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russellpekala

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russellpekala··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)
Software is eating the world but healthcare is eating the economy. And I'm eating a Yuzu.
russellpekala··on Why doctors hate their computers (2018)
Check out this blog for the best summary of why data has hurt medicine and insurance https://yuzu.health/blog/ai-will-not-fix-healthcare-admin.

The company Yuzu is hiring too. Worth reaching out if you care about how to fix this issue.

russellpekala··on Svelte 5 Released
If you like Svelte, Yuzu Health is hiring developers to work in Svelte in New York City. https://yuzu.health/careers/senior-software-engineer

Seems like the number of companies using Svelte in production is growing but still not super high.

russellpekala··on Krazam OS
How much do we need to pay this guy to quit software and just make jokes?

This guy is an icon.

russellpekala··on The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk (2023)
I heard that this business unit turned into 3Ms healthcare data analytics business partially because healthcare customers kept buying floppy disks after everyone else stopped. https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/health-information-systems-us/dr...
russellpekala··on I Can Eat Glass
I love this. My coworkers and I call ourselves glasseaters since we're all so scrappy.

The guy who started this translation project (per the wikipedia) was himself a startup founder https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/.

russellpekala··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)
Yuzu Health | Senior Software Engineer | $200k+ TC | NYC only

https://yuzu.health/careers/founding-senior-engineer

We're building a modern health plan for startups that doesn't suck.

Software is eating the world. Healthcare is eating the economy.

russellpekala··on New health insurance “transparency data” looks suspiciously wrong
If you want to be a part of this battle while also not being a part of the "middleman" (e.g. price transparency venders), come join us at Yuzu Health. We are hiring for a senior engineer to help us build a modern health plan tailored to the needs of startups and their employees.

https://yuzu.health/careers

russellpekala··on The new wave of React state management
I do find redux super helpful for undo/redo (as mentioned in the article) and have not found a similar library for another state management solution that can do quite what I need there.
russellpekala··on Whist, a new cloud-hybrid browser
this is awesome, if I didn’t have the M1 I bet I would need this given how many tabs I always have open…