catsarebetter

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Django & React Developer

I'm a full-stack developer specializing in Django on the backend and React on the frontend. I help lean startups and small teams build robust web apps, MVPs, and internal tools — quickly and cleanly.

What I offer:

Fast MVP development and prototyping

Clean REST with Django or DRF

Modern, responsive UIs in React with Tailwind

Integration with Stripe, Auth systems, background jobs (Celery), etc.

Comfortable working solo or embedded in a team

Tech: Python, Django, DRF, React, Next.js, Tailwind, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Docker, AWS, GitHub Actions Location: [Philadelphia, US] | Remote: Yes | Willing to relocate: No Availability: Part-time or short-term contract preferred

Email: catsarebetter98 [(at) ] gmail.com

Let’s build something useful and beautiful. Happy to discuss small one-off projects or longer-term work.

omg and with the new tech around generative AI...

This is shaping up to be a very interesting decade to be in tech.

We might actually be able to generate new sequences and test them against all the diseases to remove them.

We've had tons of layoffs in the past year, I don't think we'll see the effects of them until next year.

That is surprising, I would've thought that TS would have more overhead because of the interfaces adding extra weight. Makes me wonder what else TS could apply to. Language parsing, maybe?

Agreed, even if you sign an NDA, I think that you can realistically communicate that "I was misrepresented the truth" to other employers and they would understand

This is a great article, love the deep breakdown and use of the charts

Hasn't LLM technology mostly made google translate obsolete? Are there still use cases for it?

Struggle with insomnia, as do many many manyy people - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=c....

Will definitely give this a shot, thank you for the great work

This is a pretty interesting idea, especially for companies that have come out of the growth phase and operate as more or less open source projects.

I suppose that the need for this comes out of the fact that.. we've written a ton of code that needs to be maintained at this point. It's not interesting work, but it's busy work that's still important.

Super cool!

Sorry to hear about that, hope you get better.

Here's a hot take I heard from a CEO coach last year. She thought burnout was the bodies response of saying that you are literally going to die if you keep working

w3 schools was a good resource, but to me it often feels like fluff.

This is the first post I've read about ADHD that makes me think that there are multi-dimensional qualities and that the general public treats ADHD as a binary yes/no. Very interesting and great self-awareness too.

He better stay the hell away from OpenAI, we like them

This is dope. I wonder if you can automate a lot of the web scraping online using this UI

It's worse now, I remember reading some data that showed that buying houses are crazy bad investments now

Yes agreed audio would be awesome

That is wild, wonder if there's an asmr for it

completely fair, fintech is a beast that requires a lot of blood sweat and tears

This is dope, I think the benchmarks of speed for python marks it way slower than C++, JS.

If this could be used in mainstream web dev with the level of speed detailed, python might eat Javascript's lunch.

*bias - python obsessed

Have you tried niching down on a tech stack, an industry, or even the types of teams you want to work on? It's a good way to stand out from the crowd. You might have to turn away more recruiter screens, but it gives you a much stronger profile against everyone else with the companies you have strong fit in.

100% tons of DL/ML researchers use Jupyter. I think the problem that most have is deploying the apps in prod.

There's a school of thought presented in David Chang's documentary where we're going to be one of the last generations to consume wild bluefin tuna. Because we've industrialized fishing them at this point.

The financial incentives are too powerful to turn down, each one can come in at $20 to $5,000 Per Pound. A single tuna is tens of thousand, if not hundreds of thousands on the market.

On the consumer side (CA/NY) anything Ahi Tuna-related is going to fly off the shelf, even with premium mark up prices.

I'm not sure where we go from here. Maybe a shift in community values? It's trending higher and higher online too, which probably correlates with consumption - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=a...

I used to rely on StackOverflow to stay plugged in to the developer world. But now with newsletters, developer influencers, and more forums with code block formatting, it's just not necessary anymore. I think the status of having stackoverflow points has been translated to twitter followers.

Is there a way to add terms of service to the json feed? Effectively it's a firehose GET command and that's tricky to open up publicly without some kind of checks and balances: rate limiting, docs, TOS, etc.

I think it's very possible that Elon is doing whatever he feels like it. X.com used to be his old company that merged with paypal.

The Occam's Razor is that he just likes the name X.com.

I mean he's still a weirdo but he probably isn't putting much thought into any of this.

Agreed, any kind of error message is better than nothing. Makes my code calling the API really hard to read and debug

That is a scary amount of honesty, but for a good cause this time so good on them

Could you explain a bit more? I don't have kids so I'm interested to learn more.