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kevinoldon Maintaining wait-on at agent speed: AI, NPM supply-chain risk, and a Rust engine

My first week as a maintainer of wait-on humbling: 6 releases, 10.0 rc, and a Rust engine passing the same 496 tests. ~6 hrs of my steering + Compound Engineering

kevinoldon You're Not in the Loop Anymore. You're Running the Loops

A dozen agents shipping at once. Claude Code, Codex, Pi on one board via @herdrdev. @every's compound engineering for the discipline.

Went to bed. Woke up to merged PRs. Not vibe coding.

kevinoldon How is everyone managing user authentication for their platform?

Regarding SMS only auth, you should be cautious. Here's a blog with more detail: https://stytch.com/blog/totp-vs-sms.

As a suggestion for what to implement (I'm biased because I work there) but I'd encourage you to check out Stytch (https://stytch.com). We're an API-first authentication, authorization and fraud prevention B2C and B2B solution with several methods including email/password, email magic links, social logins and 2FA (OTP, TOTP).

kevinoldon Looking for alternatives to auth0, Eartho and Firebase auth (user login service)

Hello from DevRel at Stytch! Happy to answer any questions, but I'd encourage you to start here: https://stytch.com/blog/why-switch-to-stytch/

kevinoldon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)

Cypress | Full-time | Remote in North America | https://cypress.io Cypress provides developers and QA engineers with a better, faster, more reliable way to test anything that runs in a browser. Cypress makes writing, running and debugging tests easy for hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide, including engineering and QA teams from Disney, Slack, GoFundMe, Shopify, PayPal, Betterment, GitHub, NBA, Wayfair, and more.

We're hiring for the following roles (and more!):

- Data Scientist

- Developer Experience Engineer

- Senior Engineer, Dashboard

- Senior Software Engineer, E2E Test Runner

- Senior Product Designer

- Senior Product Manager, App

- VP, Product Management, Solutions

Apply for any of these roles here: https://grnh.se/1a2f20e74us

kevinoldon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)

Cypress | Full-time | Remote in North America | https://cypress.io

Cypress provides developers and QA engineers with a better, faster, more reliable way to test anything that runs in a browser. Cypress makes writing, running and debugging tests easy for hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide, including engineering and QA teams from Disney, Slack, GoFundMe, Shopify, PayPal, Betterment, GitHub, NBA, Wayfair, and more.

We're hiring for the following roles (and more!):

- Data Scientist

- Developer Experience Engineer

- Senior Engineer, Dashboard

- Senior Software Engineer, E2E Test Runner

- Senior Product Designer

- Senior Product Manager, App

- VP, Product Management, Solutions

Apply for any of these roles here: https://grnh.se/1a2f20e74us

kevinoldon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)

Cypress | Full-time | Remote in North America | https://cypress.io

We're hiring for the following roles:

- Community Customer Success Manager

- Customer Success Engineering Team Lead

- Customer Success Manager

- Data Scientist

- Developer Experience Engineer

- Senior Engineer, Dashboard

- Senior Software Engineer, E2E Test Runner

- Growth Marketing Manager

- Marketing Operations & Insights Manager

- Head of Talent & Community

- Senior Product Designer

- Senior Product Manager, App

- VP, Product Management, Solutions

- GTM Analytics Manager

- Revenue Operations Manager

- Senior Account Executive

- Senior Technical Talent Acquisition Partner

Apply for any of these roles here: https://grnh.se/1a2f20e74us

kevinoldon Ask HN: How do you stay motivated to work on side projects?

I'm currently reading "Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results" and have to say it's could work for me. I've battled with starting/stopping side projects. This book presents an interesting argument in that willpower and making "stupid simple" tasks that you do every day (his example is one pushup) is the key to building a habit since repetition is what is necessary to build a true habit.

http://www.amazon.com/Mini-Habits-Smaller-Bigger-Results-ebo...

kevinoldon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2014)

Multiple Openings for Ruby on Rails and Senior JavaScript Developers - Coupa, San Mateo or REMOTE - Fulltime

See our official postings here:

http://www.coupa.com/openings/73-ruby-on-rails-developer

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/67201/senior-javascrip...

We have plenty of other openings in all areas. See: http://www.coupa.com/careers/openings

If you're in the Bay Area, please join us for an Open House at Coupa Software for Ruby on Rails Engineers. September 10th, 2014 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Let us know if you will be attending via this event page! http://on.fb.me/1o7lp3H

About Coupa

San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal have named Coupa Software one of the top 50 companies to work for in the Bay Area.

Do you want to work for a company that The Wall Street Journal named one of the top 50 new start-up companies or the Business Insider states is one of the 25 Enterprise Startups To Bet Your Career on? Coupa is building a world-class company of experienced professionals and we could be looking for you.

Coupa is emerging as one of the hottest Cloud Applications companies. Already managing $10+ billion in spending for worldwide enterprises, Coupa is recognized as the next generation leader of Spend Management solutions. With Coupa, the global enterprise is able to manage expenses, encourages smarter spending with innovative tools, provide real time views, and makes recommendations for organizational improvement.

If interested, please send your resume to careers@coupa.com. Please be advised, inquiries or resumes from recruiters will NOT be accepted.

kevinoldon Anxiety: Nothing to Do but Embrace the Dread

This book has not only helped me with back, neck, and shoulder pain but anxiety too.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Divided-Mind-ebook/dp/B000SEHJOI/r...

Turns out simple breathing exercises can lower most of my anxiety.

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART00521/three-breathing-exercis...

kevinoldon Ask HN: What is your workflow for saving bookmarks?

Anyone know of a good way to import bookmarks from delicious to Google Bookmarks? Searches only turn up several scripts that have rotted and to install Google Toolbar in FF. I just want a simple script or am hoping Google jumps on this and offers importing via any browser.

kevinoldon Why aren't you using git-flow?

I've done some playing around with a dummy "existing" repo and it seems to adapt well. Upon "git flow init" it identifies existing branches and proceeds with the questionnaire in the article above associating.

Here's a gist I created showing how an existing repo (although very basic) can be adapted to use git-flow - http://gist.github.com/538326

kevinoldon Why aren't you using git-flow?

Has anyone used git-flow with an existing repo? It seems like existing branches could just be renamed from "myfeature" to "feature/myfeature", etc. but I wonder if others have been down this road and have run into issues.

kevinoldon You got the programming fatigue?

I didn't have the eye strain problems, but did have pain in arms, wrists, under and around my shoulder blade for my right hand. I used my right had to mouse. Was working on a project that "must go live" and the last month of implementation I spent 60 hours a week coding. Seriously.

Big mistake. A day after the launch I could not type, mouse, anything with my right hand as my muscles would ache and lock up.

At work I had a desktop, at home a laptop. The laptop was on a desk that violated every law of ergonomics known to man. The chair was a cheap $79 chair I got in college from the local office supply store. More mistakes.

Fast forward a year, I'd begun to notice that my right arm/hand ached all the time and the area between my shoulder blade and spine constantly held a knot.

My PCP prescribed pills and sent me to physical therapy. That helped a little but the side effects from the pills made me feel drunk all the time. The PT used a technique called "traction" that I later found out was chiropractic in nature. That stretched my neck and seemed to help the symptoms. That an excercises and an occasional pill when I had a bad flare up seemed to help manage things.

Fast forward another year and after an ergonomic makeover (explained below) I was hurting again and figured I'd go see a Chiropractor which my family (all Chiro success stories) suggested I go to. Wow! I've just celebrated 1 year of Chiropractic care and feel amazing! It's not solved all of my issues and I still have to manage my time in front of the computer, but it forces me to use it wisely.

Here's a list of items that have helped me:

- Read everything you can about Ergonomics

- Buy an Elevator for your laptop - www.griffintechnology.com/products/elevator - By itself it isn't high enough for me so I have 2 thick text books under that as well to keep my eyes at a 90 degree angle from my screen

- Buy a good chair. I broke down and bought an Aeron chair from a used office supply store. One of the best moves I could have made.

- Take loads of breaks, stretch, excercise. Push ups, lateral pulls, "give yourself a hug" all relieve tension and strain. Find any and all stretches for your neck and upper back.

- Sleep. Really, look at the code you've written when you're fatigued and look at code you've written when rested. My CTO says that "every programmer has 4 good hours of code in them a day". That doesn't mean to work 4 hours, but that you need to listen to yourself when you're "spent". Accomplish the toughest tasks first thing, then once your "spent" do the menial tasks that take effort but little critical thinking.

- Go to a Chiropractor. I kick myself for suffering literally for 2 years! For the wrist pain, they can pop your wrists and relieve the pain.

Good luck and I hope my suggestions help someone.