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We do this by ensuring privacy of those looking for support and strive to serve them with dignity and ease. We are growing to ensure we can reach people where they are and empower those already serving them (particularly care navigators, social workers, and individuals directly) with the most accurate and robust catalog of free and reduced cost programs to connect with and follow-up easily.

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So we can use them in the car to charge when there is excess renewables, and then use the second-life batteries in large stationary storage installations to do the same. Tying into the different grid systems is a bit of a nightmare with everyone having their own standards unfortunately, otherwise it would be easier to roll these out more often.

(I am speaking for myself, not Mobility House).

I am the tech team lead at Mobility House (the company behind taking the batteries and doing the real time control in that setup) for that particular project. https://www.mobilityhouse.com/int_en/magazine/press-releases...

It's actually a really cool setup that allows us to take in excess solar (that isn't used onsite) to charge the batteries, the batteries actually act as backup power for the event days (that AFC Ajax plays). When not needed they provide frequency containment (grid stabilization to prevent brownouts+blackouts) for the European electrical grid at large (on days where it is financially viable to do so).

If you have any questions I would be more than happy to discuss more :)

The Mobility House is driving the electrification of vehicle fleets with smart-charging technology that reduces operational costs, and monetizes EV batteries in energy markets.

We build the products that charge electric vehicles smarter and cheaper (by reducing peak loads at depots), and also stabilize the grid (~30MW of power from second-life batteries in warehouses).

Most of the company is based in Munich, Germany... but our Austin backend dev team, which focuses on building up our asset backed energy trading platform, is expanding and looking for all levels of Software Engineers/Developers (Senior, Mid, and Junior).

Our stack is Python/Node.js + RabbitMQ + Postgres based with a lot of near real-time data processing both in AWS and IoT (on-customer-prem).

More complete job descriptions are available at https://www.mobilityhouse.com/usa_en/career

greg.lutostanski (at) mobilityhouse.com to apply or for more info

The Mobility House is driving the electrification of vehicle fleets with smart-charging technology that reduces operational costs, and monetizes EV batteries in energy markets.

We build the products that charge electric vehicles smarter and cheaper (by reducing peak loads at depots), and also stabilize the grid (~30MW of power from second-life batteries in warehouses).

Most of the company is based in Munich, Germany... but our Austin backend dev team, which focuses on building up our asset backed energy trading platform, is expanding and looking for all levels of Software Engineers/Developers (Senior, Mid, and Junior).

Our stack is Python/Node.js + RabbitMQ + Postgres based with a lot of near real-time data processing both in AWS and IoT (on-customer-prem).

More complete job descriptions are available at https://www.mobilityhouse.com/usa_en/career

greg.lutostanski (at) mobilityhouse.com to apply or for more info

Should mention that __init__.py is not needed for python 3.3+ anymore (just found that out this week myself to my surprise) so for projects where backwards compatibility is not required you can stop creating extra blank files if you don't need them.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37139786/is-init-py-not-...

The Mobility House is driving the electrification of vehicle fleets with smart-charging technology that reduces operational costs, and monetizes EV batteries in energy markets.

We build the products that charge electric vehicles smarter and cheaper (by reducing peak loads at depots), and also stabilize the grid (25MW of power from second-life batteries in warehouses).

Most of the company is based in Munich, Germany... but our Austin backend dev team, which focuses on building up our asset backed energy trading platform, is expanding and looking for all levels of Software Engineers/Developers (Senior, Mid, and Junior).

Our stack is Python/Node.js + RabbitMQ + Postgres based with a lot of near real-time data processing both in AWS and IoT (on-customer-prem).

More complete job descriptions are available at https://www.mobilityhouse.com/usa_en/career

greg.lutostanski (at) mobilityhouse.com to apply or for more info

The Mobility House is driving the electrification of vehicle fleets with smart-charging technology that reduces operational costs, and monetizes EV batteries in energy markets. We build the products that charge electric vehicles smarter and cheaper (by reducing peak loads at depots), and also stabilize the grid (25MW of power from second-life batteries in warehouses).

Most of the company is based in Munich, Germany... but our Austin backend dev team, which focuses on building up our asset backed energy trading platform, is expanding and looking for all levels of Software Engineers/Developers (Senior, Mid, and Junior).

Our stack is Python/Node.js + RabbitMQ + Postgres based with a lot of real-time data processing both in AWS and IoT (on-customer-prem).

More complete job descriptions are available at https://www.mobilityhouse.com/usa_en/career

greg.lutostanski (at) mobilityhouse.com to apply or for more info

The Mobility House is driving the electrification of vehicle fleets with smart-charging technology that reduces operational costs, and monetizes EV batteries in energy markets.

We build the products that charge electric vehicles smarter and cheaper (by reducing peak loads at depots), and also stabilize the grid (25MW of power from second-life batteries in warehouses).

Most of the company is based in Munich, Germany... but our Austin backend dev team is expanding and looking for all levels of Software Engineers/Developers (Senior, Mid, and Junior).

Our stack is Python/Node.js + RabbitMQ + Postgres based with a lot of real-time data processing both in AWS and IoT (on-customer-prem).

The business team in Sunnyvale is also looking for some new faces to help with our sales/rollout.

Some other roles we are hiring for: Technical Product Owner (Austin, TX) Manager, Business Development and Strategic Partnerships (Sunnyvale, CA) Energy and Electric Vehicle Market Analyst (Sunnyvale, CA) Marketing and Communications Manager (Sunnyvale, CA)

More complete job descriptions should be available at https://www.mobilityhouse.com/usa_en/career shortly.

greg.lutostanski (at) mobilityhouse.com to apply or for more info

For pinning specific devices or incremental (canary) deployments we built a tool using their api that might be helpful for your case [1] although now I suppose a rename is in order :)

[1] https://github.com/mobilityhouse/resin-release-tool

It saves what you write in textareas so it doesn't get lost when something goes awry.

When the old-style Firefox extensions were going to be deprecated, I went through my installed ones, picked one that wasn't built yet and started from scratch.

The most interesting/difficult part was getting CI setup for both Firefox and Chrome with the always changing landscape of support for extensions in selenium.

Or another option with more tooling like would be something like yadm [2].

[1]: https://github.com/lutostag/dotfiles [2]: https://thelocehiliosan.github.io/yadm/