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bigbassroller··on Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now?
Sorry, the correct answer is Forward Deployed Engineer, your job now is to move the slop forward to the customer
bigbassroller··on Agentic terminology doesn't make any sense
I agree with your sentiment, but maybe you can think of an action as a trigger that activates a tool? Like a “click” action triggers the “CRM” tool.
bigbassroller··on Ask HN: Did GitHub UI become unbearably slow?
Did you add node_modules to your repo by chance?
bigbassroller··on Ask HN: AWS Lambda Credible Alternatives?
Skip the UI and use Terraform
bigbassroller··on Ask HN: How do I save my content from AI crawlers?
Check logs for the AI user agent?
bigbassroller··on Tell HN: your next idea should focus on aged care
Just brand a bidit with a lifting mechanisms
bigbassroller··on Ask HN: What are your must-listen weekly podcasts?
- Shop Talk Show. Chris Coyier is my idol - Syntax. Been watching less since they no longer have the catchy intro song. - Thinking Elixir. Dislike the intro but love Elixir. - JS Party, Changelog. By far the best intro songs and sound affects.

Yea, I am web developer who can’t get enough, and heavily like catchy intros

bigbassroller··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024)
Do you not want people to contact you easily? Putting your LinkedIn would make it much easier to contact regarding hiring you.
bigbassroller··on Ask HN: With all the layoffs – how are you?
I've been wanting to say this: Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Don't have experience? Go on Upwork or Craiglist and grab any job you can. Here's a tip: learn about your competition. Once you do, offer your services for $5 less. This shows you're eager and it's a better strategy than endlessly submitting applications without response. Take any job, excel at it, earn that 5-star review, and build your reputation. Remember, the 'hot hand' has the advantage. Picture yourself as a day laborer outside a U-Haul, ready to say 'I can do it!' first. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. GET HOT ROOKIE!
bigbassroller··on BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4
I know this tech is terrifying to actual 3D artist who don’t want be a “prompt engineer”, but as someone who has never used Blender, I think its cool that I can create something using tools like this and use them in my projects, ex background animation on a website hero section.
bigbassroller··on ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business
Because he didn’t have any class!
bigbassroller··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2022)
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Sure

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JS, React, WordPress, Gutenberg Blocks, Elixir, LiveView, Tailwind CSS, AWS, Linux

Résumé/CV: shorturl.at/ns016

Email: mchavez {atsymbol} space-rocket.com

I like to do fullstack development starting from the frontend working directly with designers, all the way to the backend, including dev ops.

bigbassroller··on Ask HN: How do people working remotely prevent interruptions from family?
I split my bedroom with a curtain and big dry erase board. I call it the reverse mullet of bedrooms, party up front, business in the back…
bigbassroller··on Is Pluto a Planet? What’s a Planet, Anyway?
I’m Eris, and there is no stranger orbit than this, ‘cuz we Bend the rules where I’m at in the Scattered Disc I’ve been hearing some confusion in the past: Pluto may be bigger, but I got more mass
bigbassroller··on Is Pluto a Planet? What’s a Planet, Anyway?
Let’s have a talk, Pluto. We know you’ve been feeling blue They changed your class, so you go blame it on the IAU Now you’re a dwarf planet, and you’re not thrilled, it’s plain to see But if you look at what makes a planet great The dwarves have two out of three:

1 You orbit a star, and your star is called the sun 2 You have enough gravity to make you round, but you’re missing one: 3 Do you clear your surroundings? Dwarf planets don’t clear their neighborhood They don’t have enough mass, but join the class If you don’t know their names, you should

Ceres Makemake Haumea Eris Pluto

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws3kWuMi0Y8

bigbassroller··on Ask HN: Dealing with wrist pain / tendonitis as a developer
Try adjusting height of your desk and seating position.
bigbassroller··on Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)
They had this in SF via The Baby Box Co, but sadly they seem to be no longer around. It was nice having a nice colorful happy box to keep new born in. Here is an article about what it was https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/baby-box-co-launche...
bigbassroller··on I was stuck on a side project for 5 years – how I finished it (2020)
Hey thats a nice looking shed!
bigbassroller··on Ask HN: Do you have some well written resources on how to learn K8s as a dev?
Yea was debating between that and the DevOps cert from AWS. Choose DevOps because it covers some of the same concepts and more. Also just passed the AWS Developer Associate, so warmed up. Using Tutorial Dojo… Highly recommended! CKAD course on Udemy looks good too and have heard good things from friends. Good luck on your journey!
bigbassroller··on Ask HN: Do you have some well written resources on how to learn K8s as a dev?
After being self thought how to code through books and hands on projects, I have discovered an even better way to learn and get credentials in that field at the same time and that is through certifications. For example AWS Devops cert, the GCP equivalent and CNF Kubernetes cert.
bigbassroller··on Terraforming: Why the Moon is a better target than Mars
Doesn’t anybody worry about the consequences of mining the moon? https://youtu.be/odrgDzciG6s
bigbassroller··on What do I need to read to be a CSS dev?
Just build websites!
bigbassroller··on Dead-End SF Street Plagued with Confused Waymo Cars Trying to Turn Around
I live in this neighborhood and the Waymo cars drive into the early morning and are becoming as common as Priuses. The street in question leads to The Presidio, which is federal park, has been closed to cars during the pandemic, and probably whats confusing the Waymo cars.
bigbassroller··on Ask HN: Best modern web WYSIWYG editor?
TinyMCE is what Ive been using. Its what WordPress uses too.
bigbassroller··on Dubai is making its own fake rain to beat 122°F heat
The amazon rain forest relies on minerals blown from dust storms in the Sahara desert, so therefore terraforming the Sahara would have a negative effect on the amazon. Source https://youtu.be/2hmAeLYMrQg
bigbassroller··on Aliens Wouldn't Need Warp Drives to Take over Entire Galaxy, Simulation Suggests
10,000 years is not a large amount time for the Milky Way, but a very long time for a civilization. In that amount of time, humanity could find its self in another dark ages. Would they still be in contact with the people who colonized another star after that amount of time, even if society collapsed into a dark age? If the two groups were no longer in contact, would they still be considered the same civilization? Also isn’t the galactic core a very dangerous place for leaving things because of density of stars and frequent solar flares? From what I know, life is more likely to survive in the galactic arms, where there is less density of stars and thus less solar flares to wipe out all living things.
bigbassroller··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021)
Location: San Francisco

Education: Self taught

Remote: Yes and can meet in person in SF Bay Area

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Elixir, Next.js, WordPress, AWS, GCP

Résumé/CV: https://resume.space-rocket.com/

Email: mchavez@space-rocket.com

github: https://github.com/bigbassroller

Pronouns Space-Rocket | Big Bass Roller

Interested in working with Elixir full time FTW!

bigbassroller··on Ask HN: Is Elixir Still Relevant?
I have wondered this too. I think it is still relevant, but very niche. Many companies are using Elixir and striving against their competitors, see Mux. IMO the reason libraries aren’t updated often is because Elixir is a completed language with no breaking updates planned [0], so libraries can be created and not need constant breaking updates. Also, you can do many things without using libraries because of Elixir’s and Erlang’s standard libraries and features. As an Elixir developer, I never go to Awesome Elixir to search for libraries. Its recommended to first look at Elixir docs, Erlang docs, Hex package manager or if still no solution found or have questions go to the Elixir Forum or Stackoverflow.

[0]: https://youtu.be/oUZC1s1N42Q

PS: Elixir is f’n awesome!

bigbassroller··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2021)
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: SF Only

Technologies: Elixir/Phoenix, WordPress, React, Vue, Angular, Linux, Nginx, Docker, AWS, GCP, DO

Résumé/CV: resume.space-rocket.com

Email: mchavez@space-rocket.com

bigbassroller··on Ask HN: Best Tech Stack for portfolio website
After building my site in multiple stacks, I’ve come back to WordPress because my portfolio site is also my self marketing site and WordPress is the best for marketing IMO. You get blog post, pages, menus and contact forms. Add advanced custom fields and custom post types and WPGraphQL and some Next.js and you got yourself a JAMStack with complete “no-code” backend.
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