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gawin

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I'm Gawin, driving technological innovation at Temper.works.

Previously CTO at True.nl, Request.network, Hubs.com, Google Ara, Phonebloks and Archive.org.

Designing organizations and technologies to realize impactful ideas.

Minimalist, passionate about focus and simplicity.

Site: https://gaw.in

Location: meet.hn/city/nl-Amsterdam

Socials: - x.com/gawin - linkedin.com/in/gawin - github.com/gawin

Interests: Minimalism, Essentialism, Startups, Technology, Psychology, Design, Sports, Health

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Get a single 43” 4K monitor.

Then use a window manager that allows to automatically arrange windows. I build my own using Hammerspoon on macOS.

Great productivity upgrade.

Buy a Thinkpad and install Hackintosh.

I was so done with both the MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboards that I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T480s. Installed Hackintosh, running the latest macOS Mojave 10.14.5 without issues (only drawback is that the Touchpad on the MacBooks are better).

Finally I can type again.

Second that T480s, love it. 24GB RAM, 2TB SSD. Booting OpenBSD, macOS and Linux. Scaling on WQHD display works solid. Only drawback is that the WWAN (4G) only works under Linux and the touchpad is not as good as in a MacBook Pro.

CTO with 22 years in IT, 11 years as CTO

  Role: CTO
  Location: Amsterdam, EU
  Remote: Yes / Optional (7 years remote experience)
  Relocate: Yes / Optional
  Résumé/CV: https://gaw.in/resume
  Email: hello at gaw.in
Technologies

Languages: Ruby, Lua, SQL, Javascript, JSON, HAML, HTML, SASS, CSS, Applescript, XML, Python, R, PHP, Java, Go, Perl, C, Basic

Frameworks: Sinatra, LuaRocks, Riot.js, D3.js, Ruby on Rails, Django, Flask, Hugo, Jekyll

Version control: Git, SVN

Data: PostgreSQL, Redshift, Redis, Sidekiq, RabbitMQ, MySQL, Elastic, Mode Analytics

Deployment: Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet

Cloud: AWS, OpenStack, CloudFoundry, Heroku

Editors: Vim, Atom, Microsoft Visual Code

Design: Sketch, Pixelmator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Operating Systems: OpenBSD (daily driver), macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, Ubuntu Linux, iOS, Android, Windows

https://gaw.in/resume

Algolia and HackterNews (Y Combinator) are two different parties. Algolia implemented the HackerNews API (which is based on Firebase). Agolia uses their JavaScript library to enhance the user experience (for near instant search results).