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Gabriel_Martin

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I'm a (former) musician, (forever) student, entrepreneur and hacker. Two failed startups since the initial writing of this, and now I do UI/UX development.

(my name) @ GabrielMartin.dev

(edit: 12.12.2013 - It's a bumpy ride. Ecommerce site this time.)

(edit: 5.14.2014 - Third time isn't the charm. Looking for ways to gain some experience and insight.)

(edit: 8.07.2014 - I found the Startup Institute Boston, and the experience has been life changing. Here's to the future!)

(edit: 2.29.2019 - now I'm a JS dev doing UI/UX development, who would've thought?)

(edit: 3.29.2022 - Hybrid UX dev and design, pretty pretty cool stuff)

(edit: 12/15/23) How lucky I was to fail. Married with a gig as a UX architect.

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Any advice for leaving my UI/UX dev career, possibly to Sales / AE?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What's the best way to find a role moonlighting as a UI/UX dev?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What's the best way to find a role moonlighting as a UI/UX dev?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: How have you successfully conveyed the scale of tech debt to management?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: How do you communicate the gravity of tech debt to a new team?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: What is the most LGBT friendly company you know of, preferably hiring?

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github.com 11y ago

AngularJS ngAnimate integration for Velocity's UI pack plugin

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en.wikipedia.org 11y ago

Ask HN: Is this 62-year-old Hoover sized project California's drought solution?

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hendrixer.github.io 11y ago

Ng-Fx (brings animate.css like animations to Angular)

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www.sublimetext.com 11y ago

Animated GIFs the Hard Way – Jon Skinner of Sublime Text

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codepen.io 11y ago

Show HN: An experiment with Velocity.js animations and Webkit gradients

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en.wikipedia.org 11y ago

Game from 91 patched in 2005 to fix bug, set clock in XP backwards 100 years

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: (meta) What are the peak hours of HN?

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www.google.com 11y ago

Bletchley Park – Google Search

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: What are the essential components of your front-end workflow?

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Does your startup have a t-shirt I can wear to school?

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plus.google.com 14y ago

Growing a volunteer network for entrepreneurs

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venturebeat.com 14y ago

Youtube adds a "Make it snow' button to videos

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Got time to volunteer for an entrepreneur?

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www.rsc.org 14y ago

Metallic microlattice 'lightest structure ever'

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Show HN: Entrepreneurial Advisory Corps

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Show HN: AngelList Army

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www.kickstarter.com 14y ago

Occupy Wall Street Journal

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www.huffingtonpost.com 14y ago

Pandora Founder: Want To Be An Entrepreneur? Notice What Excites You

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mixergy.com 14y ago

Now THIS Is Entrepreneurial Hustle - with Jennifer Reuting

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask YC: Do you still use Google Wave?

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techcrunch.com 15y ago

Yahoo’s 360 Degree Turnaround

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aljazeera.com 15y ago

Experts believe Fukushima to be far worse than governments are revealing

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mashable.com 15y ago

Barack Obama to Start Tweeting From BarackObama Account

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www.nytimes.com 15y ago

Computer Failure Delays United Flights Nationwide

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Hi Michael, the range of unique interactions and little pieces of visual feedback for users in your demos is super impressive, and as a designer, I hope you don't mind if I shoot my shot.

I'm ending a MIT xPro course on designing AI products in about a week, and I've been looking for places to put all my learnings to work, might your team have some room for a coding/prototyping UX developer/designer who has spent a lot of time thinking about AI-oriented HCI?

I think in 8 weeks of a co-op / or even part time basis, I could build out a ton of ideas you haven't gotten around to defining yet, but want to get a feel for the UX of. I'd love to hear from you (my email in in my profile).

While I do so love a good use of the word "wanker", this seems overly cynical to me, many systems which are tech islands succeed by growing an ecosystem, the console wars come to mind. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding you, certainly open to hearing more about your perspective Can you expand?

Location: Boston

Remote:Yes

Willing to relocate: Would consider

Technologies: HTML, JS, CSS, Design tools

Résumé/CV: Upon Request

Email: GabrielMartinUI@gmail.com

Hi there, I'm Gabriel. I was a UX dev who moved to the design side to make a bigger impact on user experience. I'm as comfortable working up prototypes in Figma as I am in Codepen.

To upskill for the upcoming Human-AI design reality, I'm currently enrolled at MIT in a program called "Designing and Building AI Products and Services", and would be open to co-op or part time roles during the class (ends early Feb), although full-time is preferred.

Here's a little fun project I made that builds on Pavel Dobryakov's awesome GLSL shaders. https://codepen.io/VizDevBoston/full/ExqMVZE

Location: Boston Remote:Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly, if it's critical

Technologies: HTML, JS, CSS, SVG, GLSL, UX Tools

Résumé/CV: Upon Request

Email: GabrielMartinUI@gmail.com

Hi there, I'm a New England based UX Designer and developer. I'm entering an MIT professional development program in designing and building AI products and services, so if there are any AI-centric roles with part-time or co-op opportunities, that can build into fulltime roles, I'd love to connect.

I'm a former UX dev who wanted to make a bigger impact on the product side, before the ball was already set into motion, so I can as easily whip up a prototype of a user flow in Figma, as a component interaction in Codepen.

I could do a pure UX design/research, or a pure UI development role, if a company would see a path forward to a more hybrid role over time. Above all else I enjoy contributing and making an impact.

I've done some neat stuff with GLSL interactions here: https://codepen.io/VizDevBoston

Also, I make art sometimes, some of it is here: https://codepen.io/gabrielmtn

Location: Boston

Remote:Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly, if it's critical

Technologies: HTML, JS, CSS, UX Design Methodologies

Résumé/CV: Upon Request

Email: GabrielMartinUI@gmail.com

Hi there, I'm Gabriel, a former UX dev who wanted to make a bigger impact on the product side, before the ball was already set into motion. I'm happier here! Taking on UX design with development chops is a blast, as it lets me control the granularity of the UX I want to describe depending on the situation, not to mention getting to collaborate with a lot of interesting folks.

I can as easily whip up a prototype of a user flow in Figma, as a component interaction in Codepen. I could do a pure UX design/research, or a pure UI development role, if a company would see a path forward to a more hybrid role over time. Above all else I enjoy contributing and making an impact.

I've done some neat stuff with GLSL interactions here: https://codepen.io/VizDevBoston

and I make art sometimes, some of it is here: https://codepen.io/gabrielmtn

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Nothing quite like ending with “smart move morons” to reinforce how one’s perspective is a thoughtful critical analysis, and not reactionary culture war buffoonery at all.

I find monetary alarmism so lazy and yet I always feel compelled to comment.

I’ve never heard a compelling argument to explain just how a monetary system in which all monetized debt becomes privately held wealth, can be framed as debt being a “scary, unsustainable thing” as if it’s household debt. At least this article frames it as a relationship with investors, but it still doesn’t cut to the meat of the issue, to me at least.

Writing debt in an out of existence seems way more conceptually scary than it is dangerous in reality, at least for an economy where households spend on average about 5,000 dollars a month.

It seems a much more important topic is monetary hegemony, than some certain debt to GDP ratio, but I never seem to see those concepts mentioned.

To me, it seems there are two sides to your point, one about trust, and the other about dollar value in context to growing federal debt. As for the trust, I think part of where things go beyond trust comes from a sort of self-reinforcing economic strength.

When the average monthly expenses for an American household add up to about $5,500, certain industries (like transportation (16.8 percent of those expenses), or food (12.8 percent) will always view the American economy as a leading market to operate in. At a macro level, it would seem that many businesses making this similar judgement call would create a dynamic that goes beyond trust.

Regarding the buying power of pensions point, I believe there are cost of living adjustment laws for buying power which require Army or Social Security pensions to react to USD's changing buying power over time.

It's interesting to me how visceral of a reaction the ideas that underpin this article create in so many different individuals' comments I've read in threads like this, despite economics and monetary policy typically being so boring.

One of the fascinating threads to pull within it is the origin of debt and credit creation. It raises some fun questions (some of which are just more random offshoots related to my interests than monetary policy or economic theory):

1) Did all private wealth held in USD originate as monetized federal debt at one point?

2) If banking systems didn't have access to fraction reserve systems, would they be effective tools for debt/wealth creation?

3) Is debt creation the same was wealth creation? How can labor and commodities even be effectively monetized without fluid systems of debt creation?

4) If the lowly game of poker was once used as way to build ad-hoc credit and wealth, before more sophisticated financial systems were more commonplace, how rigidly should we look at debt creation at all, federal or otherwise? Perhaps more gamified and ad-hoc systems would create a higher baseline of wealth globally? [1]

So many interesting questions.

1: MIT 15.S50 Poker Theory and Analysis, IAP 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZZ4y5GfdOU

Your HN account is probably older than many of those kids the church covered up the abuse of. But sure, she's the asshole for making you think about it.