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nbbaier··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)

  - Location: Chicago, IL, USA
  - Remote: Yes
  - Willing to relocate: No
  - Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, Cloudflare Workers/Durable Objects/D1/KV, Hono, Drizzle ORM, SQLite, PostgreSQL, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, MCP, Tailwind, Git
  - Résumé/CV: https://nicobaier.com/resume.pdf
  - Email: nico.baier@gmail.com
  - Github: https://github.com/nbbaier
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicobaier
  - Website: https://nicobaier.com
Full-stack TypeScript engineer building AI-powered developer tools and edge-first architectures. Recent work includes an autonomous AI research agent with LLM tool chaining, a per-user data isolation system on Cloudflare Durable Objects, and a SQLite database browser used by 200+ developers on Val Town (featured by Val Town's creator on Learn with Jason). Contract work for Val Town (Attio-to-Slack integration template) and Mastra (technical case studies, customer interviews). Background in linguistics research (PhD, UC Berkeley). Looking for roles in full-stack development, AI tooling, or developer experience/tooling.
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
This looks very cool, will most likely check it out!
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
I'd be interested!
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Sounds neat, is the code public?
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
This is so cool! I just bought a license.
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Sounds cool! Is the video available anywhere?
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Are the creator of the `.mdsv` format that's referenced in the stash manual? Never heard of it before. If you are, interested if there's a spec.
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Godspeed
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Reminds me a bit of https://github.com/earendil-works/absurd
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
This is cool, what's the stack?
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Which device is this? I'm thinking of hopping on the ESP32 bandwagon!
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Love the vibe of the website!
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Sounds interesting, where can I find out more?
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Oh nice! Silly my, I didn't scroll up!
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
> https://httpstate.com // a super easy, batteries included, library and server to exchange small bits of data between apps

This is very cool! What's the stack for the actual server?

nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
This is cool, please add Chicago!

Also, what data sources do you aggregate from?

nbbaier··on Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
I think twtxt is really cool. I have one on my site but I don't use it, unfortunately
nbbaier··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

  - Location: Chicago, IL, USA
  - Remote: Yes
  - Willing to relocate: No
  - Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, Cloudflare Workers/Durable Objects/D1/KV, Hono, Drizzle ORM, SQLite, PostgreSQL, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, MCP, Tailwind, Git
  - Résumé/CV: https://nicobaier.com/resume.pdf
  - Email: nico.baier@gmail.com
  - Github: https://github.com/nbbaier
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicobaier
  - Website: https://nicobaier.com
Full-stack TypeScript engineer building AI-powered developer tools and edge-first architectures. Recent work includes an autonomous AI research agent with LLM tool chaining, a per-user data isolation system on Cloudflare Durable Objects, and a SQLite database browser used by 200+ developers on Val Town (featured by Val Town's creator on Learn with Jason). Contract work for Val Town (Attio-to-Slack integration template) and Mastra (technical case studies, customer interviews). Background in linguistics research (PhD, UC Berkeley). Looking for roles in full-stack development, AI tooling, or developer experience/tooling.
nbbaier··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)

  - Location: Chicago, IL, USA
  - Remote: Yes
  - Willing to relocate: No
  - Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, Cloudflare Workers/Durable Objects/D1/KV, Hono, Drizzle ORM, SQLite, PostgreSQL, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, MCP, Tailwind, Git
  - Résumé/CV: https://nicobaier.com/resume.pdf
  - Email: nico.baier@gmail.com
  - Github: https://github.com/nbbaier
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicobaier
  - Website: https://nicobaier.com
Full-stack TypeScript engineer building AI-powered developer tools and edge-first architectures. Recent work includes an autonomous AI research agent with LLM tool chaining, a per-user data isolation system on Cloudflare Durable Objects, and a SQLite database browser used by 200+ developers on Val Town (featured by Val Town's creator on Learn with Jason). Contract work for Val Town (Attio-to-Slack integration template) and Mastra (technical case studies, customer interviews). Background in linguistics research (PhD, UC Berkeley). Looking for roles in full-stack development, AI tooling, or developer experience/tooling.
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
This is very cool!
nbbaier··on AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
I meant your specific tweaks
nbbaier··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
What's the keyboard? I'm intrigued
nbbaier··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
Same here. I am a full-stack engineer but I'm not senior enough for this kind of role. Hope you find someone!
nbbaier··on AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
This sounds neat - do you have this publicly available?
nbbaier··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)

  - Location: Chicago, IL, USA
  - Remote: Yes
  - Willing to relocate: No
  - Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, Cloudflare Workers/Durable Objects/D1/KV, Hono, Drizzle ORM, SQLite, PostgreSQL, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, MCP, Tailwind, Git
  - Résumé/CV: https://nicobaier.com/resume.pdf
  - Email: nico.baier@gmail.com
  - Github: https://github.com/nbbaier
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicobaier
  - Website: https://nicobaier.com
Full-stack TypeScript engineer building AI-powered developer tools and edge-first architectures. Recent work includes an autonomous AI research agent with LLM tool chaining, a per-user data isolation system on Cloudflare Durable Objects, and a SQLite database browser used by 200+ developers on Val Town (featured by Val Town's creator on Learn with Jason). Contract work for Val Town (Attio-to-Slack integration template) and Mastra (technical case studies, customer interviews). Background in linguistics research (PhD, UC Berkeley). Looking for roles in full-stack development, AI tooling, or developer experience/tooling.
nbbaier··on Show HN: Claude Code's $200 plan is a 17× subsidy on the raw API
It's hard for me to figure out what to use all those tokens for
nbbaier··on Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence
Love this and I'm addicted - wish there were hot keys in the battle
nbbaier··on Show HN: Sanjaya – Extract structured datasets from academic journals
Would love to try, but I can't access the app - looks like you've posted the wrong URL!
nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
Trying to do some work on a cairn[0], an embedded temporal document database built on SQLite. It's inspired by endatabas[1]

[0] https://github.com/nbbaier/cairn [1] https://www.endatabas.com/

nbbaier··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
Loop me in when the demo arrives!
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