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Hi Oliver! Thanks for reaching out! What are you building yourself? Tell me morreeee.

Managed is an opportunity for sure, but it's complex for a boostrapped solo dev like myself. Supporting Helm charts and reference docker-compose files would be a start I think.

For the Kafka deployment, it a lot of places where I worked, to get Kafka streams, it was never just Kafka. It's say MSK, Schema Registry, tying those together, config-as-code for the topics, and setting this up in the local dev environment. That was a major pain to advocate for the first time this the benefits of streaming would be obvious.

3. For Typestream, Kafka is abstracted away pretty much entirely so I'm actually not positioning this towards people who already have Kafka deployed heavily. It's for those who do dual writes in their code, writing cronjobs for syncing, and have other secondary datastores.

I'm very much testing out the positioning by talking to whoever I can! What are you thinking?

Actually you can avoid having a separate DB! You can build a materialized view of the data using [KTables](https://developer.confluent.io/courses/kafka-streams/ktable/) or use [interactive queries](https://developer.confluent.io/courses/kafka-streams/interac...). The "table" is built up from a backing kafka topic so you don't need maintain another datastore if the data view you want is entirely derived from one or more Kafka topics.

I'm using Librechat which I've found to be quite feature complete. I updated an Obsidian MCP to get my most recent journal entries to act like a therapist. Example setup here: https://www.jevy.org/articles/obsidian-mcps-to-work-with-not...

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Fractional CTO & Staff Level Engineer for Rapid Product Delivery. Ex-Zapier

I'm a deeply technical, hands-on engineer who has founded small companies and led multiple teams. My particular expertise is working with the business to identify high-ROI opportunities and bringing focus to engineering teams to accelerate product delivery. Specialties include:

- Rapid Prototyping: I can quickly prototype ideas leveraging LLMs, DevOps infrastructure, and other cutting-edge technologies. - Fractional CTO: If you need a technical approach or hands-on help for your team, I can do both. I have been a CTO and Director of Engineering previously and have moved to an IC role as a Staff Developer currently. - Accelerating Product Development: I take chaotic engineering teams and bring much-needed alignment and focus, ensuring they're working towards a unified goal and delivering products efficiently.

Some of my recent achievements include: - Took charge of an unfocused team of 13 engineers and data scientists to launch the world’s first free machine learning-based dermatologist app in four weeks. Over 500k uses in 6 months. - Built a document generation prototype using LLMs in two weeks, leading for it become a major development initiative across multiple teams. - Lead product management and business development for an AI product I co-founded: aerial.ai. I led and landed deals with Amazon, Samsung, Panasonic, iRobot and others. - Unlocking mid-market sales for a legal SaaS company by leading performance improvements that delivered 5-10x faster load times Implementing an observability platform using OpenTelemetry to give insights on how our desktop app is performing.

I'm available for part-time engagements, either as a fractional CTO or as a hands-on technical leader. If you need help bringing clarity, focus, and rapid execution to your engineering efforts, let's connect.

Email: jevin@quickjack.ca Personal site: https://www.jevy.org Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, Kafka, 20 years with Linux LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jevinmaltais/

Neat! As an alternative, `home manager (nix)` has an abstraction for defining shell alias[^1] regardless of which shell you use. The main requirement is that home manager also manages your shell for you. [^1]: https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.xhtml#o...

If you want to setup Gmail/Gsuite with Mutt/notmuch, I wrote up an article on how to do so here: https://www.jevy.org/articles/neomutt-lieer-notmuch/

Hope it helps!

There are a number of fundamental pieces of Scrum that are needed so all the pieces fit together.

In the Sprint, one of the fundamental elements is having a "Sprint Goal". This allows the team to see the big picture and add/remove work during the sprint to get to that goal.

Without a clear sprint goal, then of course it's easy to loose the essence or "big picture" of what the team is trying to achieve during the sprint.

I sent off a few messages. I'll report back about the discussions if I hear back.

When my kids want to watch something on a topic, I use yt-dlp to download a bunch of videos.

I have that older synced with my Synology, and my kids have that folder syncing with Synology on their iPad.

I've found this to be a good balance for managing it easily for me, giving them what they want to see without giving youtube access.

originalvichy - You made my week. I hope you find a doc that can support you in this. Don't hesitate to each out to me (email in profile) if you need a sounding board.

I got diagnosed with ADHD 3 months ago after discovering a) my daughter had it and b) that it's highly hereditary.

Probably the best introduction to ADHD is a 1.5 lecture by Dr. Russell Barkley, a top researcher in this area. It's technical, empowering and fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzhbAK1pdPM&list=PLzBixSjmbc...

Looking back in my life, I've built sophisticated TODO list and second brain systems to help me manage. Now it's obvious that it's because my working memory is poor because of my neurodivergency. Omnifocus (for GTD) and Obsidian (to be an extension of my brain) are my goto for leveraging my ADHD superpower.

If you're looking for a community to learn more for yourself or for someone else: reddit.com/r/adhd is a great place to start.

Primary care docs should be able to walk with you on this. After pushing my doc a little bit, he gave me a questionnaire to complete and two weeks later I was starting different medications. There are all kinds of storied on reddit.com/r/adhd of people having issues with their doc. A psychiatrist would have a deeper expertise in managing ADHD if you can get access to one.

Zapier | Data Security Engineer | Remote | Full-time | https://zapier.com/jobs/

Zapier builds automation tools for small business. We have been remote first since the company start and we are hiring across pretty much all departments: https://zapier.com/jobs

I'm an Engineering Manager on the Data team and we are looking for a Data Engineer experienced in security. We support the Data Warehouse Engineers by building infrastructure and tooling to make their jobs easier and increasing the rate we make data driven decision in the company. If it sounds like you might be a good fit, please apply! https://zapier.com/jobs/5105760002/data-engineer-open-to-mos...

Location: Ottawa, Canada

Remote: 10 years so far

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Engineering Manager (1 exit), experienced managing/hiring teams of up to 13 engineers in AI space, web/mobile apps. My coding expertise is Java,Rails,React,Python. Expert in rapid development of products.

Resume: http://bit.ly/3ounY6N

Email: jevin@quickjack.ca

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jevinmaltais/

Some of these WiFi statistics used in this paper are typically not exposed at the user level. You would need to have a modified driver. May or may not be easy to do for an iOS or Android phone.

Since this uses standard WiFi, if you don't have a WiFi network, you're good!

VP Product at aerial.ai (using similar strategies as this paper) here. A few major caveats to make this work:

a) There needs to be enough traffic happening on the network to have the resolution needed to differentiate between people. b) The device needs to be able to see the traffic. This won't protect you from a device in the home that has this technology, but it will from people standing outside of the home (as the signal attenuates a lot outside of the home)

Not using WiFi, but their own RF spectrum. Very cool though.

Hi everyone! I'm VP Product at aerial.ai. We are using some of these techniques for presence, activity and identification. We have 7 patents in this area.

Happy to answer any questions!

Edit: We're hiring DSP, ML and Growth people

Great feedback. How does a consultant do effective marketing/sales towards these organizations? It really seems like a consultant has to "strike when the iron is hot" and be there when there is a problem that needs a solution.

Maybe try to release something VERY early and collect feedback from people. That way you know EXACTLY what to focus on because people will use it. Motivation level: Awesome!

> To celebrate us not getting a YC interview

I loled

+1 for having a unique value prop.

I'll be entirely honest, it's a referral and relationship business. There is no magic. I've cold called (and cold emailed) digital agencies to partner with them. This has given us only a few clients but multiple projects.

Through coworking spaces, volunteering for other (non-technology) organizations led to two projects. I'd love to chat for half an hour if you want ideas: http://sohelpful.me/jevy

Spelling fixed. Thanks OP.

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I have an entirely virtual software consultancy with developers on contract around the world. We have quite a bit of work, but not enough great developers. I have had good results from HN before.

Requirements: 1) Rails 2) Any Javascript framework (we use Ember, Angular and Meteor) 3) Testing. OMG. It's so hard to find developers who write integration or unit tests.

How we work: We have Hipchat for the team where we collaborate and help each other out. We have a project manager who does lots of the client interaction and translates bugs/features into granular user stories in Pivotal Tracker.

If you're interested, hit me up here: jevin+hn@quickjack.ca

SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote

I have an entirely virtual software consultancy with developers on contract around the world. We have quite a bit of work, but not enough great developers. I have had good results from HN before.

Requirements: 1) Rails 2) Any Javascript framework (we use Ember, Angular and Meteor) 3) Testing. OMG. It's so hard to find developers who right integration or unit tests.

How we work: We have Hipchat for the team where we collaborate and help each other out. We have a project manager who does lots of the client interaction and translates bugs/features into granular user stories in Pivotal Tracker.

If you're interested, hit me up here: jevin+hn@quickjack.ca

Wish they would have better explained that. Even being quite technical, run a business and use Ubuntu daily, I couldn't figure it out.

Lord have mercy on the poor business person trying to understand the value.

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