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trevcanhumanon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)

  Location: Toluca, Mexico
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Java, Python, C, Bash, Processing
  Résumé/CV: https://trevcan.github.io/cv.html
  Email: heror0484 {at] protonmail.com

trevcanhumanon Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore

would you mind sharing the names of the books you bought?

trevcanhumanon YC Demo Day: I mapped out every YC company on an interactive world map

Nice. I would advise merging the countries 'México' and 'Mexico'. They return different sets of companies.

trevcanhumanon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)

  Location: Toluca, Mexico
  Remote: yes but I prefer non-remote or hybrid.
  Willing to relocate: yes (I am a US Citizen)
  interests: cybersecurity, linux, robotics
  Technologies: Java, Linux, wpilib (FRC), some C, DevOps, webservers (lighttpd), basic javascript +php/xampp.
  Résumé/CV: https://cv.thetrevor.tech
  Email: heror0484 [at} protonmail [dot] com

Hello, my name is Hector Canizales. I have experience in Java OOP and was the lead programmer in an FRC robotics team for two years. I was on the team for four. I speak fluent English (C1) and was born in the USA. Right now I live in Mexico. I also speak basic french and native Spanish. I set up a website all by myself and have been learning Linux for about 4 years.

My blog: https://blog.thetrevor.tech

The tech stack used to build the blog is highly minimalist, yet configurable. I wrote some of it myself. Wanna learn more ? See [0]. Well, now it runs on a Digital Ocean droplet after some problems with Arch Linux. I haven't fully migrated everything.

I'm looking for a place to learn a ton of stuff! I know how to drive.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30785816

trevcanhumanon Anonymous public voicemail inbox

He just updated the website.

trevcanhumanon Anonymous public voicemail inbox

It worked for me just as you dialed! My carrier is Telcel.

trevcanhumanon Ask HN: What Are You Learning?

How to enjoy life without school.

trevcanhumanon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)

Hello, my name is Hector Canizales. I have experience in Java OOP and was the lead programmer in an FRC robotics team for two years. I've been on the team for four. I speak fluent English (C1) and was born in the USA. Right now I live in Mexico. I also speak basic french and native Spanish. I set up a website all by myself and have been learning Linux for about 4 years.

My website: https://thetrevor.tech

and a blog where I write a ton of things.

https://blog.thetrevor.tech

I'm looking for an internship or a place to learn a ton of stuff! In case it matters, I know how to drive.

  INTERNSHIP: yes please
  Location: Toluca, Mexico
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: yes
  interests: cybersecurity, linux, robotics
  Technologies: Java, Linux, wpilib (FRC), some C, DevOps, webservers (lighttpd), basic javascript +php/xampp.
  Résumé/CV: https://cv.thetrevor.tech
  Email: heror0484 [at} protonmail [dot] com

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30785816

trevcanhumanon That Time America Outlawed Pinball (2016)

Unfortunately the official History channel website always redirects you to the Latin American version, preventing people with a Latin American IP address to access any US content.

trevcanhumanon A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's

Is this with taxes included?

trevcanhumanon Show HN: Use an old tablet as an extra monitor

I've used Weylus [0]. It works over LAN, lets you control the mouse from your tablet. Sometimes it's laggy, but you can configure the resolution so it's not using too much bandwidth. I'm not sure if it's stable at all. Haven't used it on a regular basis.

[0] https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus

trevcanhumanon Ask HN: Whats the modern day equivalent of 80s computer for kids to explore?

I wonder if there is an equivalent technology or 'activity' from the 80s as addictive and individual as social media.

As a GenZ human myself, I can't really imagine that much of a life without the Internet. In recent months, I've tried to adopt a less-internet lifestyle, such as reading, doing exercise, etcetera. But I still look back and think: if I hadn't had so much time to use a computer and the internet, I never would have discovered my passion (programming). I also get into a vicious cycle when learning new things: I don't commit to anything. (just Linux afaik) There's just so many technologies, stacks coming out, plenty of things, endless things to learn about that I never really wrap my head around what to really learn and dedicate to. But I guess that's more of a general opinion on learning things, not necessarily exclusive of recent technology.

trevcanhumanon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://blog.thetrevor.tech

About life, some tech and linux involved.

trevcanhumanon Ask HN: What do you put in a “in case of death” file?

Better yet, don't even write it in a computer, make it hand-written.

trevcanhumanon They're Made Out of Meat (2005) [video]

what are the people that talk about meat-made creatures are made of?

trevcanhumanon They're Made Out of Meat (2005) [video]

(2005) [video]

trevcanhumanon Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years

yeah, I know. But as another commenter said[0], the lawsuit still does not explain why netflix changed its recommendation system.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35620957

trevcanhumanon Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years

could you explain a little more about the lawsuit ? I don't understand why they'd have to stop using their recommendation system.

trevcanhumanon Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025

I'm using an iPhone 6S, I changed the battery after around three years. The only issue is it gets pretty hot sometimes, still not sure what it is but it's manageable.

trevcanhumanon Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children

As another commenter has said, I'd recommend Processing[0], a java-based language with a graphics library. One of the best ways to get into text-based programming languages.

The tutorials I would recommend are from the Coding Train youtube channel.

You can make tons of games and animations with this, I mostly used it for 2d games.

I have only tried it on high school 10th graders, it's worked pretty good for getting them into object oriented programmming.

[0] https://processing.org

trevcanhumanon Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS

> No it doesn't. It will make zero difference

I'm pretty sure it does, at least with purchases. PWAs won't need to pay for apple's app store 30% cut.

trevcanhumanon Laid Off from Google Search?

nope, you don't even require an email for a new account.

trevcanhumanon Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?

i feel like that was on purpose

trevcanhumanon School vs. Wikipedia

I'm not a bot. I may just have been tired when writing this comment and not at all objective. I didn't mean that budget in public schools is an issue. What I meant to say is that the budget in public schools is not the cause of teachers saying that wikipedia is bad, it's more like a general mindset that people have.

There definitely isn't a solution in my comment. I certainly just critiqued. I did not mean that adblockers don't exist but that the solutions that my teachers seem to give me are also bad.

> That you can stick a space between the last word and the question mark to annoying effect, I suppose.

I didn't mean to make it annoying. I used to put it right besides the last letter but I've found that the French language uses an extra space. I think it looks better. I see you have a different opinion. I did not mean to be overly annoying with it.

trevcanhumanon School vs. Wikipedia

why would it be the budget's fault ?

I disagree. The private high school were I attended also said this about wikipedia. Yet it recommended using Google search and Google scholar for getting the primary sources.

But you know what I've found ? It's hard to read primary sources. I tried reading up on e.g. the cell. The parts of a cell. But I've barely found any primary sources for it. Everything is in ad-filled webpages or cool academic webpages with images but no references!

Also, I think recommending Google search is bad because it tries to guess what you're searching for based on the profile they have about you! That's just so bad for getting objective information.

trevcanhumanon A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements

That would be a very clever prank. Maybe it even has an antenna to connect to cellular or satellite-internet so that the person that control it.

trevcanhumanon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

Nice project, although I'd definitely not use it. The website seems too bloated and as others have said uses too much ram.

For personal use I just curl one of these URLs from my linux machine: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications#Pasteb...

trevcanhumanon My Dad and Kurt Cobain

I somewhat am. I originally wrote this something to look for something that probably isn't on HN. Yes, it is partly the meaning of life. But as I've struggled thru my mid-teens life crisis I never really consider to be 'out' of it. I still constantly struggle to get meaning out of anything. Even school work, assignments, etc. I think to some degree, thinking is driving me nuts. But I didn't mean to say that I did not derive any value from it (as another comment said near here) but that I really did not understand if this was intellectually interesting. It was a nice story, it did get a good development which I enjoyed but I feel like this is just as entertainment, right?

I know I digressed, I apologize.

trevcanhumanon My Dad and Kurt Cobain

I don't know what to say - yet.

I felt this human's story. Touching indeed. But I feel like this was something that HN wouldn't have liked. This was a nice essay but I'm still unsure how it got to the front page. (( Please comment, why did you upvote ? ))

I honestly expected some kind of connection with the title and the story. But there really wasn't. Okay, yeah they talked about Cobain's death, life but did it actually have anything to do with his dad ?

On another note, I feel the writer. Not having a purpose, that's how I feel right now. One could say that I became slightly HN-popular. Even got several internship offers and I worked for two and a half months. But I barely felt like any of the work I was doing actually served a purpose.

I feel lost, this was a good perspective on life stories. But is this just entertainment or do I get any value from it ? Is this just like Netflix and Prime movies and shows that are so far from my own reality that I'm absorbed into it and I feel like I become a part of it and I aspire to some of their values.

I also like writing, I feel like software engineering programming as a job isn't for me.

edit: spelling.

trevcanhumanon Ask HN: Does your Safari get this bug?

I have tried hard terminating the Safari app. That was only the first time tho, and it didn't work.

Now that I think about it I think I did not try restarting the iPhone altogether.

I guess I'll try finding out what causes it to crash.