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petestaples··on The Inter typeface family
We are also fans: For our everyday workhorse typeface, we exchanged Roboto for Inter. Roboto is a little bit narrow, and it turns out that Inter was developed by a Swede living in San Francisco, Rasmus Andersson, as a solution to a bunch of limitations he found with Roboto. It looked good and it was widely available free of charge. Tack själv, Rasmus! https://bcdevices.com/blogs/the-watershed/our-rebranding-eff...
petestaples··on Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages
Thanks gsmecher. We lean on YAML for writing automated hardware test scripts and have good reasons for it. JSON doesn't allow comments which are needed for a distributed team to understand the meaning of the tests. https://docs.pltcloud.com/TestPlanReference
petestaples··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)
Blue Clover Devices (https://bcdevices.com) is recruiting in the South Park neighborhood of SF for a Sr. Firmware Engineer: https://angel.co/company/blue-clover-devices/jobs/669377-sr-...

Join a team with a modern approach to firmware/hardware development.

+Firmware development for IoT devices of BCD customers +Technical support for Production Line Tool (PLT) customers +Extend PLT-OS

MUST HAVES: Familiar with GitHub / Pull Requests / Branching & Merging Linux-based development (Docker, Makefile / CMake) Bare metal embedded C/C++ Embedded Linux development (kernel drivers)

NICE TO HAVE: Programming languages: Golang, Rust RTOS: Zephyr, MyNewt Technology: BLE, iOS app development, Signal Processing, Machine Learning

PERKS: OSS participation: Zephyr, Elixir Nerves Professional development: courses, training

petestaples··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)
Blue Clover Devices | Firmware Developer | SF | On-site, Full Time | https://angel.co/company/blue-clover-devices/jobs/669377-sr-...

Founded in 2003, BCD is a full service electronics ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) providing firmware development, hardware design, PCBA, and precision cable assembly to discerning firms. We have offices in San Francisco, Hong Kong and Shenzhen. We specialize in IoT devices and have come to be known as THE IoT ODM.

We're looking for a Senior Firmware Developer, developing firmware for our customer's IoT devices, and extend our Production Line Tool (PLT) in-circuit program and test offering.

MUST HAVES: - Familiar with GitHub / Pull Requests / Branching & Merging - Linux-based development (Docker, Makefile / CMake) - Bare metal embedded C/C++ - Embedded Linux development (kernel drivers)

NICE TO HAVE: - Programming languages: Golang, Rust - RTOS: Zephyr, MyNewt - Technology: BLE, iOS app development, Signal Processing, Machine Learning

PERKS: OSS participation: Zephyr, Elixir Nerves Professional development: courses, training