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mbaird··on Devlog – converting this WordPress site to Bedrock itself
or the WordPress boilerplate of the same name https://github.com/roots/bedrock
mbaird··on GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all
We've found https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame#Documentation/git-blame.t... very useful in these cases. When Prettier changes significantly, we run across the whole codebase & add the commit to an ignore file.
mbaird··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)
Hey, cool product! Are you hiring globally?
mbaird··on UK Parliament petitions website down amid overwhelming brexit rejection
Straining to calculate trends at 180k an hour

[0] https://twitter.com/pixeltrix/status/1108673644660699136

mbaird··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)
Koru Kids | London | Full-time Onsite | Full Stack Ruby Engineer #4 | https://www.korukids.co.uk/ Koru Kids is growing quickly. We’re on a mission to improve childcare in London, and looking for someone experienced, creative & friendly to join the team as our fourth full stack engineer.

We’re building a managed marketplace that enables families to find and share high quality nannies. As an engineer on the Koru Kids team, you’ll be designing and building tech to make complex matching problems a breeze, to give families and nannies a solution that just works, and to supercharge our nanny recruitment and training processes.

You’ll be working in Ruby for most of the backend, with Rails, PostgreSQL and Redis making up the majority of our core product. You’ll be using modern frontend tooling, with ES6 and Tachyons. When it comes to shipping code, you’ll be sending pull requests and doing code reviews in GitHub, and checking that CircleCI is happy before anything goes live. You’ll mostly be deploying to Heroku, with some heavy lifting on AWS. (That said, our priority is making sure we’re using the right tools for the job and we’re open to adding to or changing up our tech and tooling as appropriate.)

We’re looking a mid-level or experienced generalist or backend web developer who thrives in small, fast-moving engineering teams.

If this sounds interesting, you can read more & apply at https://korukids.workable.com/j/4ECE2E94E8 or email me directly at michael [at] korukids.co.uk

Thanks for reading!

mbaird··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
Koru Kids | London | Full-time Onsite | Full Stack Ruby Engineer #4 | https://www.korukids.co.uk/

Koru Kids is growing quickly. We’re on a mission to improve childcare in London, and looking for someone experienced, creative & friendly to join the team as our fourth full stack engineer.

We’re building a marketplace that enables families to find and share high quality nannies. As an engineer on the Koru Kids team, you’ll be designing and building tech to make complex matching problems a breeze, to give families and nannies a solution that just works, and to supercharge our nanny recruitment and training processes.

You’ll be working in Ruby for most of the backend, with Rails, PostgreSQL and Redis making up the majority of our core product. You’ll be using modern frontend tooling, with ES6 and Tachyons. When it comes to shipping code, you’ll be sending pull requests and doing code reviews in GitHub, and checking that CircleCI is happy before anything goes live. You’ll mostly be deploying to Heroku, with some heavy lifting on AWS. (That said, our priority is making sure we’re using the right tools for the job and we’re open to adding to or changing up our tech and tooling as appropriate.)

We’re looking a mid-level or experienced generalist or backend web developer who thrives in small, fast-moving engineering teams.

If this sounds interesting, you can read more & apply at https://korukids.workable.com/j/4ECE2E94E8 or email me directly at michael [at] korukids.co.uk

Thanks for reading!

mbaird··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
Koru Kids | London | Full-time Onsite | Full Stack Ruby Engineer #2 | https://www.korukids.co.uk

Koru Kids is growing quickly. We’re on a mission to improve childcare in London, and looking for someone experienced, creative & friendly to join the team as our second full stack engineer.

We’re building a marketplace that enables families to find and share great quality nannies. To do this, we’re building great software for our families, supporting our matching team with critical tools that make complex matching problems a breeze, and using technology to supercharge our nanny recruitment and training processes.

We’re continuously improving our product, building key features that will move the needle in a big way. Instead of an endless product roadmap, we run short development cycles to test assumptions and make smart decisions quickly. This isn’t a sprint and there’s no project managers, we work closely with the rest of the business to make sure we deliver the most value to our customers.

Our stack uses Ruby for most of the backend, with Rails, PostgreSQL and Redis making up the majority of our core product. We use modern front end tooling, with ES6, React and Tachyons. When it comes to shipping code, we love GitHub code reviews and making CircleCI happy before anything gets into production. We mostly deploy to Heroku, with some heavy lifting on AWS. We favour feature flags over staging environments and deploy to production as often as we need to; deployment cycles shouldn’t get in the way of delivering value.

We’re looking for an experienced Ruby developer who thrives in small, fast-moving engineering teams.

If this sounds interesting, you can read more & apply at https://korukids.workable.com/jobs/622008 or email me directly at michael [at] korukids.co.uk

mbaird··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)
Our founder Rachel is yes!
mbaird··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)
Koru Kids | London | Full-time Onsite | Full Stack Ruby Engineer #2 | https://www.korukids.co.uk

Koru Kids is growing quickly. We’re on a mission to improve childcare in London, and looking for someone experienced, creative & friendly to join the team as our second full stack engineer.

We’re building a marketplace that enables families to find and share great quality nannies. To do this, we’re building great software for our families, supporting our matching team with critical tools that make complex matching problems a breeze, and using technology to supercharge our nanny recruitment and training processes.

We’re continuously improving our product, building key features that will move the needle in a big way. Instead of an endless product roadmap, we run short development cycles to test assumptions and make smart decisions quickly. This isn’t a sprint and there’s no project managers, we work closely with the rest of the business to make sure we deliver the most value to our customers.

Our stack uses Ruby for most of the backend, with Rails, PostgreSQL and Redis making up the majority of our core product. We use modern front end tooling, with ES6, React and Tachyons. When it comes to shipping code, we love GitHub code reviews and making CircleCI happy before anything gets into production. We mostly deploy to Heroku, with some heavy lifting on AWS. We favour feature flags over staging environments and deploy to production as often as we need to; deployment cycles shouldn’t get in the way of delivering value.

We’re looking for an experienced Ruby developer who thrives in small, fast-moving engineering teams.

If this sounds interesting, you can read more & apply at https://korukids.workable.com/jobs/622008 or email me directly at michael [at] korukids.co.uk

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Koru Kids | London | Full-time Onsite | Full Stack Ruby Engineer #2 | https://www.korukids.co.uk/

Koru Kids is growing quickly. We’re on a mission to improve childcare in London, and looking for someone experienced, creative & friendly to join the team as our second full stack engineer.

We’re building a marketplace that enables families to find and share great quality nannies. To do this, we’re building great software for our families, supporting our matching team with critical tools that make complex matching problems a breeze, and using technology to supercharge our nanny recruitment and training processes.

We’re continuously improving our product, building key features that will move the needle in a big way. Instead of an endless product roadmap, we run short development cycles to test assumptions and make smart decisions quickly. This isn’t a sprint and there’s no project managers, we work closely with the rest of the business to make sure we deliver the most value to our customers.

Our stack uses Ruby for most of the backend, with Rails, PostgreSQL and Redis making up the majority of our core product. We use modern front end tooling, with ES6, React and Tachyons. When it comes to shipping code, we love GitHub code reviews and making CircleCI happy before anything gets into production. We mostly deploy to Heroku, with some heavy lifting on AWS. We favour feature flags over staging environments and deploy to production as often as we need to; deployment cycles shouldn’t get in the way of delivering value.

We’re looking for an experienced Ruby developer who thrives in small, fast-moving engineering teams.

If this sounds interesting, you can read more & apply at https://korukids.workable.com/jobs/622008 or email me directly at michael [at] korukids.co.uk

mbaird··on Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data
At the top of the setup guide is a link to a provisioning script which might help: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/getredash/redash/master/se...
mbaird··on Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
Just checked with a couple folks here, the limit is for the iTunes store, and therefore was also raised for iOS 6 (we assume older versions as well, but don't support them either).
mbaird··on Rubygems.org AWS bill for Feb 2014 [pdf]
FYI, the OTA limit was increased to 100MB back in September.

We're managing to squeeze our apps into this at the moment, but will likely need a similar solution using S3/CloudFront in the near future.

[1] http://www.macrumors.com/2013/09/18/apple-increases-over-the...

mbaird··on Git Cheatsheet
http://3d247fe.5minfork.com/git-cheatsheet.html
mbaird··on What Coke Contains
In the UK it still uses sugar, and imho tastes a whole lot better than the HFCS version.