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markprovanon Leveraging Sidekiq for Higher Throughput

I'm pretty new to writing technical posts, so any feedback on the content/style is more than welcome!

markprovanon Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?

This looks pretty much what I'm after. Do you offer any sort of data export?

markprovanon Parliament must vote on whether government can start Brexit process

Let's be honest, Labour stopped being a proper opposition a good while ago.

markprovanon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2016)

SEEKING WORK

Remote Ruby Engineer looking to take on some extra contract work.

I mainy work in Ruby (with Rails) and have experience with Javascript (with Ember)

My current rate is £40 per hour and I would be looking to take on short/medium term projects. I can work to tight deadlines for projects that need completed quickly.

Contact me at: mark(at)prov.works

markprovanon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2016)

Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Remote: Yes or In House

Willing to relocate: For the right role.

Technologies: Ruby/Rails, JS (Ember), Golang (Learning)

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mqi35vclrbuff2c/cv_markprovan.pdf?...

Email: markgprovan@gmail.com

markprovanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

Nice to see a local company(I can almost see your office from my house!) on here using a newer language!

markprovanon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Remote

Location: Scotland

Currently working with Golang, Rails and Ember (using Ember CLI)

Contact me markgprovan (at) gmail.com for a chat :)

markprovanon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Freelance Ruby, Rails & JS Developer

I have 3 years experience working with large Rails apps and 2 years experience using Ember.js

Contact me at markgprovan[at]gmail.com

markprovanon Free private Github repos for students and edu people

Brilliant, I use Github to contribute to open source, but have had my private repos on Bitbucket. It's great to move over to the one platform :) Thanks Github!

markprovanon O’Reilly Media Has Lost Its Soul

Exactly, they were named to point out that they "both possessed integrity and practical minds."

markprovanon Bad sleep 'dramatically' alters body

I've been stressing out a lot about Uni recently, maybe getting a few hours sleep a night (last night I got an hour). Never have I felt worse in my life.

markprovanon Code to Cloud in 5 minutes and 55 Seconds

Switched one of my apps over to this setup (C66 + DO). Going good so far, server provisioning is super slick.

markprovanon Squash

Nice, going to give this a try, along with errbit! (https://github.com/errbit/errbit)

markprovanon Woman Drives for 900 Miles Instead of 90 Thanks to GPS Error

*Thanks to a GPS error combined with complete human stupidity

markprovanon Great HN parody

Nothing about Ruby and scaling? :O

markprovanon Rethinking web API development

I'm currently using the rails_api gem for an API only app I'm building. It's pretty lean.

markprovanon Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)

That's the thing about customer service. People are gonna call you out, but professionalism is in not rising to it.