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lukeHeuer··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2019)
Location: Bay Area

Remote: Yes, and I have extensive experience working remotely.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Go, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux.

Résumé/CV: https://www.lukeheuer.com/resume/a1g

Email: luke@heuerlabs.com

Full disclosure: I’m pretty far along in the process of exploring opportunities and already have some offers on the table. I’m still open to considering more opportunities for the time being.

lukeHeuer··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)
Location: Bay Area

Remote: Yes, and I have extensive experience working remotely.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Senior full stack engineer and technical leader currently enjoying working with Go (Golang), Ruby on Rails, React, Next.js, and Kubernetes.

Résumé/CV: https://www.LukeHeuer.com/resume/a7o

Email: Luke@HeuerLabs.com

lukeHeuer··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (June 2019)
SEEKING WORK

Location: Sonoma, CA

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Currently, I'm enjoying working with Go, Rails, React, Next.js, and Kubernetes.

Portfolio: https://www.lukeheuer.com/portfolio/a7f

Résumé/CV: Please email some project details so that I can provide a resume outlining my relevant experience and skills.

Email: luke@heuerlabs.com

lukeHeuer··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2019)
Location: Sonoma, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Currently, I'm enjoying working with Go, Rails, React, Next.js, and Kubernetes.

Portfolio: https://www.lukeheuer.com/portfolio/a7f

Résumé/CV: Please email some position details so that I can provide a resume outlining my relevant experience and skills.

Email: luke@heuerlabs.com

lukeHeuer··on Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well
For sure. There are some great, valid points in it as well.
lukeHeuer··on Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well
Most of the guidance is very outdated. It's likely to confuse more than clarify unless you've taken the time to study modern resources. I prefer Bryan Garner's work, like his usage guides.

There is a great episode of Lexicon Valley where the dustier advice from The Elements of Style is called out: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/against-strunk-white/i...

lukeHeuer··on [dead]
According to the Show HN guidelines[0], this is for things that are ready to be used, not coming soon / other sign-up only pages or blog posts:

> If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then.

> Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

lukeHeuer··on Ask HN: How do you read the news without getting depressed?
This podcast episode is a good introduction to the ideas directly relating to stoicism and news: https://soundcloud.com/goodfortunecast/episode-6 - it's on iTunes as well.
lukeHeuer··on Launch HN: Bottomless (YC W19) – Coffee Restocked with a Smart Scale
Sure, coffee roaster here. It's false that allowing beans to degas c02 preserves them indefinitely as the parent comment seems to imply. There is however about a 10-hour window after roasting where degassing of c02 is so vigorous it impedes oxidation. Freezing vacuum sealed coffee, both green and roasted beans, will preserve it almost perfectly for years because freezing decreases oxidation rates by more than 90% and slows the movement of volatiles.[0] Enough people have documented and tested this and it's very common for Cup of Excellence winning and other notable coffees to be stored for extended periods of time this way. There are even cafes with reserves of such coffee, you can walk in and they'll pull winners from years ago for you to try. Scott Rao documents the research and resulting evidence of why it's beneficial to freeze coffee in his book The Coffee Roaster's Companion.[1] It's just not economical at scale, or necessary. Green coffee is "fresh" for about 9 months on average, most roasters go through specific lots of coffee well before that window closes. The sad reality is that most roasted coffee is well past its peak by the time it reaches the consumer.

You can conduct an at-home experiment yourself by finding a local roaster, asking when their roast days are and if you can get some coffee from that batch before it's allowed to rest. Seal and freeze a portion while keeping the rest in a normal valve-release bag and compare after a week or two.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Technology-Michael-Sivetz/dp/0... [1] https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Roasters-Companion-Scott-2014-...

lukeHeuer··on Ask HN: Which stack do you use at your startup?
On https://www.stackpair.com I'm using Go, Rails, Redis, Memcached, Minio, Sidekiq, Postgres, and Kubernetes on GKE.

The iOS app is Cordova: https://www.stackpair.com/apps/ios

For storage and backups I use Hubic and Rclone. Hubic is the best deal I've been able to find for LTS: 10TB for €5/m.

lukeHeuer··on Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?
I built https://www.stackpair.com because I was over reading job listings to get an idea of what I'd be working with. It puts as much info as possible up front about the languages, stack, and tools used in the position. The search makes finding relevant positions easy, the query "go remote sf" returns what you'd expect, for instance. I also do a lot to feature quality opportunities, which traditional job boards can struggle with.
lukeHeuer··on Ask HN: Is there a service to get your engineering resume reviewed?
I'm not seeing your email in your profile. Adding it to your "about" section should make it public.
lukeHeuer··on Rankings of required skills in software development job listings
For what it's worth, the site aside from the trends page is mobile friendly. The trends pages are something I thought would be cool to throw together with the data I have on the topic and admittedly haven't spent enough time trying to make sure it works everywhere.

edit: should be fixed now

lukeHeuer··on Rankings of required skills in software development job listings
Thanks, I'll work on that. I posted a comment outlining some notable things from it, hope that helps for now.

edit: should be fixed now

lukeHeuer··on Rankings of required skills in software development job listings
Some fluctuations I noticed when comparing the trends from last month and now:

- Go took a dip in demand, down from the 6th most mentioned language in listings to 8th.

When looking at trends from all 2017 reports:

- The top languages steadily in demand this year have been: Python, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, SQL, CSS, HTML, Go, C, and C++

- The top four application frameworks have fairly steadily been: Rails, Spring, Flask, and Django

- React is the top choice when it comes to UI libraries/frameworks. Angular doesn't seem to be gaining on it, and mentions of jQuery have been steadily declining.

- The top three databases/stores have steadily been PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis

lukeHeuer··on Ask HN: What are some of the best job boards you have seen (any industry)?
I started https://www.latitude.work with the goal of featuring quality opportunities for other software engineers in a way that puts the information up front that's important to us. I stayed away from only having paid listings since that seems like a race to the bottom and am focusing on having a great experience for engineers. Would love any feedback on it.
lukeHeuer··on Why building a startup is probably your most sensible career path
Being an extrovert or an introvert has nothing to do with shyness. You can certainly be introverted and not very shy. Bill Gates is a great example of that.
lukeHeuer··on Ask HN: Examples of exceptional Git repo wikis?
Nice, thank you.
lukeHeuer··on Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
Thank you for clarifying. I thought for a second it could have been a grammatical nitpick but discounted that since this thread is re: an Antirez post. I personally would be very sad if his writing style became more forced and began to feel like excerpts from The Elements of Style.
lukeHeuer··on Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
He mentioned using cloc to get that metric, so not including comments, formatting, etc.
lukeHeuer··on Tech job listings are down 40% on several job boards
Authentic Jobs is one of the more old school places that heavily catered to web design type work. A more accurate assessment of this data may be that web design work is drying up, but we've known that for a while. It's hard to say since they don't mention the competitors they are tracking, but they may serve the same shrinking market as well.
lukeHeuer··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2016)
Location: Sonoma, CA and Denver, CO

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go

Résumé/CV: http://www.lukeheuer.com/

Email: luke@heuerlabs.com

Also feel free to get in touch if you are interested in posting on https://www.latitude.work

lukeHeuer··on Show HN: Curated opportunities for advanced engineers
Hey, looking for some early feedback on this. I feel like most job boards and sites have pretty underwhelming opportunities listed, so I thought I’d try a different approach. The idea started when I made a crawler that monitors a large list of companies for active available opportunities. Right now it's pulling from a few sources, then I'm filtering out the ones that either don't seem interesting or like a good fit for advanced engineers. Anything live on the site is an actively available opportunity, and it automatically removes any that become unavailable.

Voting is private to your account, so it is basically a way to tag listings you like or don't like at this point. Votes do not affect listing rankings. The plan is to provide more advanced matching and suggestions based off your votes on tags, listings, companies etc.

If this seems useful to others my plan is to develop the crawler further so that it monitors and pulls in more opportunities, among other things. I was pretty excited that right away it found some better options than I was seeing listed elsewhere.

What do you think?

lukeHeuer··on The Japanese Iced Coffee Method (2012)
No worries at all, just wanted to clarify since we are basically saying the same thing.
lukeHeuer··on The Japanese Iced Coffee Method (2012)
You put a period in that sentence where there wasn't one. I said "darker roasts are easy to achieve consistency with", and as you said, to help better facilitate the commodity approach to coffee.

Dark roasts are not more shelf stable than lighter roasts though. The oils in dark roasts become rancid substantially more quickly because a darker roast has expanded more, and therefore has more surface area to come in contact with air. Starbucks and other big companies say their coffee is shelf stable for about a year, but the reality is coffee peaks 24-72 hours after roasting. Burnt notes grossly outweigh staleness though. That with the benefits of consistency is great for bigger brands exactly for the other reasons you mention.

To add a bit more perspective, green unroasted coffee beans are considered fresh or in season for about 9 months. The more you get away from this in a roast profile the shorter the shelf life.

lukeHeuer··on The Japanese Iced Coffee Method (2012)
We know they've been doing it since the 1600s. As far as written history goes, Kyoto is the furthest back we can trace this brew method.
lukeHeuer··on The Japanese Iced Coffee Method (2012)
Because we know the Japanese have been doing this since the 1600s. Kyoto is credited with the earliest recorded history of this brewing method.
lukeHeuer··on The Japanese Iced Coffee Method (2012)
That was a good article. The only other cause of caffeine variation I'm aware of is altitude. Caffeine is produced as a defense against pests, and since there are fewer pests at higher altitudes less caffeine is generated in that scenario. Coincidently, altitude is usually associated with higher quality coffee. The difference is negligible, so I guess my point is if high caffeine consumption is a goal just drink more coffee.
lukeHeuer··on The Japanese Iced Coffee Method (2012)
You're welcome. I was under the same impression myself until recently. If you really need a kick though, pick up some Robusta. It tastes pretty rough but has more caffeine than Arabica.
lukeHeuer··on The Japanese Iced Coffee Method (2012)
This is a myth. Roasting does not alter caffeine levels, as it is very heat stable. You might get more caffeine from a light roast if you are measuring your beans by volume. Light roasts expand less and are more dense than darker roasts, so you ultimately end up with more mass.
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