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mountaineeron Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (February 2025)

Yeah, I found the percentage of job posts with the keyword in https://www.hntrends.com when I was publishing it, was effective.

mountaineeron Software Folklore

previous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005140

mountaineeron Show HN: Bring phone calls into the browser (SIP-to-WebRTC)

> Lastly, we’ve decided to end-of-life (EOL) Twilio Programmable Video as a standalone product. Given it’s such a niche area and a relatively small part of our portfolio, we believe partnering with video industry leaders is the best way to ensure long-term product innovation for our customers. Removing Programmable Video from our portfolio will also allow Communications to more effectively focus on our pillar products - Messaging, Voice, and Email.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1447669/000119312523...

mentioned in https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/04/twilio-layoffs-company-to-cu...

mountaineeron Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says

For the "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" monthly trends, the data shows similar trends. [1]

* Remote positions have been consistently 60%+ this year

* Onsite peaked at about 23%.

* Hybrid peaked at 15%.

[1] https://www.hntrends.com/2023/november.html?compare=Remote&c...

mountaineeron Advent of Code 2023's new AI/LLM Policy

Agreed, that was the sentiment I was aiming for, separating the competition aspect from the getting better at programming aspect. The policy with respect to competition seems fine. The follow-on in parens to the policy was the part I was referring to:

> (If you want to use AI to help you solve puzzles, I can't really stop you, but I feel like it's harder to get better at programming if you ask an AI to do the programming for you.)

mountaineeron Advent of Code 2023's new AI/LLM Policy

Right, the policy seemed fine to me until it got to this part. AI can be a way to get better at programming too. When I was learning Elixir, I watched José Valim work through the AoC puzzles[0] and followed along, typing in what José had and then working to understand it. José was doing the programming but it helped me get better at programming I think.

[0] https://www.twitch.tv/collections/YDM6eKu6bhV1Nw

mountaineeron Rails 7.1 Released

A friend of mine joked a couple weeks ago that if a Rails release is announced but I hadn't submitted a PR (to upgrade), has it really happened?

Well, here we go, PR coming up. Even if it has to stack behind the 7.0 one that's been sitting there for months.

mountaineeron Executive Function Theft

This hits home as I sit here submitting FSA receipts tonight.

mountaineeron Things I wish I’d known before fulltime RVing (2017)

Campnab is a must have for the RVers/campsers I know. https://campnab.com/

mountaineeron Agile soccer skills for a bipedal robot with deep reinforcement learning

Looks like the same team that was shown on 60 Minutes the other week?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-artificial-intelligence-...

mountaineeron I bought back my acquihired startup

This is great, I love to see these work out. This type of re-acquisition can be difficult to see through to completion. The acquiring company has moved on and doesn't want to spend resources on dealing with it. I had tried to do this too at one point but then then newish CEO of the company we were trying to buy it back from was gone and we sorta gave up.

mountaineeron “Who is hiring?” job postings continue to lag

November follow-up to October's discussion[0]

October ended with 491

November has 555

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33083279

mountaineeron Web automation: Don't use Selenium, use Playwright

> The Puppeteer team essentially moved from Google to Microsoft and became the Playwright team.

https://blog.logrocket.com/playwright-vs-puppeteer/

mountaineeron Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

Leading indicator of the (overall) tech job market is a better way to put it. The job postings in The Who Is Hiring? threads are a small sliver of the overall industry.

mountaineeron Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

I believe the intent is to share as a possible leading indicator. I don't know the OP's exact reasoning, but I have tracked this data for years at hntrends.com and it was my original thesis that this thread is a leading indicator of the tech job market at a minimum.

mountaineeron Pronunciation Guide for Unix

Where is the pronunciation guide for daemon?

mountaineeron Twenty years of my blog

Thank you Simon, truly an incredible job creating, learning, and sharing with the world. Definitely one of my biggest inspirations as nearly every day there is a new discovery in the feed or on twitter.

mountaineeron Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time

Had a similar thought a few years ago and added a total posts chart to go along with the technology trends, https://www.hntrends.com/2022/may.html

Looks like you have June 2021 as the all time high as well. Doesn't look like June 2022 is going to get even close, which makes sense based on current freezes/layoffs.

mountaineeron Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time

I run https://www.hntrends.com on a $5/month box and never had a problem with spikes. Generated, static resources all the way.

mountaineeron Show HN: Find the 10 highest and 10 lowest correlations to any stock

FYI, the link in the copyright/footer is broken.

mountaineeron Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021

I suddenly have "All the way to Tacoma" stuck in my head.

mountaineeron Some thoughts on writing

For some context, the likely reason that this is on the front page is that most of his essays, which are many, do very well on HN[1]. If you consider that body of work, this may be a more interesting insight into writing to explore.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=danluu.com

mountaineeron Hacking Hacker News for Fun and Profit – Part 1

I don't believe that BigQuery dataset is actively updated?

mountaineeron Percentage of Hacker News job postings that mention a remote option 2017-2021

cool to see others using this data, I've been tracking this trend and more over at https://www.hntrends.com/2021/july.html

mountaineeron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)

TeamSnap | Multiple Positions | REMOTE | https://www.teamsnap.com

TeamSnap is hiring for multiple positions to join our remote-first team. We work every day to simplify the lives of players, coaches, parents, and sports organizations by taking the headache out of organizing sports.

Engineers at TeamSnap are critical to technical and product innovation, driving projects like the award-winning HealthCheck feature. We build applications and services with Ruby, Elixir, React, TypeSript, Swift, Kotlin, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, Firebase, and Google Cloud. On the Full Stack side, “T-shaped” developers are encouraged.

Our engineers and engineering managers tell their stories ->

* https://www.builtincolorado.com/2021/03/24/colorado-engineer...

* https://www.teamsnap.com/blog/teamsnap-culture/teamsnappers-...

* https://www.teamsnap.com/blog/company/teamsnappers-manager-h...

We are looking at doubling our team by end-of-year and are hiring for: Android, Staff SRE, QA Manager, and a number of other roles.

See all positions here -> https://jobs.lever.co/teamsnap

mountaineeron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)

TeamSnap | Multiple Positions | REMOTE | https://www.teamsnap.com

TeamSnap is hiring for multiple positions to join our remote-first team. We work every day to simplify the lives of players, coaches, parents, and sports organizations by taking the headache out of organizing sports.

Engineers at TeamSnap are critical to technical and product innovation, driving projects like the award-winning HealthCheck feature. We build applications and services with Ruby, Elixir, React, TypeSript, Swift, Kotlin, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, Firebase, and Google Cloud. On the Full Stack side, “T-shaped” developers are encouraged.

Our engineers and engineering managers tell their stories ->

* https://www.builtincolorado.com/2021/03/24/colorado-engineer...

* https://www.teamsnap.com/blog/teamsnap-culture/teamsnappers-...

* https://www.teamsnap.com/blog/company/teamsnappers-manager-h...

We are looking at doubling our team by end-of-year and are hiring for: Android, Full-Stack, SRE, and a number of other roles.

See all positions here -> https://jobs.lever.co/teamsnap

mountaineeron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)

TeamSnap | Multiple Positions | REMOTE | https://www.teamsnap.com

TeamSnap is hiring for multiple positions to join our remote-first team. We work every day to simplify the lives of players, coaches, parents, and sports organizations by taking the headache out of organizing sports.

Engineers at TeamSnap are critical to technical and product innovation, driving projects like the award-winning HealthCheck feature. We build applications and services with Ruby, Elixir, React, TypeSript, Swift, Kotlin, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, Firebase, and Google Cloud. On the Full Stack side, “T-shaped” developers are encouraged.

Our engineers and engineering managers tell their stories ->

* https://www.builtincolorado.com/2021/03/24/colorado-engineer...

* https://www.teamsnap.com/blog/teamsnap-culture/teamsnappers-...

* https://www.teamsnap.com/blog/company/teamsnappers-manager-h...

We are looking at doubling our team by end-of-year and are hiring Engineers and Leaders for pretty much everything: Mobile, Front-end, Back-end, SRE, QA, and Security.

See all positions here -> https://jobs.lever.co/teamsnap

mountaineeron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)

TeamSnap | Multiple Positions | REMOTE | https://www.teamsnap.com

TeamSnap is hiring for multiple positions to join our remote-first team. We work every day to simplify the lives of players, coaches, parents, and sports organizations by taking the headache out of organizing sports.

Engineers at TeamSnap are critical to technical and product innovation, driving projects like the award-winning HealthCheck feature. We have a collaborative, ownership and quality-driven engineering culture and work in fully distributed teams communicating directly in pair sessions, virtual team swarms, and asynchronously. We build applications and services with Ruby, Elixir, React, TypeSript, Swift, Kotlin, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, Firebase, and Google Cloud. On the Full Stack side, “T-shaped” developers are encouraged.

TeamSnap just announced a strategic partnership with Waud Capital to fuel growth and expansion - https://www.teamsnap.com/blog/announcements/teamsnap-partner...

We are hiring Engineers and Leaders for pretty much everything: Mobile, Front-end, Back-end, SRE, QA, and Security.

See all positions here -> https://jobs.lever.co/teamsnap

mountaineeron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)

TeamSnap | Multiple Positions | REMOTE | https://www.teamsnap.com

TeamSnap is hiring for multiple positions to join our remote-first team. We work every day to simplify the lives of players, coaches, parents, and sports organizations by taking the headache out of participating in and wrangling team and group activities.

Engineers at TeamSnap are critical to technical and product innovation, driving projects like the award-winning HealthCheck feature. We work on collaborative, fully distributed, and self-directed agile teams communicating directly in pair sessions, virtual team swarms, and asynchronously within slack. We build applications and services with Ruby, Elixir, React, TypeSript, CoffeeScript, Swift, Kotlin, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Firebase, and Google Cloud. On the Full Stack side, “T-shaped” developers are encouraged. Ideally you have in-depth knowledge of JavaScript, Ruby, or Elixir, and you should have a functional understanding of the others.

To learn more about the team, check out these manager highlight posts:

* https://www.teamsnap.com/blog/teamsnap-culture/teamsnappers-...

* https://www.teamsnap.com/blog/company/teamsnappers-manager-h...

We are hiring for:

* Senior Software Engineer - Back-end

* Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

* Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

* Senior Software Engineer - iOS

* Senior Manager/Director of Engineering

* Senior Manager, Growth Marketing

See these and all other positions here -> https://jobs.lever.co/teamsnap

mountaineeron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)

TeamSnap | Multiple Positions | REMOTE | https://www.teamsnap.com

TeamSnap is hiring for multiple positions to join our remote-first team. We work every day to simplify the lives of players, coaches, parents, and sports organizations by taking the headache out of participating in and wrangling team and group activities.

Engineers at TeamSnap are critical to technical and product innovation, driving projects like the award-winning HealthCheck feature. We work on collaborative, fully distributed, and self-directed agile teams communicating directly in pair sessions, virtual team swarms, and asynchronously within slack. We build applications and services with Ruby, Elixir, React, TypeSript, CoffeeScript, Swift, Kotlin, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Firebase, and Google Cloud. On the Full Stack side, “T-shaped” developers are encouraged. Ideally you have in-depth knowledge of JavaScript, Ruby, or Elixir, and you should have a functional understanding of the others.

To learn more about the team, check out these manager highlight posts:

* https://blog.teamsnap.com/company/teamsnappers-manager-highl...

We are hiring for:

* Senior Software Engineer - Platform

* Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

* Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

* Senior Software Engineer - iOS

* Senior Manager, Growth Marketing

See these and all other positions here -> https://jobs.lever.co/teamsnap