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kbrownlees

18 karma · joined July 10, 2015

meet.hn/city/nz-Nelson

Interests: Fitness, IoT, Networking, Remote Work, Startups

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kbrownlees··on ‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut
Amazing write up thank you. If you haven’t already tried you may enjoy the how other dad’s dad podcast by Hamish Blake. It definitely has some things in it which may change your perspective.
kbrownlees··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)
Virtual Superintendent | Senior Software Engineer | Full-time | Remote (AU/NZ)

We are a passionate team who is in the process of changing construction. Our product (https://www.thevirtualsuperintendent.com/) is trusted to run many of the largest heavy construction projects in Australia. As we expand globally, we need a senior software engineer to work across our entire stack.

Tech stack: TypeScript across web, backend, and mobile applications. AWS / PostgreSQL backend.

We are fully remote, the majority of our team is based in either New Zealand or Australia.

If you are interested email join # virtualsuper.com with your details.

kbrownlees··on Why are there no startups in the real estate construction sector?
I am in horizontal construction (in Australia) and it is pretty much the same story. The key is having a person who can relate to both the corporate & project people, and has the understanding to translate that into a useful product. Quite rare it seems.
kbrownlees··on A Better Pip Workflow
I can second this method, I use docker to generate my frozen requirements though. This allows you to get a frozen set of requirements from a clean environment without the random stuff that can be installed locally.

https://gist.github.com/kbrownlees/80c1a16aa226e5d52677e011b...

kbrownlees··on Slack is down
I love how https://status.slack.com/ says 'All's good under the hood, boss!' yet https://slack.com is responding with 503s.
kbrownlees··on Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users?
FYI: your website is broken on my android phone, it is too wide and doesn't allow me to scroll.
kbrownlees··on Django REST framework 3.6 released
I have been really impressed by the quality of the releases lately. It has been interesting watching the changes after Tom Christie managed to become full time on it [0] (and the successful Kickstarter campaign [1]).

I would love to see this sort of funding become more common place.

[0]: https://fund.django-rest-framework.org/topics/funding/

[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomchristie/django-rest...

kbrownlees··on Troubling chemicals found in wide range of fast-food wrappers
Can confirm this, my previous house had a conduction cooktop and it worked perfectly with my cast iron skillet.
kbrownlees··on $15 Production Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean
I was using rancher, but it is seriously memory hungry (mine seemed to need 2G) so you would need a $20 Digital Ocean box just to run rancher. Also, the agents / monitoring rancher uses was eating quite a lot of memory / CPU on each host.
kbrownlees··on GitLab Master Plan
The new version of drone (0.5) is much better imho, although it is still in beta so can be a bit frustrating at times. They have relaxed a bunch of the constraints and removed alot of the magic. Plus plugins are alot easier to write now.

(Not involved, just a happy user)

kbrownlees··on Show HN: Would love some feedback on my weekend project (built in 3 days)
I have the same issue as well when using Chromium (Version 47.0.2526.111 (64-bit)). Works fine in Firefox.
kbrownlees··on How We Deploy Python Code
I have had good success with http://doc.devpi.net/latest/