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Contact: sebastian.goettschkes@googlemail.com
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Sgoettschkes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)
ApoVerlag | (Frontend) Software Developer | ONSITE (Vienna, Austria) | Full-Time

ApoVerlag is a publishing house going digital. We support health care professionals (doctors, pharmacists) as well as pharmacies and hospitals in their day-to-day jobs with software systems and apps.

We are looking for a Software Developer working in Typescript/React. Our software stack includes Elixir/Phoenix in the backend, Dart/Flutter for our apps, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS.

Please check our job ad for more information: https://www.karriere.at/jobs/5819644

Sgoettschkes··on Why prod is down
No one ever got fired for doing backups. It's "industry standard" so if you don't do it, you'll be out of your job faster than the server which went down. Backups being actually restorable in a reasonable amount of time isn't "industry standard", so nobody cares.
Sgoettschkes··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2017)

  Location: Vienna, Austria
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: Clojure, Clojurescript, Python, PHP
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sgoettschkes/
  Email: sebastian dot goettschkes at googlemail dot com
I consider myself a fullstack developer with a focus on backend. I spent the last 2 years working with Python/JS/Dart and Clojure/Clojurescript at blossom (3-person, fully remote team). I am currently looking into either joining another small team full-time (Vienna/remote) or contracting.
Sgoettschkes··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2017)
SEEKING WORK - Vienna / Austria - Remote possible

I'M a web developer working with Python, Dart, PHP and Javascript. I am also working on 2 Clojure projects (with Clojurescript). I have experience using MySQL, PostgreSQL, Google Datastore, MongoDB and redis as databases.

Full bio + contact: http://agileaddicts.com/

I do have about 12h/week available right now.

Sgoettschkes··on Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and return to Windows
I'm German (born, raised and lived in Munich) and I do not associate "Läuft wie geschmiert" with bribe. To me it has only one meaning, which is "running smoothly". In this context I'd guess the person said that Linux runs smoothly and from a technical point of view there is no reason to switch to Windows.
Sgoettschkes··on Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consistently blows them away?
I'm not sure that this blows the client away tbh. I had much more success with being critical but within reason. If a client suggests a feature I do not believe will work or is not worth the time, my approach is to agree that this is technically possible and it will take X amount of time with Y drawbacks (e.g. harder to maintain in the future, manual effort later on). And then I'll tell them my opinion about it from a business perspective. I don't push in any direction and make it clear that if this is what they want, I'll get to work right away.

But then again, I only work with clients who appreciate feedback and don't think of me as a person turning coffee into code ;)

Sgoettschkes··on Show HN: World class unlimited email hosting for all your domains from $4/month
It makes all the other pages look like pure marketing slang. So instead of counting domains or gigabytes, they count outgoing emails. How is this "radically different"?
Sgoettschkes··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2016)
SEEKING WORK - Vienna, Austria - Remote preferred - no traveling

10 years+ of shipping software (PHP, Python, Javascript, Dart). I have worked with multiple databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Google Datastore) and on different Cloud providers (AWS; Google App Engine; DigitalOcean).

In the past, I've worked as both a solo developer implementing and improving software applications as well as supporting a team of developers finishing their application. I have a strong focus on clean code and automated tests and work with two companies helping them improve their code quality.

Website: http://agileaddicts.com Email: sebastian@agileaddicts.com

Sgoettschkes··on The Serverless Start-Up – Down with Servers
If you are running on Heroku or Google App Engine, you don't have a server as well. AWS Lambda abstracts the concept of a server even more, but yeah...

I also think the costs are pretty high. Of course I have no idea how much traffic and requests where calculated, so I am just guessing. As cloudfront and S3 do the heavy lifting, a cheap server or two for actual editing of the content should be enough. And they don't need to scale on the same level as there won't be that much changing for customers, so paying more than 10,000$ for that with 100.000 customers seems pretty high.

But I get what the idea behind it was, and it seems to work pretty good. Also nice to have really low costs in the beginning :)

Sgoettschkes··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2015)
SEEKING WORK

    Location: Vienna, Austria
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: PHP, Python, JS, Dart
Currently working 60% of my time for blossom.co (remote) as Python/Dart engineer (+ Google App Engine, some Backbone.js), about 20% for another company (locally) as support for lone Junior PHP dev (code reviews, emergencies).

Looking to fill the remaining 20%.

Sgoettschkes··on Ask HN: What are your hobbies, and why are they cool?
Juggling: It's awesome because there is a vibrant community pushing the limits of what's possible. There are so many different things to juggling (balls, clubs, rings - But also devilsticks, pois, diablos, yoyos, ...) and you can always learn something new. It's also pretty easy to start and you can learn new tricks fairly regulary, so (at least in my experience) you don't hit a wall that often. One very cool thing is that you can get started with 3 tennis balls or other objects and, if you think it's worth it, migrate easily to "real" juggling balls and other things that cost more.
Sgoettschkes··on Underwater Street View, now at a Loch Ness near you
This scares me!
Sgoettschkes··on Ansible 1.9.0 Released
You can always use ansible ad-hoc tasks for this. There is the `raw` module which doesn't use python and just executes code.
Sgoettschkes··on Ansible 1.9.0 Released
Strange, I have the exact opposite experience. I am running devel and update every half month or so and it usually just works.
Sgoettschkes··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2015)
Location: Vienna / Austria

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Main stack: PHP (symfony), Javascript, CSS (Sass), MySQL, MongoDB, Vagrant, ansible, git; Other technology I played with: Python, nodejs, Haskell, bash, Go, Rust, Ruby, ElasticSearch; Platforms: Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean, Codeship, github, bitbucket, CloudFlare, BrowserStack, MailChimp

Résumé/CV: https://www.xing.com/profile/Sebastian_Goettschkes

Weekend project: https://cllctr.net | https://github.com/agileaddicts/cllctr

Email: sebastian dot goettschkes at googlemail dot com

I like to build stuff. I like to learn stuff. I like to deliver value.

Sgoettschkes··on Things I still can't do in November 2014
15. Call the police or the fire department or paramedics using an app.

I think this app is called telephone. You use it by typing an identifier of the service you want to reach (e.g. 911) and a call is dispatched.

Sgoettschkes··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2014)
Location: Vienna, Austria

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, Javascript, MySQL, MongoDB, redis, vagrant, ansible, chef, Debian/Ubuntu

Resume: on request and https://github.com/Sgoettschkes

Email: sebastian dot goettschkes at googlemail dot com

I worked as developer through university, co-founded a design startup right after my Master (Development, Infrastructure) and am now working for a spin-off as "technical guy" (mostly project management and product development, little development). Would love to get back to programming (PHP, Javascript/Nodejs, Python, ruby, Java/Scala).

Sgoettschkes··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2014)
Location: Vienna, Austria, Europe

Remote: Yes (done it before, would do again)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Mostly php (symfony2) and Javascript (mostly jQuery but also AngularJs), python, nodejs, haskell, Java; Also DevOps like vagrant and chef; Databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB

Resume: Master in Information Systems and Management, worked as Java Developer while studying, Co-foundet design startup in Munich and was CTO/Lead Developer, joined startup in Vienna as Technical Project Lead. A detailed resume can be found on XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Sebastian_Goettschkes

Email: sebastian.goettschkes@googlemail.com

Sgoettschkes··on Ask HN: What did I do so wrong in this coding interview
Regarding 1. As far as I know, npm says in it's docs you should add node_modules to your scm because there is no way to install the exact same version through npm on different machines. On the other hand, composer has a .lock file which specifies commit hashes it installed on the dev machine, so a composer install installs the exact same commit on every machine.

@OP: You didn't commit the composer.lock. That means that your code might run locally but breaks on another machine because there might be a new version of laravel 4.2

Sgoettschkes··on We put $200k into a site that sucks. Please destroy us with your criticism
It's 2014, isn't it? Damned!
Sgoettschkes··on Boy, 9, creates library in his front yard. City, stupid, shuts it down.
America, land of the free... Just wow!

I'm living in Vienna and these things are common here. We have local stores having a "take something, leave somthing" shelf. We even have a few "cupboards" installed by the city at public places installed for this kind of book exchange.

Sgoettschkes··on Vagrant 1.6 is available, including Windows guests
2 weeks to late?
Sgoettschkes··on Vagrant 1.6 has been released
I could not live without vagrant anymore. Developing inside vm, having a linux env on my windows machine, testing stuff, testing ansible/chef setups with a testing vm... It's so easy :)
Sgoettschkes··on Poll: How do you manage your passwords?
Pass looks good! The only thing missing for me is a way to use it on iPhone/Android. I currently use KeePassX and it works pretty well with Dropbox sync.
Sgoettschkes··on Project Euler
Learning haskell with ProjectEuler right now. It's great and after solving it, one can always look up the forums and improve the own code or learn different ways to implement the solution!
Sgoettschkes··on Uber driver hits, kills 6 yr. old. Is “Not our problem” an appropriate response?
I really don't get it. Is the car company responding because it was their vehicle? Is the street costruction company issuing statements because it was their street? Is the driving instructor giving condolences because it was his training? Nobody other than the driver is responsible for this! It's terrible and sad, but this stuff happens.
Sgoettschkes··on DIY Cyborg - man implants chip into his arm
Love this! Have an magnetic implant on my own and it's totally exciting where these guys are taking BodyMod! Awesome!
Sgoettschkes··on Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users
I looked up your page (I'm a web developer, interested in testing, using zombiejs right now), and there are two things. First: Way to much text. Second: I don't care what you use as an underlying software stack. Tell me that you parse the whole page, executing js and everything, and get the result back to me. Thats your message. And then add some text somewhere to tell me that I can write phantom.js tests which are executed against the page.

What I really don't know is why I need a phantomjs web worker. I mean if I am that deep into testing, I have a CI which does this for me. No need to add another external service to the stack. I'm also worried that 1000 requests for $29 are a little much? I don't know about phantomjs, but zombiejs was installed in way under a minute (using npm). So while you are saving me a few minutes for installing phantom.js (doesn't look like rocket science to me), you are taking my time for integrating your API and you are charging me?

I think by refining your messages and thinking about what exactly it is you are selling you might have a decent service there.

Sgoettschkes··on Ask HN: how do you stage/push your code?
At work, we have different workflows from rsync and ssh into the machine, running a build script to git pull. For my pet project, I work with git push to the production server. Works pretty well with git post-recieve hook and phing (ant for php) targets to update dependencies (through composer) and doing some health checks.
Sgoettschkes··on Am I a cyborg now?
You can feel both. For me static fields are a very strange feeling which is not very comfortable. Having only one small magnet (the second generation ones from Steve Haworth) I have to concentrate to feel a low static magnetic field.

Changing ones are more obvious and way more comfy. I think this is because a static one pulls or pushes the magnet all the time while changing ones let the magnet "vibrate" (from pulling and pushing all the time).

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