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davidstoker

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Co-founder and CTO at Knack (https://www.joinknack.com)

Email me david[@]joinknack.com

I don't represent any company in an official capacity here on HN. The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employer.

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davidstoker··on Google's AI previews erode the internet, edtech company says in lawsuit
Alphabet's Google, internet search engine is eroding demand for original content and undermining publishers' ability to compete with its artificial intelligence-generated overviews, a U.S. educational technology company said in a lawsuit filed on Monday.
davidstoker··on Show HN: BudgetFlow – Budget planning using interactive Sankey diagrams
Sounds like you would benefit from Monarch. I use their Sankey features for visualizing expenses (https://www.monarchmoney.com/features/spending)
davidstoker··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022)
Knack | Data and Analytics Engineer (Remote) | Remote (US only) | https://www.joinknack.com

Knack is a fast-growing EdTech focused on building and scaling peer-to-peer tutoring and learning programs for colleges and universities. We partner directly with and operate our platform for colleges across the United States.

We are seeking a full-time, Data Engineer who will work on unlocking data insights for the business, data modeling, transformation (ELT/ETL), building analytics applications, database scaling and more.

We are a fully remote company that offers 401k, medical/dental/vision, remote work stipend and company gatherings.

Job posting: https://knack.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=55

Other positions: https://knack.bamboohr.com/jobs/

Email in profile.

davidstoker··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
Knack | Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer (Remote) | Remote (US only) | https://www.joinknack.com

Knack is a fast-growing EdTech focused on building and scaling peer-to-peer tutoring and learning programs for colleges and universities. We partner directly with and operate our platform for colleges across the United States.

We're looking for an experienced Cloud/DevOps engineer to manage and scale our AWS infrastructure, empower other engineers on the team to more effectively run workloads, meet our security and compliance objectives.

We use AWS, Terraform extensively, Kubernetes, ECS, Github Actions, RDS, S3, Control Tower, Guard Duty, etc.

We are a fully remote company that offers 401k, medical/dental/vision, remote work stipend and company gatherings.

Job posting: https://knack.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=48

Other positions: https://knack.bamboohr.com/jobs/

Email in profile.

davidstoker··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)
Knack | Senior Backend Software Engineer | Remote (US only) | https://www.joinknack.com

Knack is a fast-growing EdTech focused on building and scaling peer-to-peer tutoring and learning programs for colleges and universities. We partner directly with and operate our platform for colleges across the United States.

We're looking for engineers interested in working primarily on our backend systems with experience in Laravel, PHP, GraphQL, MySQL, Redis and ElasticSearch.

Opportunities exist to work beyond the backend as well with the rest of our stack including React/GraphQL/TypeScript, React Native, AWS, Terraform, Python, Airflow and others.

We are a fully remote company that offers 401k, medical/dental/vision, remote work stipend and company gatherings.

https://knack.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=25

Other positions: https://knack.bamboohr.com/jobs/

davidstoker··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)
Knack | Senior Backend Software Engineer | Remote (US only) | https://www.joinknack.com

Knack is a fast-growing EdTech focused on building and scaling peer-to-peer tutoring and learning programs for colleges and universities. We partner directly with and operate our platform for colleges across the United States.

We're looking for engineers interested in working primarily on our backend systems with experience in Laravel, PHP, GraphQL, MySQL, Redis and ElasticSearch.

Opportunities exist to work beyond the backend as well with the rest of our stack including React/GraphQL/TypeScript, React Native, AWS, Terraform, Python, Airflow and others.

We are a fully remote company that offers 401k, medical/dental/vision, remote work stipend and company gatherings.

https://knack.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=25

Other positions: https://knack.bamboohr.com/jobs/

davidstoker··on Ask HN: Has Gmail stopped working for you with uBlock Origin on Chrome?
See this issue for solution: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/11906#issueco...
davidstoker··on Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?
Of note, LastPass just announced that they are splitting out of LogMeIn and becoming independent again: https://blog.lastpass.com/2021/12/lastpass-investing-even-mo...
davidstoker··on Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region
Do you use VPC endpoints for S3? The next sentence explained failures I observed with S3: "However, access to Amazon S3 buckets and DynamoDB tables via VPC Endpoints was impaired during this event."
davidstoker··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
Knack | Senior Backend Software Engineer | Tampa, FL | Remote (US only) | https://www.joinknack.com

Knack is a fast-growing EdTech focused on building and scaling peer-to-peer tutoring and learning programs for colleges and universities. We partner directly with and operate our platform for colleges across the United States.

I'm looking for engineers interested in working primarily on our backend systems with experience in Laravel, PHP, GraphQL, MySQL, Redis and ElasticSearch.

Opportunities exist to work beyond the backend as well with the rest of our stack including React/GraphQL/TypeScript, React Native, AWS, Terraform, Python, Airflow and others.

We are a fully remote company that offers 401k, medical/dental/vision, remote work stipend and company gatherings (post-pandemic).

https://angel.co/company/knack-2/jobs/1348732-senior-backend...

Other positions: https://angel.co/knack-2/jobs

davidstoker··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)
Knack | Senior Backend Software Engineer | Tampa, FL | Remote (US only) | https://www.joinknack.com

Knack is a fast-growing EdTech focused on building and scaling peer-to-peer tutoring and learning programs for colleges and universities. We partner directly with and operate our platform for colleges across the United States.

I'm looking for engineers interested in working primarily on our backend systems with experience in Laravel, PHP, GraphQL, MySQL, Redis and ElasticSearch.

Opportunities exist to work beyond the backend as well with the rest of our stack including React/GraphQL/TypeScript, React Native, AWS, Terraform, Python, Airflow and others.

We are a fully remote company that offers 401k, health/dental/vision, remote work stipend and company gatherings (post-pandemic).

https://angel.co/company/knack-2/jobs/1348732-senior-backend...

Other positions: https://angel.co/knack-2/jobs

davidstoker··on Show HN: RSS Feeds with News from AWS
I've done the same thing for a while on Slack subscribing to this feed to get notified about all new announcements: https://aws.amazon.com/new/feed/

A little noisy at times but it has definitely helped me keep up to date on things.

davidstoker··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)
Knack | Senior Software Engineer | Tampa, FL | ONSITE | https://www.joinknack.com

Knack has a radical mission to completely change the way the education system operates. We allow individuals to further themselves by learning specific skill sets today, that can be applied to the ever-evolving workforce of tomorrow. Today, Knack is a fast growing peer tutoring platform for college students - we focus on student retention, skills development, and workforce readiness. We partner directly with and operate our platform for colleges in the United States. We're a product-driven company backed by preeminent investors, universities, and corporations (Precursor Ventures, Bisk.com, ASU, and many others).

We are looking for talented engineers interested in making an impact across our stack that includes React, React Native, GraphQL, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, AWS, Docker, etc.

Learn more and apply: https://angel.co/knack-2/jobs

davidstoker··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)
Knack | Senior Software Engineer | Tampa, FL | ONSITE | https://www.joinknack.com

Knack has a radical mission to completely change the way the education system operates. We allow individuals to further themselves by learning specific skill sets today, that can be applied to the ever-evolving workforce of tomorrow. Today, Knack is a fast growing peer tutoring platform for college students - we focus on student retention, skills development, and workforce readiness. We partner directly with and operate our platform for colleges in the United States. We're a product-driven company backed by preeminent investors, universities, and corporations (Precursor Ventures, Bisk.com, ASU, and many others).

We are looking for talented engineers interested in making an impact across our stack that includes React, React Native, GraphQL, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, AWS, Docker, etc.

Learn more and apply: https://angel.co/knack-2/jobs

davidstoker··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)
Knack | Senior Software Engineer | Tampa, FL | ONSITE | https://www.joinknack.com

Knack has a radical mission to completely change the way the education system operates. We allow individuals to further themselves by learning specific skill sets today, that can be applied to the ever-evolving workforce of tomorrow. Today, Knack is the fastest growing peer tutoring platform for college students - we focus on student retention, skills development, and workforce readiness. We're a product-driven company backed by preeminent investors, universities, and corporations (Precursor Ventures, Bisk.com, ASU, and many others).

We are looking for talented engineers interested in making an impact across our stack that includes React, React Native, GraphQL, JavaScript, PHP, Python, MySQL, AWS, Docker.

Learn more and apply: https://angel.co/knack-2/jobs

davidstoker··on Colin O’Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica with Final 32-Hour Push
Colin just accomplished an incredible feat of endurance! His daily Instagram postings have been inspirational to read for the past 53 days. Other info about his expedition:

https://www.colinobrady.com/theimpossiblefirst

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/18/sports/antarc...

davidstoker··on Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka in Public Preview
From the pricing page: https://aws.amazon.com/msk/pricing/

"You do not pay for Apache Zookeeper nodes that Amazon MSK provisions for you, or data transfer that occurs between brokers and nodes within clusters."

davidstoker··on AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites
Very cool! Now if only I had a satellite to use it with...

How much demand would there be for this type of offering?

davidstoker··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)
Knack | Senior Software Engineer | Tampa, FL | ONSITE | https://www.joinknack.com

Knack has a radical mission to completely change the way the education system operates. We allow individuals to further themselves by learning specific skill sets today, that can be applied to the ever-evolving workforce of tomorrow. Today, Knack is the fastest growing peer tutoring platform for college students - we focus on student retention, skills development, and workforce readiness. We're a product-driven company backed by preeminent investors, universities, and corporations (Precursor Ventures, Bisk.com, ASU, and many others).

We are looking for talented engineers interested in making an impact across our stack that includes React, React Native, GraphQL, JavaScript, PHP, Python, MySQL, AWS, Docker.

Learn more and apply: https://angel.co/knack-2/jobs

davidstoker··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)
Knack | Senior Software Engineer | Tampa, FL | ONSITE | https://www.joinknack.com

Knack has a radical mission to completely change the way the education system operates. We allow individuals to further themselves by learning specific skill sets today, that can be applied to the ever-evolving workforce of tomorrow. Today, Knack is the fastest growing peer tutoring platform for college students - we focus on student retention, skills development, and workforce readiness. We're a product-driven company backed by preeminent investors, universities, and corporations (Precursor Ventures, Bisk.com, ASU, and many others).

We are looking for talented engineers interested in making an impact across our stack that includes React, React Native, GraphQL, JavaScript, PHP, Python, MySQL, AWS, Docker.

Learn more and apply: https://angel.co/knack-2/jobs

davidstoker··on SurveyMonkey S-1
Revenue !== profit. One would expect revenue to be growing at a steady clip with profit coming later when costs are decreased
davidstoker··on Wordpress.com's move to SSL complete
Wonder what that huge drop-off was in late November?