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shayneoon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

this is awesome, good work!

shayneoon The language brain matters more for learning programming than the math brain

As a self taught programmer with a Communication Studies degree, this definitely resonates. The ability to articulate the problem in code is kind of the starting point for most productive development work.

shayneoon I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

I actually have the exact opposite experience when I try out Chromium based browsers. I end up missing FF dev tools. I love the ability to edit and resend network requests. I'm sure I could figure out how do to so in Chrome devtools, but just not as intuitive (at least to me!)

shayneoon Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

I've started tinkering on a tool for test case management. It would be a direct competitor of things link TestRail or Practitest. QA folks that I talk to seem to feel very underserved by these types of tools, so it feels like there would be demand for something with a bit more polish.

Check it out: https://qually.app/

shayneoon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

https://shello.app

I built this desktop app to provide a gui for managing environment variables. I bounce between many environments and run scripts pretty regularly, so it helps!

No login, no network requests. Just uses your file system.

shayneoon Show HN: Shello – Wrangle environment variables

You might be looking for something like https://www.doppler.com/

Though I could see adding “teams” features to shello that help with syncing and cloud environments

shayneoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)

Vinli | Sr. Data Scientist | Remote (US) | Full-Time

We're looking to add another core contributor to our Data Science team, where we analyze millions of miles worth of connected-car data each day.

We're a small but mighty team, so you'll have plenty of opportunities to influence product and team direction.

Apply here, and/or reach out to me directly with a compelling email as to why you'd be a good fit shayne [at] vin.li

https://vinli.breezy.hr/p/5d9b3398df62-sr-data-scientist