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jameswatling··on Ask HN: How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health?
Kiln just opened in St George, I have a dedicated desk, but they have non dedicated desks for I think $150 or so, and has more amenities (and free snacks/coffee to save a little on food costs)
jameswatling··on Ask HN: How do I escape homelessness after rebuilding my mental health?
Hey, so I live in St George.... crazy small world - my email is on my profile.

I work at the new Kiln co working space (they also have hotdesks), send me an email and let's connect

jameswatling··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)
Wonderschool | Engineering Manager, Full Stack Engineers, Backend Engineers (Typescript/Elixir) | SF Bay Area| https://www.wonderschool.com

Wonderschool is dedicated to supporting early childhood educators and center owners with software solutions that simplify operations, enhance family connections, and optimize the learning experience for young children. Our platform empowers providers to focus on education while seamlessly managing their day-to-day administrative tasks.

Open roles:

Engineering Manager [Bay Area Required]: Lead diverse engineering teams, oversee technical execution, and foster innovation within a collaborative and mission-driven environment. Full Stack Engineers: Build and improve scalable solutions across the full stack, contributing to meaningful enhancements in our product suite. Backend Engineers (Typescript/Elixir): Work on a variety of projects, using modern backend technologies to develop and maintain robust systems that support our core platform capabilities. Tech stack: Elixir, Ruby on Rails, Typescript, React Native, GraphQL, Phoenix LiveView, GCP, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Tailwind CSS.

Why Wonderschool? Competitive compensation packages, flexible working conditions, a mission-focused culture, and a dedicated team making an impact in the early education sector. We provide a supportive environment where professional growth is encouraged and achievements are celebrated.

Join Wonderschool and contribute to reshaping how early childhood education is managed and delivered.

Apply at: https://www.wonderschool.com/careers or email your resume to james.watling@wonderschool.com.

jameswatling··on Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code
That was a fun experience, quick maths to get the code
jameswatling··on Google OAuth Login Down?
Seems like things are "working", just super slow and timeouts, so maybe they're above some threshold for making a SLA reportable outage
jameswatling··on Google OAuth Login Down?
This is the same issue we're having
jameswatling··on Tell HN: Meta Quest is unusable without Meta server running
Phew, good thing I wasn't driving at the same time! /s
jameswatling··on Google OAuth Login Down?
My outlandish theory is foreign election interference. Not a tin foil hat guy, but being Super Tuesday the thought crossed my mind
jameswatling··on Google OAuth Login Down?
More logical than my tin foil hat of today being Super Tuesday and an ideal time for a foreign adversary to instil election integrity fears in the US
jameswatling··on Meta outage
We just started having issues with google oauth too....
jameswatling··on [dead]
This post seems like a poor attempt at "organic" interest in the topic
jameswatling··on Ask HN: What steps would you take to go from a $130k/yr SWE position to $210k/yr
Can you provide more context? Remote? If not which desired location? Background and skills? Do you want to be an IC or go more on the manager track?

Generic answer: change jobs, go above and beyond in interviews, network, work on public facing projects, respond to those pesky linkedin recruiters and see where it takes you

jameswatling··on You can hire a Guinness World Records consultant to help set or break a record
https://archive.is/wOXvk
jameswatling··on [dead]
Working from West Coast, US
jameswatling··on The official Rails job board is live
Any plans to add a "looking for a job" feature. ie I am a rails developer and want to host my equivalent profile on the site?
jameswatling··on GitHub is investigating an incident with Pull Requests, Issues and Webhooks
It took them a while to flag also. My team ran into issues at least 80 minutes before this was posted
jameswatling··on Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?
This is awesome, and am so tempted to try.... one question, how long did it take to physically complete this! Also I know you had to "repair" the string a few times, but is this a 2mi single thread?
jameswatling··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)
EarlyDay | 100% Remote (North/South America) | Full Time The only dedicated career marketplace for early childhood educators. We bring employers and jobseekers together to make the hiring and job search process faster and easier. We are a fully remote first early stage startup. Currently 3 engineers and looking to grow and expand our engineering team! We are fully remote, excellent work life balance, fun, friendly team looking.

Come join a product that has is solving a real problem in the world, and help increase the quality and availability of Early Childhood education in the USA.

We are actively looking to hire now, and fill the following roles in the next few months:

- Senior Full Stack (Ruby on Rails 7, Postgres, JSONAPI, React) - Senior Backend Engineer (React, Ruby on Rails, AWS (ECS, RDS, Amplify)

https://www.earlyday.com/career/senior-full-stack-developer james[at]earlyday.com

jameswatling··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
EarlyDay | 100% Remote (North/South America/Australia/NZ time zones) | Full Time The only dedicated career marketplace for early childhood educators. We bring employers and jobseekers together to make the hiring and job search process faster and easier.

We are a fully remote first early stage startup. Currently 2 engineers and looking to grow and expand our engineering team! We are fully remote, can work with any region in the world (ideally a few working hour crossover). Excellent work life balance, fun, friendly team looking.

Come join a product that has is solving a real problem in the world, and help increase the quality and availability of Early Childhood education in the USA.

We are actively looking to hire now, and fill the following roles in the next few months:

- Senior Full Stack (Ruby on Rails 7, Postgres, JSONAPI, React) - Senior Backend Engineer (React, Ruby on Rails, AWS (ECS, RDS, Amplify)

Linkedin Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3190183417

jameswatling··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)
EarlyDay | 100% Remote (North/South America/Australia/NZ time zones) | Full Time

The only dedicated career marketplace for early childhood educators. We bring employers and jobseekers together to make the hiring and job search process faster and easier.

We are a fully remote first early stage startup. Currently 2 engineers and looking to grow and expand our engineering team! We are fully remote, can work with any region in the world (ideally a few working hour crossover). Excellent work life balance, fun, friendly team looking.

Come join a product that has is solving a real problem in the world, and help increase the quality and availability of Early Childhood education in the USA.

We are actively looking to hire now, and fill the following roles in the next few months:

- Senior Full Stack (React, Ruby on Rails, JSONAPI) - Senior Frontend Engineer (React/Next.js, redux, tailwindcss) - Senior Backend Engineer (React, Ruby on Rails, AWS (ECS, RDS, Amplify) - UI/UX designer (experience with HTML/CSS a bonus)

email me: james@earlyday.com

jameswatling··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)
Hiring Front-End React/Next.js Developers (100% Remote, Worldwide)

We are a hiring platform for early childhood educators currently live in NYC.

We are looking to grow our engineering team and new a Intermediate->Senior React Developer.

We are budget constrained and the salary is more suitable to candidates in South East Asia/South Asia/Eastern Europe.

DM me if you are remotely interested

jameswatling··on Facebook Down, including status page
That thought crossed my mind also!
jameswatling··on EmailForJustice.Today
Small tool to enable non tech savvy users to email some templates, or to build their own mailto: links for sharing on social media.

Inspired by the current social movements, and enables ease of use for end users

jameswatling··on Show HN: Boards for Mac
Looks great! Going to try and use to plan over the next few weeks. Will make sure to rate on the app store! First impressions are really nice, much rather use a smaller product than the feature bloated, or money hungry larger ones that exist
jameswatling··on The next professional network will not look like LinkedIn
Interesting to see that even one of the co-founders of Linkedin has had similar thoughts, and started another company trying to focus on using your network to produce value, rather than be focused on recruiters and enterprise $.

You can see more here (random interesting video from the platform) https://joinhub.com/posts/2hZQ9FZp?rc=James-Watling-4505

jameswatling··on Show HN: Arbbot – Open Source Bitcoin/Altcoin Arbitrage Trading Bot
Is there anyway you can put this back up? Apparently github has taken it down
jameswatling··on Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Book Club Review
Thanks - Link for the interested [https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Mindset-The-New-Psychology-...]
jameswatling··on Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Book Club Review
Most of the book is giving examples of different mindsets - Dweck more or less gives examples so that you are able to identify them yourself. She also gives a few practical steps you can take to apply more of a growth attitude
jameswatling··on Hey Look, It's Every Bootstrap Website Ever
Is this template available for sale? I would like to purchase it!