wprl
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:24PM (#49936116)
Location: UTC−06:00 = US Central Time Zone = Columbia, MO, United States
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: Python, Node.js, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and many, many more
Résumé/CV: Available on request
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/willprl
Email: [email protected]
Work authorization: US Citizen
I'm here to deliver a stable, maintainable, and high-performance implementation of your vision, whether we're talking greenfield, new features, or taming failure modes. Currently focused on remote, heads-down contract work.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @04:45PM (#49527963)
Location: UTC−06:00 = US Central Time Zone = Columbia, MO, United States
Remote: Preferred
Technologies: Python, Node.js, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and many, many more
Résumé/CV: Available on request
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/willprl
Email: [email protected]
Work authorization: US Citizen
Seasoned programmer with 12+ years experience building, integrating, testing, and operating software for the enterprise, start ups, and open source projects.
I'm here to deliver a stable, maintainable, and high-performance implementation of your vision, whether we're talking greenfield, new features, or taming failure modes. Currently focused on remote, heads-down contract work.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024)
on Monday June 03, 2024 @12:56PM (#40564595)
Location: United States
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, Linux, and many more
Résumé/CV: https://kun.io/wprl-resume.pdf
Email: [email protected]
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2024)
on Monday April 01, 2024 @04:56PM (#39899226)
SEEKING WORK | Accomplished Software Engineer
Location: Midwest, USA
Remote: Yes, please
Willing to relocate: No, but willing to commute within reason
Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, AWS, Docker, Podman
Résumé/CV: https://kun.io/wprl-resume.pdf
Email: william [at] kun [dot] io
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)
on Monday April 01, 2024 @04:34PM (#39898943)
Location: Midwest, USA
Remote: Yes, please
Willing to relocate: No, but willing to commute within reason
Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, AWS, Docker, Podman
Résumé/CV: https://kun.io/wprl-resume.pdf
Email: william [at] kun [dot] io
Re:Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry
on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:04AM (#36630426)
You may have answered your own question. Perhaps centralization is the point as we move closer to the “extinguish” phase of open source as we have known it.
Re:A guidance language for controlling LLMs
on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @07:22AM (#35973774)
The hubris of mutating spiritual texts as a marketing gimmick is contemptible.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023)
on Monday May 01, 2023 @07:32PM (#35780791)
Hi, I’m William Riley-Land.
Senior Software Engineer (Individual Contributor)
Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript, AWS
Location: Columbia, MO, United States
Remote: only
Relocate: no
Résumé: available on request
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/willprl
Email:[email protected]
Re:Tech’s hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required
on Sunday February 26, 2023 @07:12PM (#34951288)
Maybe “generic and meaningless” is a better descriptor.
Re:GPT Spiritual Avisor
on Friday February 24, 2023 @09:39AM (#34924896)
This is gross.
Re:Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has students corre...
on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @10:00AM (#34881907)
I can’t tell if people just don’t understand how ChatGPT works or if there is another reason they are eager to dehumanize themselves and the rest of us along with them.
Re:Unpacking the Benefits of Zero Trust Architecture as Defined by NIST
on Saturday February 18, 2023 @07:10PM (#34852569)
Thanks. I learned something. Even if passwords are a weak form of security, they add an extra Ayer that would make it much more difficult for an attacker. They don’t have to be the only layer of security, and would still be good as an extra layer on top of hardware keys and/or OS keychains. Very interesting.
Re:Food coloring, anti-caking nanoparticles may affect human gut
on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @07:35PM (#34813233)
Who would have thought? Eating sand is bad for you…
Re:Go claims telemetry objectors arguing in bad faith and violating Co...
on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:34AM (#34773842)
I had been about to devote some time to learning Go, but definitely won’t be after these latest developments.
Re:Is This Poison Ivy? A 55-Question Quiz
on Friday February 03, 2023 @07:30PM (#34649891)
This video about how to wash off poison ivy changed my life. The key is that urushiol acts a lot like invisible motor oil in terms of how it sticks to your skin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oyoDRHpQK0
Re:Is This Poison Ivy? A 55-Question Quiz
on Friday February 03, 2023 @07:21PM (#34649802)
"Hairy rope, don't be a dope"
Re:Department of Public Affairs – BT-002
on Monday January 30, 2023 @08:58PM (#34589877)
You can add the Fira ligatures to any font with Ligaturizer. Personally I use it with CMU Typewriter.
Re:ChatGPT and the Enshittening of Knowledge
on Friday January 27, 2023 @11:06AM (#34547564)
> AI can experience the same rabbit-hole effect as your idiot cousin who has watched too many of the algorithmically suggested videos on Youtube and now believes that aliens conspired with a time travelling Elvis to kill Hitler using a bullet made of Yeti teeth. And they only went online looking for TellyTubbies videos.
LOL Thank you, I needed a good laugh!
Re:What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?
on Thursday January 26, 2023 @10:08AM (#34532531)
When I looked into this a little bit, I found Copilot for Business states they do not record any of the info you send them. Though obviously you are still sending out code to a third party. I could not find any info about their policies for “normal” Copilot which I assume means they are recording all the code sent to it and using our code to further train the model.
Re:Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal (recent) technology yo...
on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:35PM (#34507899)
I suppose this is nit picking, however that is not in the style of a Psalm.
Re:Gptcommit: Never write a commit message again (with the help of GPT-3)
on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:28PM (#34469428)
Hey, at least they referenced the (hopefully appropriate) JIRA ticket!
Re:Unexpected ways generative AI will change how you work forever
on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:04PM (#34436570)
As Chomsky points out, the AIs understand syntax not semantics. Code is all (or almost all) syntax whereas human language has both syntax and meaning. Meaning is not something ChatGPT understands.
Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages
on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @06:46PM (#34434796)
I found Dahl’s approach to packages with Deno very interesting. It decouples package management from the runtime’s tool chain. So a package manager isn’t needed. (Instead a proxy can be used as a cache similar to how an artifact registry would work.)
Re:Zeno's Paradox
on Friday January 13, 2023 @09:52PM (#34376918)
It’s easy. Just try to go twice as far, then you’ll be there after the first iteration.
Or keep halving until you reach the Planck length. This length cannot be divided into smaller lengths, so you can just walk the remaining finite distance.
Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended
on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:07PM (#33986445)
And preventing the triggered and willful spread of disinformation about our elections and public health is not a safety issue??
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2022)
on Thursday December 01, 2022 @03:32PM (#33822300)
SEEKING WORK
Location: Columbia, MO, USA (UTC-6)
Remote: Yes (Remote Only)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, React
Résumé/CV: https://docdro.id/NZms8mA
Email: [email protected]
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2022)
on Thursday December 01, 2022 @03:08PM (#33821985)
Location: Columbia, MO, USA (UTC-6)
Remote: Yes (Remote Only)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, React
Résumé/CV: https://docdro.id/NZms8mA
Email: [email protected]In Defense of TODO Comments
Re:This will make some people mad (JS/Dart)
on Friday September 12, 2014 @11:20AM (#8308484)
Really, coding in JavaScript is hardly worse than most other languages.