aru

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  ║ Hi, I’m Aru. I’ve architected        ║
  ║ production systems from ground-up    ║
  ║ and led diverse, distributed teams   ║
  ║ in past start-ups and I’m looking to ║
  ║ channel that zest into a bold        ║
  ║ company that’s solving meaningful    ║
  ║ world-changing problems. I can build ║
  ║ anything under the sun, and I thrive ║
  ║ in intensely creative positions      ║
  ║ where I have room to think outside the box.
  ║                                      ║
  ║ Location: Austin, TX                 ║
  ║ Remote: Yes                          ║
  ║ Willing to relocate: Yes             ║
  ║ Technologies: Python, Pandas,        ║
  ║ PyTorch, React, TypeScript,          ║
  ║ Django, Docker, iOS                  ║
  ║ Résumé/CV: aru.ai/.resume            ║
  ║ Email: See resume                    ║
  ║                                      ║
  ║ I’m looking for a culture that       ║
  ║ values deep work and                 ║
  ║ conscientiousness. I’m open to all   ║
  ║ companies – big or small, so please  ║
  ║ reach out if you find that I am a    ║
  ║ good fit.                            ║
  ║                                      ║
  ║ P.S. there’s an unsolved puzzle at   ║
  ║ the bottom of my site                ║
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Thank you – made my day!

If your site has less < 5,000 users a month, I can't imagine exceeding Lambda's free tier limit. You definitely want to go serverless if budget's a constraint.

I didn’t switch from zsh, but from bash, to fish, primarily because bash was occasionally a bit clunky to use, and there were a lot of things that could be optimized in a modern environment. I settled on fish because it suited what I was looking for: an ergonomic shell that worked well out-of-the-box. Paired with strong community support, clean scripting syntax, and a wide ecosystem, it makes for a really enjoyable shell experience. I haven’t tried zsh, so I can’t compare the two.

I’m happy with fish, and I don’t see much benefit to switching to nu. nu is exceptionally good at one thing: working with data, but lacks features in other areas (auto-completion, scripting, etc.). With time, I can see these features being implemented, but I think they’ll be re-inventing the wheel in a lot of areas that other shells are already good at.

I use this in combination with fish shell and it's been working really well. I can just switch over to `nu` when the task merits; no need to replace my current shell. I can also just run a one-off line like this.

   nu -c "ls | where size > 10b"