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Socials: - github.com/jackdbd - linkedin.com/in/giacomodebidda - https://www.giacomodebidda.com/

Interests: Books, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Freelancing, Hardware, Healthcare, Mentorship, Open Source, Outdoor Activities, Remote Work, Startups, Web Development

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jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2024)
SEEKING WORK | Italy (GMT+1) | Remote

Full-stack developer and web performance consultant with 9 years of experience.

Available part-time or full-time, solo or as part of a small team.

I can work with TypeScript, Clojure and Zig. GCP certified (Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Data Engineer).

Email: giacomo@giacomodebidda.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giacomodebidda/

Site/Blog: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/

Free consultation: https://cal.com/giacomodebidda/30min

Note: if you work in the healthcare sector, definitely get in touch. I am a biomedical and clinical engineer by training.

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2024)
SEEKING WORK | Italy (GMT+1) | Remote

Full-stack developer and web performance consultant with 9 years of experience.

Available part-time or full-time, solo or as part of a small team.

I can work with TypeScript, Clojure and Zig. GCP certified (Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Data Engineer).

Email: giacomo@giacomodebidda.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giacomodebidda/

Site/Blog: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/

Free consultation: https://cal.com/giacomodebidda/30min

Note: if you work in the healthcare sector, definitely get in touch. I am a biomedical and clinical engineer by training.

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2024)
SEEKING WORK | Italy (GMT+1) | Remote

Full-stack developer and web performance consultant with 9 years of experience.

Available part-time or full-time, solo or as part of a small team.

I can work with TypeScript, Clojure and Zig. GCP certified (Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Data Engineer).

Email: giacomo@giacomodebidda.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giacomodebidda/

Site/Blog: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/

Free consultation: https://cal.com/giacomodebidda/30min

Note: if you work in the healthcare sector, definitely get in touch. I am a biomedical and clinical engineer by training.

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Italy (GMT+1) | Remote

Full-stack developer and web performance consultant with 9 years of experience.

Available part-time or full-time, solo or as part of a small team.

I can work with TypeScript, Clojure and Zig. I use GCP (certified), Cloudflare, Vercel for most of my projects.

Email: giacomo@giacomodebidda.com

Site/Blog: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/

Free consultation: https://cal.com/giacomodebidda/30min

Note: if you work in the healthcare sector, definitely get in touch. I am a biomedical and clinical engineer by training.

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Italy (GMT+1) | Remote

Full-stack developer and web performance consultant with 9 years of experience.

Available part-time or full-time, solo or as part of a small team.

I can work with TypeScript, Clojure and Zig. I use GCP (certified), Cloudflare, Vercel for most of my projects.

Email: giacomo@giacomodebidda.com

Site/Blog: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/

Free consultation: https://cal.com/giacomodebidda/30min

Note: if you work in the healthcare sector, definitely get in touch. I am a biomedical and clinical engineer by training.

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Italy (GMT+1) | Remote

Full-stack developer and web performance consultant with 9 years of experience.

Available part-time or full-time, solo or as part of a small team.

I can work with TypeScript, Clojure and Zig. I use GCP (certified), Cloudflare, Vercel for most of my projects.

Email: giacomo@giacomodebidda.com

Site/Blog: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/

Free consultation: https://cal.com/giacomodebidda/30min

Note: if you work in the healthcare sector, definitely get in touch. I am a biomedical and clinical engineer by training.

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Italy (GMT+1) | Remote

Full-stack developer and web performance consultant with 9 years of experience.

Available part-time or full-time, solo or as part of a small team.

I can work with TypeScript, Clojure and Zig. I use GCP (certified), Cloudflare, Vercel for most of my projects.

Email: giacomo@giacomodebidda.com

Site/Blog: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/

Free consultation: https://cal.com/giacomodebidda/30min

Note: if you work in the healthcare sector, definitely get in touch. I am a biomedical and clinical engineer by training.

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Italy (GMT+1) | Remote

Full-stack developer and web performance consultant with 9 years of experience.

Available part-time or full-time, solo or as part of a small team.

I can work with TypeScript, Clojure and Zig. I use GCP (certified), Cloudflare, Vercel for most of my projects.

Email: giacomo@giacomodebidda.com

Site/Blog: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/

Free consultation: https://cal.com/giacomodebidda/30min

Note: if you work in the healthcare sector, definitely get in touch. I am a biomedical and clinical engineer by training.

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Italy (GMT+1) | Remote

Full-stack developer with 8 years of experience.

Available part-time or full-time, solo or as part of a small team.

I can work with Node.js, Clojure and Zig. I use GCP (certified) and Cloudflare for most of my projects.

Email: giacomo@giacomodebidda.com

Site/Blog: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/

Free consultation: https://cal.com/giacomodebidda/30min

Note: if you work in the healthcare sector, definitely get in touch. I am a biomedical and clinical engineer by training.

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Italy (GMT+1) | Remote

Full-stack developer with 8 years of experience.

Available part-time or full-time, solo or as part of a small team.

I can work with Node.js, Clojure and Zig. I use GCP (certified) and Cloudflare for most of my projects.

Email: giacomo@giacomodebidda.com

Site/Blog: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/

Free consultation: https://cal.com/giacomodebidda/30min

Note: if you work in the healthcare sector, definitely get in touch. I am a biomedical and clinical engineer by training.

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Italy (GMT+1) | Remote

Full-stack developer with 8 years of experience.

Available part-time or full-time, solo or as part of a small team.

I can work with Node.js, Clojure and Zig. I use GCP (certified) and Cloudflare for most of my projects.

Email: giacomo@giacomodebidda.com

Site/Blog: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/

Free consultation: https://cal.com/giacomodebidda/30min

Note: if you work in the healthcare sector, definitely get in touch. I am a biomedical and clinical engineer by training.

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Italy (GMT+1) | Remote

Full-stack developer with 8 years of experience.

Available part-time or full-time, solo or as part of a small team.

I can work with Node.js, Clojure and Zig. I use GCP (certified) and Cloudflare for most of my projects.

Email: giacomo@giacomodebidda.com

Site/Blog: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/

Free consultation: https://cal.com/giacomodebidda/30min

Note: if you work in the healthcare sector, definitely get in touch. I am a biomedical and clinical engineer by training.

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2022)
SEEKING WORK | Italy | Remote

Full-stack developer with 8 years of experience.

Available part-time or full-time, solo or as part of a small team.

I can work with Node.js, Clojure and Zig.

Email: giacomo@giacomodebidda.com

Site/Blog: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/

Free consultation: https://cal.com/giacomodebidda/30min

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2022)
SEEKING WORK | Italy (UTC+2) | Remote

Hi! I'm Giacomo, a full-stack developer and cloud consultant from Italy.

Professional experience: 8 years

Tech stack: 11ty, React | Node.js, Clojure, Zig | GCP, Cloudflare

I am a biomedical/clinical engineer by training, so I would be really interested in working with healthcare / life sciences startups.

GitHub: https://github.com/jackdbd/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giacomodebidda/

Contact: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/contact/

Free 30 minute chat: https://calendly.com/giacomo-debidda/free-consultation

Please mention this thread when contacting me.

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Is Clojure Dead?
Could you expand a bit on data visualization and medical research? Did you develop libraries in these fields? Thanks!
jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2022)
SEEKING WORK | Location: Italy | Remote Only

Hi! I'm Giacomo, a full-stack developer from Italy. I can work with: Node.js, Clojure, Zig, WebAssembly.

Frontend: JS/TS (11ty, React, Svelte) or CLJS (Reagent, re-frame, Fulcro)

Backend: JS/TS if you target Node.js, Clojure if you target the JVM

Cloud: GCP (I am a certified Google Associate Cloud Engineer), Cloudflare

GitHub: https://github.com/jackdbd/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giacomodebidda/

Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/3036129/jackdbd

Website: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/ (includes my resume)

Email: giacomo[at]giacomodebidda.com

Free 30m consultation: https://calendly.com/giacomo-debidda/free-consultation

Rate: €400/day. Open to flat-rate pricing for well-scoped projects.

Please mention this thread when contacting me.

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2022)
SEEKING WORK | Italy | Remote

I am a freelance full-stack developer from Italy.

Skills:

- frontend: JS/TS (11ty, React, Flareact, Svelte) or ClojureScript (Reagent, re-frame)

- backend: JS/TS if you target Node.js, Clojure if you target the JVM

- cloud: I am a certified Google Associate Cloud Engineer

Technologies I can work with: Node.js, Clojure, Python, Zig, WebAssembly.

Contacts:

- GitHub: https://github.com/jackdbd/

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giacomodebidda/

- Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/3036129/jackdbd

- Website: https://www.giacomodebidda.com/ (includes my resume)

- Email: giacomo[at]giacomodebidda.com

Rate: €400/day. Open to flat-rate pricing for well-scoped projects.

Please mention this thread when writing me.

Note: if you work in the healthcare sector, definitely get in touch. I am a biomedical and clinical engineer by training.

jackdbd··on Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’
sure, let's spend time solving Leetcode problems instead of understanding how HTTP works.
jackdbd··on Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’
This is great. If I had my own company I would do basically the same:

1. have a look at the candidate's github / stack overflow profile. If you like what you see, invite him/her for an interview; 2. have a couple of pair programming sessions as you described, with different team members (and don't let team members influence each other during the hiring decision); 3. invite the candidate for lunch and see how he/she treats others (basically an asshole test)

jackdbd··on Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
Thanks for the links. I'm a great fan of video walks too. They are very relaxing and IMHO they provide a much better overview of a place than the typical travel vlog.

Here is another Japan-focused channel. There are walks either with or without audio commenting. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGfM15CKSjHl8bGp16P6P8g/fea...

jackdbd··on Ask HN: Are books worth it?
> So yes, for non-fiction books are not worth it. Once someone learns to be skeptical (which, by the way, the old "books are sanctuaries" approach will not teach) then Internet is the way to go.

I agree. I have been reading/listening to 60+ books a year (~60% books, 40% audiobooks on Audible) for the past 3 years, and I rarely find a tech book more valuable that a collection of blog posts of authors that I already know and trust. I actually find that a good blog post with many insightful comments has much more depth of a book. A nice exception would be one of these short books by O'Reilly (https://gist.github.com/augbog/d65f6600188fece854cb341734c5f...). I always reach for them when I want a quick overview of a technology I'm not familiar with.

Many other non-fiction books - e.g. almost all self-help books - are also not worth reading, and you could summarize them in a few pages.

A few tips:

- try Audible if you don't find the time to sit and read a book. I always listen to an audiobook when I go for a walk or do some light exercise.

- read book summaries with something like Blinkist (https://www.blinkist.com) before deciding to read a book.

- don't feel guilty leaving a book unfinished. If it sucks, or if it starts repeating itself, stop reading it.

- in the case of a non-fiction book, always take notes.