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daxhuiberts | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)

  Location: Netherlands (GMT+1)
  Remote: Yes, I love remote teams but also enjoy getting together in person on occasion.
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Specialized in Rust, Devops, Databases, previously Ruby on Rails and a bit Javascript/React.
  Résumé/CV: on request via email
  Email: [email protected]
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dax-huiberts/
  GitHub: https://github.com/daxhuiberts
Hi, I'm Dax.

I have over 15 years of experience in Software Architecture, (Lead) Software Development and DevOps roles. My strengths lie in creating stable, scalable and performant systems with a deep knowledge of overall architecture. I am meticulous in my work and have a high regard for correctness. I have a knack for refactoring and improving existing systems while minimizing breaking changes.

I have worked with many different languages, a lot with Ruby (on Rails), but also with Elixir, Go, Rust, C, Bash and I have my fair share of client side JavaScript/TypeScript and React experience. I love working with PostgreSQL and optimizing both queries and overall server performance. I've also done quite a lot of DevOps, from setting up more traditional stacks with ansible to containerization on AWS Fargate and Kubernetes, using Terraform for infrastructure as code.

I've been working with Rust since before its 1.0 release. I have used it for many personal projects and experiments (some of them available on my GitHub). I have applied it professionally on few occasions at previous positions. I consider myself quite capable using the language with roughly 2 years of experience in the language. I'm looking for a great opportunity to work primarily with Rust related to my previous skills or more towards system programming.

daxhuiberts | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

This is amazing!!!

I needed to do this lately and my process was like: Make a window/screen capture with quicktime. Convert the capture to an animated gif with the ffmpeg command line utility. Find an easy image host to save the generate gif somewhere. This was all very cumbersome.

Your process even allows me to screengrab a single browser tab. Thank you so much!!!

daxhuiberts | 7 years ago | on: Goodbye, EdgeHTML

I have the exact same issue. I'm using a fully specced MacBook Pro early 2015 with a Retina screen in a scaled mode (1.5x) and Firefox is extremely slow to use. Scrolling isn't fluid at all and CPU usage is very high. When I put it in the normal Retina mode (2x) it's much better, but still not as fluid as using Chrome, which even on 1.5x mode works and scrolls fluidly.

I'm also using Firefox on an underpowered Ubuntu machine and it works wonderfully there though (no HiDPI screen).

daxhuiberts | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)

Salonized | Front-end Developer | Amsterdam | ONSITE | FULL-TIME

Salonized eliminates the time-consuming and tedious task of scheduling appointments, managing inventory, calling to confirm appointments and sending out reminders. Salonized is designed for all kinds of salons: single person businesses, large businesses with numerous employees and multiple locations, and everything in-between.

We’re a small 10 person team located in the center of Amsterdam. We’re bootstrapped and quickly growing our revenue every month and starting to scale up to meet our demands. Our clients value our support, ease of use and quality very highly, which are also our own biggest priorities. You can see the passion to create a high quality product within each of the team members.

Want to know more? Visit the following pages or send me an email at [email protected].

Front-end developer - https://www.salonized.com/en/jobs/front-end-developer

daxhuiberts | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)

Salonized | Senior Ember.js / Rails developer | Amsterdam | ONSITE / REMOTE | FULL-TIME

Salonized eliminates the time-consuming and tedious task of scheduling appointments, managing inventory, calling to confirm appointments and sending out reminders. Salonized is designed for all kinds of salons: single person businesses, large businesses with numerous employees and multiple locations, and everything in-between.

We’re a small 7 person team located in the Hackers & Founders building on the Herengracht in the heart of Amsterdam. We’re bootstrapped and quickly growing our revenue every month and starting to scale up to bigger clients. Our clients value our support, ease of use and quality very highly, which are also our own biggest priorities. You can see the passion to create a high quality product within each of the team members.

Want to know more? Visit the following pages or send me an email at [email protected].

Ember.js Developer - https://www.salonized.com/en/jobs/senior-emberjs-developer

Rails Developer - https://www.salonized.com/en/jobs/senior-ruby-on-rails-devel...

daxhuiberts | 11 years ago | on: You’ll Always Miss Being in the Basement

I worked in a back room of a storage room of a shop in a basement for a while. The pro is that in summer I didn't get subtracted because I wasn't aware of the nice weather outside ;) I do share very fond memories of that period like what Zach is talking about.

daxhuiberts | 11 years ago | on: How We Use AWS, Ansible, and Packer to Make Deployment Awesome

This setup is very similar to the setup I created at my previous job.

Instead of Ansible, I used a plain old shell script, but still idempotent. I did all the testing locally using vagrant/virtualbox. Application deployment was separated in our setup as well, also retrieving the latest application codebase during boot, but using a tgz stored on s3 with the application all the application dependencies (ruby gems and precompiled assets) already in there.

All in all I am very happy with this setup being able to autoscale in a few minutes.

daxhuiberts | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012)

Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Publitas.com (full-time)

We’re looking for Ruby on Rails developers and mobile web developers to help us create our next generation publishing and distribution system for retail e-commerce worldwide.

Publitas has been in business for 5 years now with a crew of 20 dedicated people helping retailers increase their reach and conversion by creating an amazing shopping experience for customers. We make it incredibly easy to publish and distribute exceptional digital catalogs with integrated mobile, e-commerce and social media features.

Our stack runs completely on AWS and has over seven million visits per month. The new system is being developed on Ruby on Rails 3.2 and the mobile web app is using CoffeeScript, Sass and Zepto.js. Being experienced in either Ruby on Rails or mobile web development is great. Being experienced in both is even better!

Contact me or take a look at http://www.publitas.com/en/company/careers/developer for more information.

daxhuiberts | 17 years ago | on: Duke Nukem Forever gameplay Leaked

That's what I think. 3D Realms always said they were self funding, so saying Take-Two pulled the financial plug sounds a bit too odd. Besides, 3D Realms always had their way of releasing stuff when you least expect it. Let's hope my feeling is right...
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