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lalunamelon Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

I used HN to find an internship that helped launch my career eight years ago. In my most recent round of job searching, I've used it to find a few great companies as well.

The quality and response rate of the postings on here tends to be quite high, which is a refreshing deviation from the norm.

lalunamelon Colorado districts built up a supply of Chromebooks. Some are nearing their end

Chromebooks reach their “death date” when they are no longer capable of receiving operating system updates. Replacing them straps district budgets and harms the environment.

lalunamelon Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

Thanks a lot! Yeah, my current plan is to create a small static site and put a download link up on there, but I've yet to get the certificates and signing straightened out with apple.

lalunamelon Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

I built a native mac app called FileWatcher. It watches the filesystem for events like read, write, open, mount, stat, etc etc. I wanted to investigate how xcode's build system worked [1] (which relies on `stat` to determine whether or not a file needs to be recompiled) and couldn't find any tool that would do the job.

I was astonished when I couldn't find what I needed - surely this had already been solved by someone else! There are things like inotify and watchman, but they don't provide process information about the events.

I haven't figured out how to distribute it quite yet because the API it uses to collect file system events isn't allowed in apps distributed on the app store. I recently made a short video demo, though[2].

[1] https://blog.codysehl.net/2023/Understanding-the-XCode-Build... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhMWXzoBWY

lalunamelon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)

Location: Denver, CO Remote: Onsite, hybrid, or remote Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Javascript/Typescript, React, Ruby, Rails, iOS, Android, Kotlin, Swift, CI/CD, automated testing Résumé/CV: https://codysehl.net/work/ (about page), https://codysehl.net/static/Resume-CodySehl-33489967d16c3384... (resume) Email: cody.sehl@gmail.com

Hello! I'm a full-stack developer who's worked on web apps, mobile apps, and infrastructure. I'm looking for an opportunity to do my part to advance human flourishing - be that through climate, public service, or science - I want to make a difference. I've worked in domains that most people would think are deadly boring - project management, taxes, finance - but I believe you can find fascinating problems anywhere in the world. I'd love to help you solve yours!