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wprl | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024)

  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]

I am an experienced backend engineer with expertise in internal tooling and CI/CD. Preference for open source or nonprofits. Willing to travel but not to relocate.

wprl | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2024)

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

I am passionate about delivering scalable, efficient, well tested software with an eye toward painless DX and automated CI/CD. A life long learner and self starter, I approach new challenges with humility and am always eager to learn new skills, share my knowledge, and collaborate with others. 19 years professional software development ⋄ 33 years personal passion for building software

wprl | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)

  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

I am passionate about delivering scalable, efficient, well tested software with an eye toward painless DX and automated CI/CD. A life long learner and self starter, I approach new challenges with humility and am always eager to learn new skills, share my knowledge, and collaborate with others. 19 years professional software development ⋄ 33 years personal passion for building software

wprl | 2 years ago | on: Fedora considers “privacy-preserving” telemetry

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.

wprl | 2 years ago | on: A guidance language for controlling LLMs

The hubris of mutating spiritual texts as a marketing gimmick is contemptible.

wprl | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023)

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]

wprl | 3 years ago | on: Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

Maybe “generic and meaningless” is a better descriptor.

wprl | 3 years ago | on: GPT Spiritual Avisor

This is gross.

wprl | 3 years ago | on: Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has students correct them

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.

wprl | 3 years ago | on: Unpacking the Benefits of Zero Trust Architecture as Defined by NIST

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.

wprl | 3 years ago | on: Food coloring, anti-caking nanoparticles may affect human gut

Who would have thought? Eating sand is bad for you…

wprl | 3 years ago | on: Go claims telemetry objectors arguing in bad faith and violating Code of Conduct

I had been about to devote some time to learning Go, but definitely won’t be after these latest developments.

wprl | 3 years ago | on: Is this poison ivy?

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

wprl | 3 years ago | on: Is this poison ivy?

"Hairy rope, don't be a dope"

wprl | 3 years ago | on: Berkeley Mono Ligatures Release

You can add the Fira ligatures to any font with Ligaturizer. Personally I use it with CMU Typewriter.

[1]: https://github.com/ToxicFrog/Ligaturizer

wprl | 3 years ago | on: ChatGPT and the Enshittening of Knowledge

> 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!

wprl | 3 years ago | on: What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?

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.

wprl | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the weirdest or most surreal recent technology you have seen?

I suppose this is nit picking, however that is not in the style of a Psalm.

wprl | 3 years ago | on: Gptcommit: Never write a commit message again (with the help of GPT-3)

Hey, at least they referenced the (hopefully appropriate) JIRA ticket!

wprl | 3 years ago | on: Generative AI and The Future of Work

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.