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Eclyps | 3 years ago | on: How PlanetScale Boost serves SQL queries faster

I just started using Planetscale for small projects here and there. More and more of my projects are FE-heavy and don't require a big dedicated database (NextJS apps, mostly hardcoded designs or headless CMS like Sanity). There are times where I need to store just small bits of data, maybe contact form submissions or something. It's been super great to be able to quickly hook up planetscale to a nextjs api function and have that data persisted within a matter of minutes.

I've yet to use it on anything large-scale, though, so I can't speak to performance when you're really pushing it.

Eclyps | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?

I've always just leveraged existing connections. I'm not great at selling myself, but I've done a lot of good work for a handful of people that ARE good at talking me up. Reach out to people that you've done good work for and let them know that you are looking for some side gigs. You might not get anything right away, but things could start trickling in. This has opened up a lot of opportunities for me.

Eclyps | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)

Slytrunk | BE Node Developer | Fulltime | Remote (US only) | slytrunk.com

Slytrunk is a small team of technical experts focused on developing beautiful software applications with a range of incredible clients. We're looking for a skilled back-end engineer, ideally with strong node experience [0]

We're a very small team with some really awesome clients/projects. All of us are remote, but are highly collaborative. Slytrunk was founded 11 years ago by two engineers and to this day continues to be engineer-focused. Check out the links for more information. Applications go directly to the CEO and founders. Even if you'd like more info before applying, feel free to drop us a line and we can provide you more details.

[0] https://www.notion.so/slytrunk/Software-Developer-BE-focused...

Eclyps | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)

Slytrunk | FE React Developer, BE Node Developer | Fulltime | Remote (US only) | slytrunk.com Slytrunk is a small team of technical experts focused on developing beautiful software applications with a range of incredible clients.

We're looking for:

- a skilled front-end engineer with React experience [0]

- a skilled back-end engineer, ideally with strong node experience [1]

We're a very small team with some really awesome clients/projects. All of us are remote, but are highly collaborative. Slytrunk was founded 11 years ago by two engineers and to this day continues to be engineer-focused. Check out the links for more information. Applications go directly to the CEO and founders. Even if you'd like more info before applying, feel free to drop us a line and we can provide you more details.

[0] https://www.notion.so/slytrunk/Software-Developer-FE-focused...

[1] https://www.notion.so/slytrunk/Software-Developer-BE-focused...

Eclyps | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)

Slytrunk | FE React Developer, BE Node Developer | Fulltime | Remote (US only) | slytrunk.com Slytrunk is a small team of technical experts focused on developing beautiful software applications with a range of incredible clients.

We're looking for:

- a skilled front-end engineer with React experience [0]

- a skilled back-end engineer, ideally with strong node experience [1]

We're a very small team with some really awesome clients/projects. All of us are remote, but are highly collaborative. Slytrunk was founded 11 years ago by two engineers and to this day continues to be engineer-focused. Check out the links for more information. Applications go directly to the CEO and founders. Even if you'd like more info before applying, feel free to drop us a line and we can provide you more details.

[0] https://www.notion.so/slytrunk/Software-Developer-FE-focused...

[1] https://www.notion.so/slytrunk/Software-Developer-BE-focused...

Eclyps | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)

Slytrunk | React Developer | Fulltime | Remote (US only) | slytrunk.com Slytrunk is a small team of technical experts focused on developing beautiful software applications with a range of incredible clients. We're looking for a skilled front-end engineer with React experience [0]

We're a very small team with some really awesome clients/projects. All of us are remote, but are highly collaborative. Slytrunk was founded 11 years ago by two engineers and to this day continues to be engineer-focused. Check out the links for more information. Applications go directly to the CEO and founders. Even if you'd like more info before applying, feel free to drop us a line and we can provide you more details.

[0] https://www.notion.so/Software-Developer-FE-focused-9ddc55fd...

Eclyps | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)

Slytrunk | React Developer | Fulltime | Remote (US only) | slytrunk.com Slytrunk is a small team of technical experts focused on developing beautiful software applications with a range of incredible clients.

We're looking for a skilled front-end engineer with React experience [0]

We're a very small team with some really awesome clients/projects. All of us are remote, but are highly collaborative. Slytrunk was founded 11 years ago by two engineers and to this day continues to be engineer-focused. Check out the links for more information. Applications go directly to the CEO and founders. Even if you'd like more info before applying, feel free to drop us a line and we can provide you more details.

[0] https://www.notion.so/Software-Developer-FE-focused-9ddc55fd...

Eclyps | 6 years ago | on: Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract

There’s not much to the article right now (developing story), but how big of a blow is this to Amazon? And how big of a boon to Microsoft? I realize that this is likely because of the people that I surround myself with, but I don’t know anybody who actually uses Azure. Is Azure’s core business large corporations/government?

Eclyps | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)

Slytrunk | Data Engineer | Fulltime | Remote (US only) | slytrunk.com

Slytrunk is a small team of technical experts focused on developing beautiful software applications with a range of incredible clients.

We're currently looking to onboard a Data Engineer [0].

The Data Engineer is responsible for building out and managing our Apache & DataStax Cassandra and Solr clusters as a replacement for our existing MySQL databases. The engineer will be responsible for working with Dev and infrastructure teams to; upgrade, manage, optimize, monitor, etc.. our Cassandra and Solr clusters.

This opportunity will require expertise of Cassandra key concepts such as SSTables, compaction, and garbage collection, as well as Solr concepts such as; core, schema, indexes, and field types. This is a ground floor opportunity to be responsible for DevOps and production support of the new Cassandra and Solr clusters you help design and build.

We're a very small team with some really awesome clients/projects. All of us are remote, but are highly collaborative. Slytrunk was founded 10 years ago by two engineers and to this day continues to be engineer-focused. Check out the links for more information. Applications go directly to the CEO and founders. Even if you'd like more info before applying, feel free to drop us a line and we can provide you more details.

[0] http://bit.ly/sly-data-engineer

Eclyps | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)

Slytrunk | Node Developer, React Developer, Data Engineer | Fulltime | Remote (US only) | slytrunk.com

Slytrunk is a small team of technical experts focused on developing beautiful software applications with a range of incredible clients.

We're looking for skilled engineers for the following roles:

  - Back-end engineer with a strong Node background [0]
  - Front-end engineer with a strong React background [1]
  - Data Engineer with strong experience with distributed data systems (Cassandra, Kafka, etc) [2]
We're a very small team with some really awesome clients/projects. All of us are remote, but are highly collaborative. Slytrunk was founded 10 years ago by two engineers and to this day continues to be engineer-focused. Check out the links for more information. Applications go directly to the CEO and founders. Even if you'd like more info before applying, feel free to drop us a line and we can provide you more details.

[0] http://bit.ly/sly-software-dev

[1] http://bit.ly/sly-frontend-dev

[2] http://bit.ly/sly-data-engineer

Eclyps | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

Slytrunk | Front-end, Back-end, and/or Mobile | Fulltime | Remote (US only) | slytrunk.com

Slytrunk is a team of highly skilled, senior software engineers and sports executives with experience building digital products across all major platforms - browser (mobile, tablet, desktop), native mobile/tablet (iOS, Android) and connected TV devices (Apple TV, Fire TV, Chromecast, Samsung SmartTV). We pride ourselves in creating a true partnership with our clients to make their goals a reality. In addition to our extensive development experience, we also have decades of visual design and product management experience.

We're looking for skilled software engineers for the following roles:

  - back-end: node, python, and/or php preferred
  - front-end: primarily react
  - mobile: strong iOS and/or Android, with React Native as a plus
We're a very small team with some really awesome clients/projects. All of us are remote, but are highly collaborative.

Drop a line to [email protected] (our CEO) if you are interested in seeing what we're all about!

Eclyps | 7 years ago | on: SubEthaEdit 5 is now free and open source

I know that this doesn't make use of Sublime, but you could give Cloud9 a shot. I've used it for pair programming and it's actually pretty nice on that front, especially if you're just helping beginners understand things because you end up sharing the entire environment, not just your IDE.

https://docs.c9.io/docs/share-a-workspace

Sorry I can't help on the Sublime side - I've tried Floobits with moderate success, but understand your need for something that's more "plug and play".

Eclyps | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)

GalaxE.Solutions | Detroit, MI | Full-time On-site

Looking for passionate, skilled web-oriented developers that like to work on interesting projects. Most of our work is client-based, but we have some awesome clients, all within walking distance of our office right on Campus Martius.

Current openings:

- .NET Web Developers (C#, strong with building restful APIs)

- Angular Developers (any version, but preferred 2+)

- Salesforce Engineers (strong understanding of best practices, interested in moving forward with DX)

- AWS DevOps (experience moving enterprise systems to the cloud)

- QA Engineers (strong scripting, automated testing skills)

- Node.js (bonus if you have experience with Machine Learning!)

Passion, enthusiasm, interest in the technology that you work with are all requirements. We want people to run with their ideas, and the relationships with our clients allows us to do so.

If you don't fit any of the roles that I listed above but are passionate about technology and live in/around Detroit, please reach out anyway. We are always looking for talented individuals and I would love to speak with you.

Contact me directly - [email protected]. I'm the Director of Technology at the Detroit office and will respond to you personally.

Eclyps | 8 years ago | on: History of AOL Warez

From the comments of the post: http://justinakapaste.com/category/aol-progs/

I was getting super nostalgic reading it, but when I started scrolling through these screenshots... my god, the memories just came flooding back. They all have a distinctly "warez" look, even though they are wildly different from one another.

Eclyps | 8 years ago | on: History of AOL Warez

This brings back so many memories... this is where I really started my "programming" with Visual Basic 4, hunting the web for .bas files that I could load into my own VB project to create 1337 rainbow text in my IMs, punting users, trying to work around the rate limiting that they added to chatrooms... it's incredible that the AOL warez scene is essential the catalyst for my now successful career in technology 20+ years later.

Eclyps | 8 years ago | on: Designing state machines

I used this for a huge project with a lot of states. Separated my workflow out into individual files for each class so they could just be included at the top. Then for each transition method, I created a service object (Interactor gem[1]) to handle all of my complicated transition logic, so the object-level transition methods would just check for a success or failure and perform the transition appropriately. Really love how it turned out.

[1] https://github.com/collectiveidea/interactor

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