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jpmonetteon Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place

will have a look!

jpmonetteon Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place

Looks really nice! Any plan to add social aspect like comments, likes and such?

Fish is the way to go! Used to be a fan of ZSH but also struggled with performance issues. No performance issue with Fish! Only issue might be plugins / some copy/paste bash stuff, but it's so worth the performance.

jpmonetteon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)

SEEKING WORK | London, UK | Remote preferred | Full-Stack Engineer

I’m a full-stack engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable apps and shipping products end-to-end for startups and Fortune 500s (healthtech, pharma, SaaS). I specialize in React, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS.

Recently led engineering on MapLab (Komodo Health), a patient data analytics platform.

I also:

- Speak English & French, and communicate well with product/design - Won AI & crypto hackathons (Solana, Filecoin, ETHGlobal) - Contributed to Salesforce’s React Native SDK (TypeScript migration)

Tech: React, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, Terraform, Docker, AWS, GitHub Actions, Salesforce, ChatGPT, HuggingFace

- hn at jpmonette [dot] net

jpmonetteon Show HN: A Tool to Summarize Kenya's Parliament with Rust, Whisper, and LLMs

Oh wow that's pretty cool, been working on something similar to that for my local assembly!

jpmonetteon Texting myself the weather every day

Have you tried push notifications through a PWA? Not sure it works but could skip the need for Twilio & £20 budget!

https://push.foo/

jpmonetteon Steve Jobs would have fired everyone

Looks quite relevant for Vision Pro, transparent screens, AR and such. I think that's the rational. Maybe a transparent iPhone screen coming up?

jpmonetteon Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs

You can also do the same with OpenAI Codex (with Ollama for example):

1. ~ codex --provider ollama 2. Run: /model 3. Pick your model 4. Profit!

jpmonetteon Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec

Had in mind to build something like this for quite some time to quickly explore undocumented APIs - looking forward to see your progress!

jpmonetteon A Man on a Mission to Expose Sneaky Price Increases

https://archive.ph/7FhSE

jpmonetteon Nomad drained of $150m due to a coding mistake

Isn't the same thing for oss contributions, npm packages, etc.?

jpmonetteon 1.1.1.1 for Families

For the most up to date information about 1.1.1.1 for Families, here's their product page: https://1.1.1.1/family/

jpmonetteon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)

Sr. Mobile Engineer

Must preferably be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder

This is a remote position

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We're seeking a Sr. Mobile Engineer to join our product team to serve as a key contributor within the product engineering organization to improve our Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences software-as-a-service offerings. The Sr. Mobile Engineer will report to and collaborate with the Vice President of Products & Vice President of Research & Development to serve within a high performance engineering team that is able to leverage the capabilities of the Salesforce.com platform and modern mobile technologies to drive ongoing innovation within the Mavens product portfolio. Ideal candidate will be an individual who takes ownership of a process and accountability for its day to day activities, is able to work independently or as part of a team, and seeks to work on a diverse range of technologies and processes.

- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management or equivalent field

- Experience serving in a leadership role within technology groups and leading a team of engineers

- 5-7+ years of experience professional software development building and delivering highly scalable, reliable, and complex software systems on-time and on budget

- 3+ years professional experience with mobile development iOS and/or Android (Swift/ObjC/Java)

- 1-2+ years demonstrable experience with real-world iOS or Android projects for the App Store or Enterprise distribution - Demonstrated expertise in developing applications with the React Native framework

- Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous integration, build processes, testing, and operations

- A commitment to writing quality code including writing unit and UI automated tests

- An eagerness to learn new things and to help others do the same

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and project management to understand requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs

→ jpmonette@mavens.com

jpmonetteon Impossible Pork

Cause he’s “one of those weird people” that do so.

jpmonetteon Why Americans Spend So Much on Health Care–In 12 Charts

You can skip the paywall here (if you have a Facebook account, of course):

http://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/why...

jpmonetteon FAQ: Why don't we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them?

Every problem can be solved with a nuke, of course.

jpmonetteon Ask HN: How much do developers earn in Europe?

Data is impossible to read - seems like some people are converting their salary to USD, some others leave it in their home currency and a rare few provide the accurate currency. Interesting initiative though - would love to see this in a better format :)

jpmonetteon Free Data Science Books

Thank you - this is a wonderful ressource that I had lost in my list of bookmarks about data science. That's another good example of information overload.

jpmonetteon Fifty

Happy birthday Jacques. This is definitely an interesting eye opener article for a young professional like me, giving a clearer picture about how life can be for a curious technical person at 50.

jpmonetteon HTTP/2 technology demo

12.75s vs 1.40s. This is quite impressive - looking forward to a faster Web, slowly migrating to HTTP/2.

Any clue if Amazon CDN service is / will offer HTTP/2 support too?

jpmonetteon Bokken – Open-Source Reverse Code Engineering

This reminds me a lot of IDA's interface on Windows. Wish it was easier to install.

jpmonetteon Nexus 4 battery bloating

Nexus 4 received bad press in the past years after customer disappointment: overheating, camera issue (making the phone crash - warning about this bug in Snapchat), horrible battery life... This article is just another example.

Very disappointed to hear that it happened with a Google backed device - I hope Nexus 5 and Nexus 6 are more stable better. Not sure if I'll buy another Nexus phone in the future after reading all that.

jpmonetteon Ask HN: Do companies accept self-taught programmers?

tl;dr - Yes.

Studying is still very important and valued by a lot of companies. I'd recommend to study in something else "complimentary" that passionate you and learn/improve in software engineering outside school to have a more diversified skillset. That's what I did 4 years ago, landed my first software engineer job and now had the opportunity to move to London because of that!

jpmonetteon Go + gxui: Rendering native app GUIs on any platform?

https://salt.bountysource.com/teams/papyros

http://papyros.io/2014/11/20/introduction-and-initial-plans....

http://papyros.io/monthly-update/2015/02/05/monthly-status-u...

jpmonetteon How apps track your location without asking for permission

So what is that tool name mapping the BSSIDs on a Google Map? http://blog.trustlook.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Screen-...

jpmonetteon Sublime Text 3 Build 3080

I used to simply ignore that nag screen, but decided to buy a license of ST3 since I use it every day - best investment in a while. I hope to see a stable ST3 build soon and some nice new features soon :)!

jpmonetteon Go Koans

Good approach to learn Go with simple examples. Thanks!

jpmonetteon WebGL Water Simulator

Can't wait to see some more crazy stuff done in WebGL! Working fine on my MBA 2014, but I think it's the first time I heard the fan spinning :)!