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gruon Ask HN: Alternatives to DuckDuckGo and Firefox?

I switched to it from chrome and never looked back. Tons of good features, really customizable, and (what seems like) a pretty sound business model (no crypto!)

gruon Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

https://github.com/grdl/git-get - for cloning, managing and organizing git repos. Inspired by the folder structure created by "go get".

gruon Ask HN: Show me the sexy, sexy home page of your favorite free CLI project

Python Poetry [1] is very sexy.

Oh, and Starship prompt [2] too.

[1] https://python-poetry.org/

[2] https://starship.rs/

gruon Production-Oriented Development

No mature organisation would expect engineers to be on-call continuously, 24/7. There are ways to have a sane, balanced approach to on-call. See the SRE book for one example: https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/being-on-ca...

gruon Show HN: Switch Git Users CLI

This is the approach that works very well for me. Especially since I keep my repos cloned into a directory structure inspired by "go get" using https://github.com/grdl/git-get

gruon Ask HN: Examples of good technical design docs

Thanks, I'm familiar with the link you posted. You're also right that there's plenty of online resources about writing technical design docs.

However, what I'm looking for are not the articles about writing technical design but the actual design documents. Preferably ones that are considered well written by the community.

gruon Using Askgit – A SQL interface to your Git repository

libgit2[0] has a comprehensive API and bindings for dozens of languages.

I also like go-git[1] - a pure Go implementation with idiomatic Go API and cool features like in-memory filesystem.

[0] https://libgit2.org/

[1] https://github.com/go-git/go-git

gruon Take Gitlab to the command line with GLab, an open-source Gitlab CLI tool

You're not missing anything. It does use GitLab's mirroring API. However, GitLab doesn't have any global mirroring settings, you need to set up each repo individually. The tool just saves you a huge bunch of clicking around and copy pasting auth tokens. Useful if you have a big collection of repos you'd like to mirror. And if you'd like every new public repo to be mirrored automatically.

gruon Take Gitlab to the command line with GLab, an open-source Gitlab CLI tool

I have created a small tool that automatically mirrors public repos from GitLab to GitHub: https://github.com/grdl/gitlab-mirror-maker

Meaning, a repo can be hosted on GL but still benefit from better exposure and disoverability of GH.

gruon What I learned from doing over 60 technical interviews in 30 days

Can you share advice or recommend any resources on how to improve one's writing? Especially with regards to technical writing and communication in remote organizations.

gruon Ask HN: C++ Dev Jobs Are Rare, Aren't They?

Try HFT companies. I live in Amsterdam, we have a bunch of them here and I used to work for couple of them. Their business is extremely low latency so they live and breathe C++ (and also stuff like FPGAs).

But this is somewhat a niche indeed.

gruon Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

Android OS on my Philips smart TV.

gruon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)

I'm a versatile software engineer and co-founder with 14 years of experience. Specializing in DevOps, Cloud-Native solutions and Site Reliability Engineering. Always working hard towards automating myself out of a job :)

    Location: Amsterdam, NL
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies:
     * Go, Python, Typescript (Angular), Java
     * Kubernetes
     * Kafka
     * Prometheus, Elastic Stack, Grafana
     * Ansible, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform
     * CI/CD pipelines, Microservices

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gdlugoszewski/

Email: hn@grdl.dev

gruon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2020)

  Location: Amsterdam, NL
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies:
   * Go, Python, Typescript (Angular), Java
   * Kubernetes
   * Kafka
   * Prometheus, Elastic Stack, Grafana
   * Ansible, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform
   * CI/CD pipelines, Microservices

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gdlugoszewski/

Email: hn@grdl.dev

gruon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2020)

  Location: Amsterdam, NL
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies:
   * Go, Python, Typescript (Angular)
   * Kubernetes
   * Kafka
   * Prometheus, Elastic Stack, Grafana
   * Ansible, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform
   * CI/CD pipelines, Microservices

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gdlugoszewski/

Email: hn@grdl.dev

gruon Ask HN: Smallest laptop that is decent for coding?

Windows 10 with Ubuntu 18.04 on VirtualBox

gruon Ask HN: Smallest laptop that is decent for coding?

I love my ASUS ZenBook 13!

  * The best laptop keyboard I've ever typed on!
  * Great screen
  * Weights 1 kg
  * Solid 8 hours of work on battery

gruon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired right now?

A versatile software engineer and co-founder, with strong development skills and 14 years of experience. Specializing in DevOps, Cloud-Native solutions and Site Reliability Engineering. Always working hard towards automating myself out of a job :)

    Location: Amsterdam, NL
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies:
     * Go, Python, Typescript (Angular)
     * Kubernetes
     * Kafka
     * Prometheus, Elastic Stack, Grafana
     * Ansible, Terraform, Linux infrastructure
     * Google Cloud Platform
     * CI/CD pipelines, microservices

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gdlugoszewski

Email: g.dlugoszewski+hn@gmail.com