amysox

  Location: Aurora, CO, USA (Denver metro area)
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  Technologies: Python, Java, Go, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
  Résumé/CV: https://erbosoft.com/~amy/resume.pdf
  Email: amy [at] erbosoft [dot] com

I've also recently deployed Electric Minds Reborn[0], a revival of a 1990's era virtual community using original data and a new software system written in Go, the Amsterdam Web Communities System[1]. Just to expand my horizons.

[0] https://electricminds.org [1] https://github.com/amysoxcolo/amsterdam

People were calling the film "a two-hour Daft Punk video" at one point. Which would be pretty cool, come to think of it.

I do think they were a pretty good choice to follow on from the original movie's electronic score by Wendy Carlos.

I feel like this should have had a warning like the one on the Epiphyte business plan in Cryptonomicon.

"EXTREMELY SERIOUS WARNING: Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear missile submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document. Please dispose of it as you would any piece of high-level radioactive waste and then arrange with a qualified surgeon to amputate your arms at the elbows and gouge your eyes from their sockets."

  Location: Aurora, CO, USA (Denver metro area)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel
  Technologies: Python, Java, Go, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
  Résumé/CV: https://erbosoft.com/~amy/resume.pdf
  Email: amy [at] erbosoft [dot] com

I've also recently deployed Electric Minds Reborn[0], a revival of a 1990's era virtual community using original data and a new software system written in Go, the Amsterdam Web Communities System[1]. Just to expand my horizons.

[0] https://electricminds.org [1] https://github.com/amysoxcolo/amsterdam

I was going to say something about the choice of acronym for the project, but, well, a couple people figured it out. :D

I guess I was bucking the trend with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720333, which points to https://electricminds.org.

The UI of Electric Minds Reborn (Amsterdam Web Communities System) was not AI-generated. At most, it was AI translated, as I used Claude to help turn old clunky 2006-era HTML into modern styling with Tailwind CSS. See also https://erbosoft.com/blog/2026/04/07/to-ai-or-not-to-ai/.

Robert Heinlein proposed something like that in his "lost" novel For Us, the Living: instead of declaring war, Congress would authorize a war referendum, in which only those eligible for military service could vote. The catch was, everyone voting "Yes" would thereby automatically sign themselves up in the military for the duration. If a further draft was needed, it would first be composed of those that didn't vote, and lastly those who voted "No."

(In the book, the "future" Congress had called war referenda on three occasions; each time, the vote was overwhelmingly "No," and historians believed those decisions were justified.)

It's hard out there for everyone in this market. I've got literal decades of experience, but I've been pounding the virtual pavement for month after month, and still nothing.

Well, Electric Minds Reborn is now online: https://electricminds.org

I will be continuing work on the new software that powers it, the Amsterdam Web Communities System. https://github.com/amysoxcolo/amsterdam

(I tried to "launch" it with a Show HN post, but it sank without a trace. I may try again, after I get back from vacation...)

Can we just call him "Secretary of Death Piss-Drunk Pete Kegstand"?

  Location: Aurora, CO, USA (Denver metro area)
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  Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel
  Technologies: Python, Java, Go, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
  Résumé/CV: https://erbosoft.com/~amy/resume.pdf
  Email: amy [at] erbosoft [dot] com

(I've been working on a major project in Go recently, to expand my horizons...it'll be deployed soon!)

This is a fantastic piece of work, AI or no!

Feature idea: For those of us who aren't familiar with The City, could you allow clicks on the image to identify specific landmarks (buildings, etc.)? Or is that too computationally intensive? I can identify a few things, but it would sure be nice to know what I'm looking at.

https://erbosoft.com/ - Includes a blog among other bits.

Or use Gitea or Forgejo and host it yourself.

Those of us who have been writing it "Micro$oft" since the 90's can now say, "I told you so."

  Location: Aurora, CO, USA (Denver metro area)
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  Technologies: Python, Java, Go, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
  Résumé/CV: https://erbosoft.com/~amy/resume.pdf
  Email: amy [at] erbosoft [dot] com

Seeking a senior SWE position; I have some lead experience as a developer, but am also on the board of directors of a nonprofit, which indicates additional leadership experience.

(I've been working on a major project in Go recently, to expand my horizons...)

Couldn't you do that with Ollama + Tailscale? Minus some of the fancy bells and whistles?

I'm reviving a project I last touched in 2006, in the hopes that it might be of use today in making social networking human again.

Back in the day, after the company I worked for bought the Electric Minds community and migrated it to its own CommunityWare system, and then the company that bought our company decided to shut the platform down, I reimplemented the community platform in Java and helped rescue the community. See: https://erbosoft.com/blog/2025/09/08/electric-minds/

EMinds eventually sputtered out because of the rise of platforms like Facebook. Well, now we see what came of that. So I think there's room for a platform like the one I used to have. See: https://erbosoft.com/blog/2025/11/03/what-we-once-had-and-co...

The new system is being written in Go. I'm porting the code over without using AI, though I have used Claude to translate the old crusty HTML pages into modern HTML with Tailwind CSS. Once it gets to the functionality I had back in 2006, I'll put it up...and then see about going beyond that, including how to make it distributed and provide more interoperability.

  Location: Aurora, CO, USA (Denver metro area)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel
  Technologies: Python, Java, Go, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
  Résumé/CV: https://erbosoft.com/~amy/resume.pdf
  Email: amy [at] erbosoft [dot] com

Seeking a senior SWE position; I have some lead experience as a developer, but am also on the board of directors of a nonprofit, which indicates additional leadership experience.

(I've been working on a major project in Go recently, to expand my horizons...)

Expect a ketchupnado in the White House...

My doctor's office does the same thing. So do some financial services companies.

What I'd like to know is why anyone thinks it's a good idea to have this level of granularity in libraries? Seriously? A library that only contains "a utility function that determines if its argument can be used like an array"? That's a lot of overhead in dependency management, which translates into a lot of cognitive load. Sooner or later, something's going to snap...and something did, here.

The cruelty is the point.

Also, don't expect them to do anything that benefits anyone other than their billionaire cronies.

That's like the old saying that when a company starts its message with "In order to serve you better...", what they really mean is "Bend over and assume the position."

  Location: Denver, CO, USA
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  Technologies: Python, Java, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
  Résumé/CV: https://erbosoft.com/~amy/resume.pdf
  Email: amy [at] erbosoft [dot] com

Seeking a senior SWE position; I have some lead experience as a developer, but am also on the board of directors of a nonprofit, which indicates additional leadership experience.

  Location: Denver, CO, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel
  Technologies: Python, Java, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
  Résumé/CV: https://erbosoft.com/~amy/resume.pdf
  Email: amy [at] erbosoft [dot] com

Seeking a senior SWE position; I have some lead experience as a developer, but am also on the board of directors of a nonprofit, which indicates additional leadership experience.

Especially since NYT is paywalled and Ars is not.

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said..."I drank what? "

  Location: Denver, CO, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel
  Technologies: Python, Java, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
  Résumé/CV: https://erbosoft.com/~amy/resume.pdf
  Email: amy [at] erbosoft [dot] com

Seeking a senior SWE position; I have some lead experience as a developer, but am also on the board of directors of a nonprofit, which indicates additional leadership experience.

  Location: Denver, CO, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel
  Technologies: Python, Java, C/C++, SQL/MySQL/Oracle, Linux, network development, integrations, Developer Relations, online community
  Résumé/CV: https://erbosoft.com/~amy/resume.pdf
  Email: amy [at] erbosoft [dot] com

Seeking a senior/staff SWE position; I have some lead experience as a developer, but am also on the board of directors of a nonprofit, which indicates additional leadership experience.