Laravel, PHP and more

Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos.com

Email: spirodonfl at gmail dot com

I've been programming for almost 25 years now. My skills range from websites to desktop applications to native mobile apps and more.

I created https://github.com/spirodonfl/htmx-offline-mode.

You can look at over a years worth of content where I build a video game in Zig, Odin and now C, compiled to WASM, running on the browser with no hardware acceleration, no canvas, no webgpu, no webgl, vanilla HTML, vanilla CSS (and css3d, btw), vanilla JS, all div elements, just to show it's possible. https://www.youtube.com/@SpiroFloropoulos

Team engagement, mentoring, hiring, devrel, content creation are all additional skills to programming. Building fast, simple, websites and applications is my bread and butter.

A shockingly underrated statement these days. Couldn't agree more.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025) on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @01:19PM (#43549290)
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Remote: Remote only

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: HTMX, WASM, HTML, CSS, JS, WebAssembly, C, Odin, Node/Bun, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Laravel, PHP and more

Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos.com

Email: spirodonfl at gmail dot com

I created https://github.com/spirodonfl/htmx-offline-mode.

I've been programming for almost 25 years now. My skills range from websites to desktop applications to native mobile apps and more.

You can look at over a years worth of content where I build a video game in Zig, Odin and now C, compiled to WASM, running on the browser with no hardware acceleration, no canvas, no webgpu, no webgl, vanilla HTML, vanilla CSS (and css3d, btw), vanilla JS, all div elements, just to show it's possible. https://www.youtube.com/@SpiroFloropoulos

Team engagement, mentoring, hiring, devrel, content creation are all additional skills.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2025) on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @01:18PM (#43549278)
SEEKING WORK | Vancouver, BC | Remote Only

Technologies: HTMX, WASM, HTML, CSS, JS, WebAssembly, C, Odin, Node/Bun, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Laravel, PHP and more

Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos.com

Email: spirodonfl at gmail dot com

I created https://github.com/spirodonfl/htmx-offline-mode.

I've been programming for almost 25 years now. My skills range from websites to desktop applications to native mobile apps and more.

You can look at over a years worth of content where I build a video game in Zig, Odin and now C, compiled to WASM, running on the browser with no hardware acceleration, no canvas, no webgpu, no webgl, vanilla HTML, vanilla CSS (and css3d, btw), vanilla JS, all div elements, just to show it's possible. https://www.youtube.com/@SpiroFloropoulos

Team engagement, mentoring, hiring, devrel, content creation are all additional skills.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2025) on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:03PM (#42924621)
SEEKING WORK | Vancouver, BC | Remote Only

Technologies: HTMX, HTML, CSS, JS, WebAssembly, C, Node/Bun, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Laravel, PHP and more

Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos.com

Email: spirodonfl at gmail dot com

I created https://github.com/spirodonfl/htmx-offline-mode.

I've been programming for almost 25 years now. I've built everything from websites to desktop application to native mobile apps and more.

I have over a years worth of content where I build a video game in Zig, Odin and now C, compiled to WASM, running on the browser with no hardware acceleration, no canvas, no webgpu, no webgl, just to show it's possible. https://www.youtube.com/@SpiroFloropoulos

I can help with team management (hiring or building a team) of programmers.

I can mentor.

I can do developer relations work.

I can create content (video and written).

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025) on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:02PM (#42924613)
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Remote: Remote only

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: HTMX, HTML, CSS, JS, WebAssembly, C, Node/Bun, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Laravel, PHP and more

Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos.com

Email: spirodonfl at gmail dot com

I created https://github.com/spirodonfl/htmx-offline-mode.

I've been programming for almost 25 years now.

I have over a years worth of content where I build a video game in Zig, Odin and now C, compiled to WASM, running on the browser with no hardware acceleration, no canvas, no webgpu, no webgl, just to show it's possible. https://www.youtube.com/@SpiroFloropoulos

I can help with team management (hiring or building a team) of programmers.

I can mentor.

I can do developer relations work.

I can create content (video and written).

Re:The Future of Htmx on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @12:45AM (#42619648)
Based
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025) on Thursday January 02, 2025 @11:08AM (#42575632)
SEEKING WORK | Vancouver, BC | Remote Only

Technologies: HTMX, HTML, CSS, JS, WebAssembly, C, Node/Bun, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Laravel, PHP and more

Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos.com

Email: spirodonfl at gmail dot com

I created https://github.com/spirodonfl/htmx-offline-mode.

I've been programming for almost 25 years now.

I have over a years worth of content where I build a video in Zig, Odin and now C, compiled to WASM, running on the browser with no hardware acceleration, no canvas, no webgpu, no webgl, just to show it's possible. https://www.youtube.com/@SpiroFloropoulos

I can help with team management (hiring or building a team) of programmers.

I can mentor.

I can do developer relations work.

I can create content (video and written).

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025) on Thursday January 02, 2025 @11:07AM (#42575621)
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Remote: Remote only

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: HTMX, HTML, CSS, JS, WebAssembly, C, Node/Bun, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Laravel, PHP and more

Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos.com

Email: spirodonfl at gmail dot com

I created https://github.com/spirodonfl/htmx-offline-mode.

I've been programming for almost 25 years now.

I have over a years worth of content where I build a video in Zig, Odin and now C, compiled to WASM, running on the browser with no hardware acceleration, no canvas, no webgpu, no webgl, just to show it's possible. https://www.youtube.com/@SpiroFloropoulos

I can help with team management (hiring or building a team) of programmers.

I can mentor.

I can do developer relations work.

I can create content (video and written).

Re:Htmx 2.0.4 Released on Saturday December 14, 2024 @02:30PM (#42418930)
True. Literally ZERO people on here have any idea what you're talking about. Generalization confirmed as fact.
Re:Htmx 2.0.4 Released on Saturday December 14, 2024 @02:29PM (#42418928)
Go off King!
Re:Htmx 2.0.4 Released on Saturday December 14, 2024 @11:27AM (#42417992)
Who hurt you?

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