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Zach Bellay, Full Stack SWE, San Francisco, CA

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www.zachbellay.com 1y ago

My takeaways from DjangoCon EU 2025

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www.zachbellay.com 1y ago

I just want to code (2023)

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about.contexte.com 1y ago

We developed a custom collaborative editor for our journalists

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www.ezrakleinbooks.com 1y ago

Show HN: Ezra Klein Books – Every Book Recommended on the Ezra Klein Show

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What makes you disable your adblocker?

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www.zachbellay.com 2y ago

Hacker News' Favorite Laws and Principles

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components.one 2y ago

Gamers vs. Productivity Enthusiasts (2022)

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zachbellay.com 2y ago

Always Be Refactoring

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ischatgptworthit.com 3y ago

Show HN: Is ChatGPT Worth It?

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hnresumetojobs.com 3y ago

Show HN: HN Resume to Jobs – AI Powered Job Matching Tailored to Your Resume

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Are there any shortcuts in web development?

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colab.research.google.com 3y ago

Show HN: Hacker News Who's Hiring Semantic Search

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Best Raspberry Pi Alternative?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: How much of your code gets thrown away?

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zachbellay.com 4y ago

Maslow's Heirarchy of Data Needs

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zach.ws 4y ago

Show HN: The Scale of Wealth – a 3D interactive webpage side project

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: First Year Salary Negotiation Advice

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www.zachbellay.com 5y ago

Doxxing for Good

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Best tools for image processing pipeline at scale?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Gifts for Thesis Advisor?

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Anecdotally, my friend's grandma was an almond farmer. As they drove past a river in the Central Valley, she exclaimed "Why is there water in that river?! Those could be watering my almond trees!"

Would you apply that similarly to RSUs at a public company as well? i.e. always sell your stock grant and diversify regardless of the company?

Doomsday scoreboard 9 months ago

Yeah I was fully expecting this site to be making fun of all the wacko conspiracies about armageddon, such that it would make me feel better. But instead, the "Limit to Growth" summary seems entirely plausible.

I was laid off in Aug 2022, found a new role in March 2023, then found another role in March 2024. So basically 2 roles in 2.5 years. It's fairly common in the bay area, especially since I'm in the startup space.

Read through your comment history and it sounds gnarly. I hope you find something soon. I was unemployed for 6 months in 2022-2023 and it was horrible. I guess I learned something from it, but I hated it. That said, I became employed after applying to a role by emailing the CTO after they posted on the monthly Who's Hiring thread. I've had 2 jobs from HN since.

HN has been huge for my career personally, so I made this site to help make it easier to find stuff that's good for you: https://hnresumetojobs.com/

Sincerely wishing you the best of luck.

The reason PGE is so expensive is because it's a privately owned monopoly with a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder returns. Additionally, the urban areas of California are subsidizing the fire prone rural areas of the state.

The "fake costs" are not primarily from regulation as much as it is from the need to squeeze profit. For comparison, look at Silicon Valley Power which is owned and operated by the city of Santa Clara. SVP charges $0.175/kwh vs PGE $0.425/kwh. [1]

[1] https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/residents/rates-and-fees

Deep Agents 12 months ago

Hacker hacks on project and gets posted to Hacker News. Commenter on Hacker News: No thanks, no hacking please.

I grew up in Seattle, and moved to California in large part because of the seasonal depression I would get. I'm much happier in SF.

The conference coordinators said they would be released in about a month, so I will update the post once they are released! I am really excited to watch them again. Amazingly informative stuff.