chunkstuntman

SEEKING WORK

Location: NYC | Remote

I've been a software generalist at a variety of startups, some in their earliest stages helping to craft their ideas into MVPs (PeerMedical, ClimaCell, Odyn) and some in their midpoints helping to refactor and upgrade legacy technology while planning and building new business-focused features (Viewpoint Government Solutions, Netra, AptDeco).

I'm comfortable in most corners of the rapidly expanding modern web development stack, but my hope is to also be a critical and collaborative partner in the business/societal thought processes required to successfully execute a vision.

During the pandemic I've been investing in myself and the ideas of my peers and am now producing a justice-oriented podcast, providing musical support to weekly pan-spiritual meetups, and growing a portfolio of film photography.

I'm less interested in high pay (though I need at least a pittance to survive) and more interested in worthy ideas that I can support and take to the next level.

Technologies and years of experience:

- JS (React/Angular) 6+

- Ruby (Rails) 3+

- DB (Mongo, Postgres, etc.) 6+

- Elixir (Phoenix) 1+

- Haskell 3+

- Cloud (AWS, DO, GCP) 5+

- Containers and other devops (Docker, Kubernetes) 3+

Angel: https://angel.co/u/stefan-cepko

Email: stefan@cepko.me

Photography: guccisilica.com

Humans have an incredible way of elevating their universal importance to hold the conviction that an alien species capable of receiving such a message and actionably responding would have any desire to do so, let alone that the loss of one observatory would leave the species thinking that they were being ghosted and that humans are assholes. We're really nothing more than flatlanders at this point and we need to work on our humility toward the situation.

Actually yeah, parasitic selfishness should definitely be discouraged in a healthy society

Factoring in that the prison population is a "good chunk" of the total population should elevate the scale of this discussion above statistical haggling

This is a world where giving money to a company is an inherently political act, even if you do not know it to be. Each dollar spent at Amazon is a tacit endorsement of its business, labor, and greater economic practices, and for one to detail why they choose to stop supporting a business is to enumerate the practices and side-effects of that business's existence that they find problematic or harmful.

This is meant to spark discussion of the thought process behind consciously decoupling from a specific product, not to look for kudos or get patted on the back.

Every time I see this blog I'm extremely interested in the content, but the stylized presentation is so jarring and tough to read. I doubt this is an original qualm and I'm fully able to switch to reading mode in Firefox to mitigate this problem, but frankly it's off-putting.

The US government routinely monitors purchase and search histories to prevent the active ingredients of something destructive like that from falling into nefarious hands, and you're posing a wholly disingenuous argument

Life certainly has a good chance given the existence of deep-sea bacteria, tardigrades, and cockroaches, but the human species has a relatively narrow set of conditions that must be met for any sort of longterm survival.

When they opened a brick and morter store in Boston, I remember walking in with a real sense of excitement but walking out without any interest in becoming more involved in the 3D printing scene.

If anything, seeing the printers in action made me realize just how inessential their product seemed from a layperson's point of view.

For all of the potential 3D printing has, at the moment it is a solution looking for a consumer problem, and most consumers aren't looking to make custom figurines or embossed text.

A few months ago, I walked by the storefront and it was totally empty. Apparently I wasn't the only one disillusioned by seeing their product up close.

Perhaps this teacher was looking more for thoughtful analysis and insight rather than pedantically seeking out minor grammatical errors.

One company I worked for relied heavily on code reviews after every feature. At least two co-workers (one of whom had to be a supervisor) read, ran, and gave feedback on every piece of code. Reading others' code and providing feedback allowed me to improve my sight-linting ability, and it felt like each day my group's code as a whole was improving.

Having some accountability for writing sloppy code is very sobering.

I really love Zeal, but I wish the documentation files weren't being hosted from Dash's servers. If Zeal were available on OSX I'd use it in an instant.

Fabian Sanglard's exploration[1] of Doom3 is much more in depth than this article, though the author does quote Sanglard's analysis albeit with a small source link

[1] http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3_bfg/index.php

I enjoyed using xfce as a nice desktop environment around a tiling window manager (bspwm), I'm sure i3 would plug in similarly.

In my experience, the only people who send text messages this way are the parents of children who have a cell phone. Text abbreviations were used at a time when typing on a phone was difficult, but now that we can use our thumbs to type (or swipe) fully expanded words on a virtual qwerty keyboard, most people have abandoned the kind of spelling you're displaying.

http://coppertino.com/ http://banshee.fm/ http://ncmpcpp.rybczak.net/ https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40721/winamp

This is certainly frustrating. I can't believe how close the author got to providing some positive reinforcement before missing the point entirely.

Well if (I assume) you're coming from the mindset of how US prisons treat their inmates, expecting prisoners to be treated with any kind of humanity at all would certainly seem rediculous.

> Death of Fun

When your fun is directly at the expense of people who don't share your gender, skin color, class, or orientation, maybe it should die.

> this was speech on the internet. No one was physically harmed by my tweets. Relief was never more than a Block button away.

When you are a public figure of any kind, your personal values will either be exposed as soon as you are given a microphone or they will be unearthed later. The fact that he crafted these unfunny and tasteless jokes and is now pulling the "free speech" card while blaming others for not blocking his account sooner.

Painkiller is based along similar lines but retains Doom's darker demonic palette whereas Serious Sam is very light-hearted and colorful. A number of people have mentioned that it is essentially what Doom 3 would have been if ID hadn't changed the series' genre to horror rather than staying an action shooter.

I think any version control software needs to address the simple fact that humans will rush through writing and committing code in a way that they may later regret. Dealing with an ugly git log is less trouble than not having versioning software at all.

Are there any applications or libraries that you would say follow these practices really well?

Seeing basic examples was really helpful, but a more expansive project that employs these elements would make for good reading.

I like the general idea, but when I switch from one radio to the next, the audio seems to continue playing so I hear multiple stations at once.

Well, the general upside to googling for an answer is that often when someone is providing you with the numeric solution they are also describing their algorithm and implementation. Having it in plain text right on the local hard drive might be more tempting with fewer benefits.

Potential Solution: store the solutions file in an obfuscated format that is easy to decrypt

Having a --cheat option seems like a poor decision. Having easy access to every solution (especially as it exists in a plain text file) harms the experience of struggling through a problem until the correct answer is reached.

The stream of hint boxes that need to be closed before the page actually loads is very distracting and probably unnecessary to most users

Reddit is wonderful for fostering fringe communities and inspiring others to become a part of a subculture, whatever it might be. If you're comparing it to fb, tw, or ig, you've already missed the point of its existence.

This library was intuitive enough to learn in a few hours and allowed me to make a fun toy project in half a day. Highly endorsed.

Its enhancements are amplified by the context in which it's used. If you are a frequent user and tend to use it when trying to relax, that will be the mode your body associates THC intake with.

Small bug: when clicking on an "Ask HN" or any HN link that just drops to the comments section, an error page [0] appears.

[0] http://usepanda.com/app/item?id=7743604