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Professional saviors of failed software projects and failing legacy software.

Our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

https://constellationtrust.org

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ctrust··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
Location: U.S.A.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but we'll meet in person.

Technologies: React/Vue, WordPress, Django (incl. Python for data science generally), Rust.

We offer top-rate web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of legacy web systems, especially WordPress ecom storefronts, that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org. You're guaranteed to get a reply from our principal—me—within a few hours.

Realistically, you can think of him as a fractional CTO. He has survived, thrived, and delivered in profoundly dysfunctional environments.

ctrust··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
Location: U.S.A.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but we'll meet in person.

Technologies: React/Vue, WordPress, Django (incl. Python for data science generally), Rust.

We offer top-rate web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of legacy web systems, especially WordPress ecom storefronts, that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org. You're guaranteed to get a reply from our principal—me—within a few hours.

Realistically, you can think of him as a fractional CTO. He has survived, thrived, and delivered in profoundly dysfunctional environments.

ctrust··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2026)
SEEKING WORK

Location: U.S.A.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but we'll meet in person.

Technologies: React/Vue, WordPress, Django (incl. Python for data science generally), Rust.

We offer top-rate web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of legacy web systems, especially WordPress ecom storefronts, that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org. You're guaranteed to get a reply from our principal—me—within a few hours.

Realistically, you can think of him as a fractional CTO. He has survived, thrived, and delivered in profoundly dysfunctional environments.

ctrust··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2026)
Location: U.S.A.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but we'll meet in person.

Technologies: React/Vue, WordPress, Django (incl. Python for data science generally), Rust.

We offer top-rate web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of legacy web systems, especially WordPress ecom storefronts, that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org. You're guaranteed to get a reply from our principal—me—within a few hours.

Realistically, you can think of him as a fractional CTO. He has survived, thrived, and delivered in profoundly dysfunctional environments.

ctrust··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
Location: U.S.A.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but we'll meet in person. Technologies: React/Vue, WordPress, Django (incl. Python for data science generally), Rust.

We offer top-rate web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of legacy web systems, especially WordPress ecom storefronts, that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org. You're guaranteed to get a reply from our principal—me—within a few hours.

ctrust··on Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
If I could give an LLM to any historical figure, I would give it to Nietzsche.
ctrust··on Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
The accurate inferences that can be drawn from subtle linguistic attributes should freak you out more than they do.
ctrust··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
Location: U.S.A.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but we'll meet in person.

Technologies: React/Vue, WordPress, Django (incl. Python for data science generally), Rust.

We offer top-rate web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of legacy web systems, especially WordPress ecom storefronts, that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org. You're guaranteed to get a reply from our principal—me—within a few hours.

ctrust··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2026)
SEEKING WORK | U.S.A. | Remote

We offer top-rate React/Vue web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of old WordPress systems that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org.

ctrust··on Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust
Very interesting. Roughly speaking, how does performance compare to SQLite?
ctrust··on Time to start de-Appling
What's the catch?
ctrust··on Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation
It isn't too late!
ctrust··on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
From the artichokel: "If bills are a fiction in order to back up the fiction of charity so the hospital can write off accounts and look like they are somehow doing right by people, this is an effed system."

So close, yet so, so far! If a corporation commits fraud against you, and you literally ask if the corporation has committed fraud against you, and you proceed to voluntarily send that corporation THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS anyway, are you not a willing co-conspirator in the fraud?

ctrust··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2025)
SEEKING WORK | U.S.A. | Remote

We offer top-rate React/Vue web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of old WordPress systems that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org.

ctrust··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2024)
SEEKING WORK | U.S.A. | Remote

Constellation Trust is our name, and saving you from slow-motion software catastrophes is our game.

We are professional saviors of slowly (or quickly) failing legacy software, especially in the e-commerce space.

Online storefronts can be excruciating. We understand what it’s like to struggle with SEO and janky plugins and shopping-cart abandonment and inventory management. Let us take your pain away.

Our secret sauce is that we genuinely care. (Trust us: we're here for you.)

https://constellationtrust.org

P.S. It doesn’t usually make sense to retain us until you’re in the ballpark of about a million dollars’ worth of revenue annually.

ctrust··on Ask HN: What is replacing SEO for discoverability?
Exactly right. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
ctrust··on Ask HN: What is replacing SEO for discoverability?
Trade conferences. (Trade conferences will outlast all digital media.)
ctrust··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2024)
SEEKING WORK | U.S.A. | Remote

Constellation Trust is our name, and saving you from others' slow-motion catastrophes is our game.

We are professional saviors of failed software projects and failing legacy software, especially in the e-commerce space.

Our secret sauce is that we genuinely care. (Trust us: we're here for you.)

https://constellationtrust.org

ctrust··on X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
A similar refusal is observed on Mobile Safari.
ctrust··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2024)
SEEKING WORK | U.S.A. | Remote

Constellation Trust is our name, and saving you from others' slow-motion catastrophes is our game.

We are professional saviors of failed software projects and failing legacy software.

Our secret sauce is that we genuinely care. (Trust us: we're here for you.)

https://constellationtrust.org