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Yes, yes! I got really into the Voyager-inspiration vibes for a while and wrote this little short story about a secret "Voyager 3" mission - thought you might enjoy it: https://f52.charlieharrington.com/stories/voyager-3/

Folio | Backend / Product Engineers | REMOTE (US) | Full-time | https://folio.co

Hotel procurement's a $400B industry still running on spreadsheets and phone calls (and faxes!). We're bringing world-class AI search, web automations, and payment infra to this massive space. Folio is a first-of-its-kind marketplace connecting hotels + restaurants with their hundreds of suppliers using our AI-driven concierge-buying, invoice processing, and agentic payments.

Open Roles:

Our 16-person team hails from Plaid, Square, Persona, Slack, and Cruise. We're fully-remote with a hub in San Francisco, NYC, and Durham, and we meet up quarterly at one of our 300+ hotel partners.

- Software Engineer, Product (Full Stack) • Build the marketplace and payments experience that hotel buyers and suppliers love: https://folio.co/jobs/software-engineer-fullstack

- Software Engineer, Backend • Scale our marketplace infrastructure, search, and payment systems: https://folio.co/jobs/software-engineer-backend

Tech Stack: Rails, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, Elasticsearch, DBT, Snowflake

We're at your service: https://folio.co/careers

Neat - what are you doing with SSH at Mocha?

Folio | Multiple Roles | REMOTE (US) | Full-time | https://folio.co

Hotel procurement is a $400B industry still running on spreadsheets and phone calls. We're bringing world-class search, web automations, and payment infra to this massive but under-technologized space. Folio is a first-of-its-kind managed marketplace connecting hotels with their hundreds of suppliers using our AI-driven concierge buying, invoice processing, and payments.

Open Roles:

Our 10-person team hails from Plaid, Square, Persona, and Cruise. We're fully-remote with a hub in San Francisco, and we meet up quarterly at one of our 300+ hotel partners.

- Software Engineer, Product (Full Stack) • Build the marketplace and payments experience that hotel buyers and suppliers love

- Software Engineer, Backend • Scale our marketplace infrastructure, search, and payment systems

- Client Success Specialist • Help hotels optimize their procurement and maximize savings

Tech Stack: Rails, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, Elasticsearch

We're at your service: https://folio.co/careers

Somewhat similar to my answer (borrowed from children's publisher Klutz Press): "Create wonderful things, be good, have fun"

https://charlieharrington.com/create-wonderful-things-be-goo...

I think about this book ALL the time. It was way more terrifying than calming to me. But still absolutely love it / haunted by it.

Love this book. I did a short interview with the author Brian Dear about his writing tools + process a while back. Perhaps my favorite anecdote is that he started working on this book in 1985, using MSDOS and later a NeXT cube for his notes. The authorial process truly experienced the full gamut of personal storage mediums over the years.

https://writeswith.com/interviews/brian-dear/

I wrote a short story about AR + "Golden Compass"-style daemons a few years ago. Feels like we're inching closer:

https://f52.charlieharrington.com/stories/the-correctives/

My friend Oz has a few resources here that many have found helpful (me included!)

* https://teachyourselfcs.com - book list and open course suggestions

* https://csprimer.com - Oz's own curriculum for CS fundamentals

The memories! I once wrote a short story once about the “other” last Blockbuster - a place where your VHS videos might just let you truly relive your past, at some great cost, of course. Anyway, I love when weird stuff like this comes to dwell on GitHub.

Here’s the story

https://f52.charlieharrington.com/stories/the-other-last-blo...

It’s more CS education and learning focused, but my friend Oz and I have been doing the CS Primer Show for the last year. Had a brief hiatus for more family time, but we’ll be back in August with more chats and whatnot about Bell Labs and other computer science fun.

https://show.csprimer.com

Also YouTube version: https://youtube.com/@cs_primer

Discovering Piet is a special moment of awe and confusion and wonder. Mine was captured in this chat with my friend Oz in our Computer Science podcast “The CS Primer Show”: https://show.csprimer.com/episodes/e2-dont-let-a-gpt-have-al...

Sucker for any news about the voyage of the Golden Record (almost but not quite a CS Lewis title)! For fun, I wrote a short story two years ago about a top-secret "Voyager 3" mission (and the probe's unexpected return to Earth): https://f52.charlieharrington.com/stories/voyager-3/

Last year I wrote a weird short story about a top-secret "Voyager 3" mission (and the probe's unexpected return to Earth): https://f52.charlieharrington.com/stories/voyager-3/

Thanks - it’s fun to see what you can string together and keep everything free, too.