44 karma · joined March 24, 2015
hi [at] aaronmiler.com
Universe really doesn't want my team doing any work this week.
Carats & Cake delivers the operating system for events, transforming the $100 billion annual events industry through a full suite of purpose-built marketing and sales tools as well as customer conversion solutions (contracting, invoicing, and payments).
We are looking for someone who is excited about being part of a small team with other experienced engineers and playing a key role in executing against our product roadmap.
Our stack is Ruby on Rails, Postgres, React w/ Typescript, and we use Sidekiq for background processing.
We recently raised our Series A! More info here: https://caratsandcake.com/articles/carats-and-cake-announces...
Apply on Lever here - https://jobs.lever.co/CaratsandCake/263988bf-a2d2-4da5-a674-...
If you have any questions about the role, feel free to reach out to me, aaron at [COMPANY_DOMAIN]
Carats & Cake delivers the operating system for events, transforming the $100 billion annual events industry through a full suite of purpose-built marketing and sales tools as well as customer conversion solutions (contracting, invoicing, and payments).
We are looking for someone who is excited about being part of a small team with other experienced engineers and playing a key role in executing against our product roadmap.
Our stack is Ruby on Rails, Postgres, React w/ Typescript, and we use Sidekiq for background processing.
We recently raised our Series A! More info here: https://caratsandcake.com/articles/carats-and-cake-announces...
Apply on Lever here - https://jobs.lever.co/CaratsandCake/263988bf-a2d2-4da5-a674-...
If you have any questions about the role, feel free to reach out to me, aaron at [COMPANY_DOMAIN]
Thanks for the hard work you've poured into them Mike!
Remote: Yes
Relocation: No
Technologies: Ruby (on Rails), React, Rspec, Sidekiq, CI/CD, AWS, Javascript, Coffeescript
Resume/CV: Happy to provide it over email
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronmiler/
Email: [REDACTED]
Full Stack Engineer with over 7+ years experience, with 6 of them being remote. I've spent the past 5 years in Ed-Tech, and am looking for my next opportunity.
We use a piece of home brewing equipment right now to fill our cans and bottles, the beer gun [1]. The beer gun allows us to purge our cans/bottles with CO2 (oxygen is bad for alcohol), and then fill them from the bottom to reduce foam.
I was able to find a local supplier, that wraps cans in plastic. So rather than printing them, they shrink wrap our label on to them. They're a bit more expensive than printed cans (if I recall 34¢ sleeved vs 19¢ printed). This allows us to order a single pallet at a time, decreasing our storage needs
The last key was the can seamer[2]. I found this early on, and it's been a great little work horse for us. We've put over 6,000 cans through it, and it's been one of the best purchases we've made.
Bottles are the easy one, we just use the beer gun [1] and then a manual capper to seal them.
Happy to answer any other questions! It's been a fun ride trying to figure out how to "mass produce" something on a smaller scale :)
[1] https://www.morebeer.com/products/blichmann-beergun-v2.html [2] https://oktoberdesign.com/shop/canseamers/mk16/
It's been very satisfying making and selling a physical product.
The profitability part isn't quite there yet. But we're working on that.
We (the beverage industry/my company) are only in practice responsible for deposits. While we are required to take collections, no consumers really returns them to us. The return burden often falls on the retailers, who collect deposit directly from consumers.
When we sell product to a retail store. We collect a 10¢ deposit per can from them. The retailer then collects a 10¢ deposit from the customer.
My company gives all our collected deposits to a co-op (which is state run I believe) who handle the collection/recycling of the containers.
I interact with our bottle bill on a pretty small scale, but I believe that only changes my reporting frequency.
Netflix servers responding and streaming fine, but almost everything else is slow
It looks like Google removed (at least one of) their access tokens
Checked the URL containing:
googledocs.g-docs.win%2Fg.phpOn initial inspection the URL looks harmless, but it's got some malicious params in there, mainly
redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fgoogledocs.g-docs.win%2Fg.php
It appears to request read/send access to your email, and then spam all your contactsI'm working on turning my garage into a fully licensed winery so I can start producing hard cider commercially.
So in a perfect world, my time would be split 70/30 where 70% of my is spent making/distributing/marketing hard cider. Then 30% of my time is spent on lifestyle software businesses/applications
Note: I'm talking about hooking into gitlab.com not a self hosted instance
> It is publicly documented in order to illustrate our design philosophy and process.