mburst

Location: San Francisco, Bay Area

Remote: Yes, open to onsite, hybrid, or fully remote opportunities

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Django, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, React, React Native, Go, PHP, SQL, Java, Kotlin, Ruby, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mburst/

Email: https://mailhide.io/en/e/iINzNpnc or LinkedIn

• Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building consumer products at global scale

• Spent 3.5 years building up the mobile app, backend, and business tooling for ride hail operations at Cruise including pricing, payments, real time communication, and geolocation

• Spent 7.5 years across the stack at Imgur working on products such as content recommendation, data platform management, media uploads, image classification, frontend gallery browsing improvements, and more

• Open to full stack or backend roles

They pop up every now and then. Wouldn't say it's a common thing. Fwiw the overlap between a random tech meetup and HN users is probably pretty high. I've gone to a few in SF from meetup.com

It was a good time for sure. I worked there 7.5 years before leaving. Still keep in contact with a lot of people from that job. On the first work day of the month there are hiring threads on HN if you end up wanting to check those out

I've gotten a job through HN which has turned in to friendship if that counts. Every now and then meetups popup too which are cool

I believe it's US remote only. It can't hurt to apply though. The recruiting team may have other roles that are more globally available that they can point you to.

You can reach me in the email from my original comment or my profile. My first and last name is in my hn profile

Sorry to hear that. If it's for the role in my link or another product eng role let me know and I can have someone look in to it for you. If not the recruiter you're talking to is likely your best bet.

Awesome to hear you're interested! You can apply directly through the website there with your resume and someone from our recruiting team will reach out if there is a fit

Cruise | Full Time | San Francisco or US Remote | See links below for pay ranges

Cruise's ridehail team is looking for software engineering talent with backend, frontend, or full stack experience. On the backend we're using Express/Postgres/Redis with Typescript and on the frontend we're using React Native. Come help us build the future of self driving cars!

https://getcruise.com/careers/jobs/2537876/ - Staff Software Development Engineer (frontend, San Francisco or US Remote)

https://getcruise.com/careers/jobs/2657686/ - Senior Backend Software Engineer II (backend, San Francisco or US Remote)

https://getcruise.com/careers/jobs/2657665/ - Software Engineer, Consumer Ridehail Quality (full stack, San Francisco)

Feel free to reach out at firstname.lastname@getcruise.com I'm one of the software leads on the team

Cruise | Senior React Native Engineer | Full Time | San Francisco or US Remote | $166,600 - $245,100 + bonus + equity

Cruise's ridehail team is looking for a mobile expert to come in and help build out our iOS and Android app using React Native. Come help build the future of self driving cars.

https://getcruise.com/careers/jobs/2537876/

Feel free to reach out at firstname.lastname@getcruise.com I'm one of the software devs on the team

I started working on a project to solve this exact issue https://github.com/mburst/protomolecule. I haven't spent too much time building out other frameworks, but the first framework is React + Express which fits what you're looking for

It's times like these when I'm appreciative of the simplicity of the HN tech stack. Was talking to some people on discord when it went down and then noticed some other websites were down. Came right to HN to see 5 different threads about this. Will be curious to see what the cause of the issue turns out to be

I really enjoy my pbt key caps. Programmers spend all day at the keyboard and the oils from their fingers wear down the key caps and make their keyboards look terrible. PBT feels better and takes longer to break down. You can get a good set for $30. Just make sure the key caps on their keyboards come off.

Logitech also makes some nice wireless mice around $100 that are pretty ergonomic and comfortable to use. Anything to help prevent carpel tunnel is nice.

A lot of programmers really love the jetbrains tool suite, but that's more subscription based.

A lot of free database viewer tools pale in comparison to their paid counterparts. So something in that arena could be nice

I thought the same thing, but I found it hard to find views of inside of the apartments I sampled from the article. A lot of the apartment websites just talked about the amenities. Some had a floor plan, but no pictures of what the inside actually looked like. For a $7mil+ condo I was expecting a little more, but I'm also not really the target audience of those condos either

This reminds me of the Internet Explorer antitrust issue. Eventually Microsoft had to give users a choice on start up. Not sure if it directly led to better browsers or not, but it certainly didn't hurt. I could see the outcome being the same here where users will get to choose which store(s) they want on their device during setup rather than defaulting to the play or apple store

I've been running Flux https://justgetflux.com/ for over a decade now. Windows has something similar built in, but it's not as good as Flux in my experience. Flux has the ability to slower change the hue of your screen over time and gives you great control over it at every level. It also lets you set a notif for when you want to get up so when it alerts me that I'm 8.5 hours away from needing to wake up I know I need to start winding down

So cool to see all the different free services out there for getting in to web dev. I remember having to do graphic design work growing up to afford a shared hosting plan on my mom's credit card. Times have definitely changed :D

Lately I've been enjoying KubeSail's (https://kubesail.com/) free tier for playing around with some SSR things. A lot of the lambda like services don't do great with doing realtime stuff since they're just meant to run one piece of code then die a few seconds later

Yea my first programming job was translating word docs to accessible html for universities. The jobs around section 508 compliance seem mainly government related

I would recommend trying to study up on Section 508 compliance https://www.hhs.gov/web/section-508/index.html. It's a set of rules that all government orgs in the US must follow for making sure their content is accessible. If you do end up becoming visually impaired you'll end up with a unique perspective on building accessible websites.

1. Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain

2. An eSports league brings in more revenue than MLS (Major League Soccer).

3. Still no Half Life 3

4. Self driving personal cars aren't a thing yet but, autonomous trucks on highways is common with humans doing the last mile delivery.

5. A FAANG company is broken up due to anti-trust regulation, my guess is Google.

6. Britain ends the decade as part of the EU in some form

7. Quantum computing will become more accessible and people will be solving real business/global problems with it

8. All crypto currencies will be trending (if not already) toward $0

9. At least one global recession, similar to 2008 due to rising debt levels

10. Most in person payments in the US are contactless (Apple/Google Pay) instead of via swiping/inserting a card or paying in cash

It's because the email field has autofocus="autofocus" I believe

It's fortunate that the best jobs are the most fair, but even if a place sucks, a first SWE job is still a first SWE job.

I think part of this is just the free market at work. Some companies will pass on great talent to meet diversity goals and those that are focused on hiring the best people will end up giving themselves a better chance at succeeding

I think Kubernetes adds quite a bit of complexity if you've never worked with it before. As does any technology though really. Much easier these days to drag sliders right for more server resources if needed from AWS, GCP, Heroku, etc. Sure it'll cost more, but you have 100mil users and if your system doesn't scale horizontally you probably have a problem that isn't going to be solved by Kubernetes or any other orchestration system.

As an aside I think Voat failed because the community that came was toxic and the team behind it had no intentions of quelling it. https://gizmodo.com/goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-voat-reddit...

Depending on where you find the data, a lot of Americans live paycheck to paycheck [1]. An extra $240 a year will certainly help a lot of people out there, not just in America. That's why free services like Google and Facebook continue to win out. I really like what some companies in the gaming sector have achieved where the richer subsidize the poorer via buying hats and other cosmetics to keep the game free or lower priced.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/most-americans-live-paycheck...

Sygic is awesome! Used it to plan a trip to Japan and South Korea and it highlighted a bunch of cool attractions that I would have never known about otherwise

Funny quote, though it should be noted San Francisco isn't included in the shut off area

Looks like alt tags for accessibility purposes. Seems like a win win for all users. Easier to find photos and the ability for visually impaired users to get context on what their friends are sharing

Really awesome course! For those looking to run locally these seemed to be the most straight forward setup steps https://course.fast.ai/start_aws.html#step-6-access-fastai-m... assuming you have conda installed.

Astra blades are known for being the sharpest which makes it really easy to cut yourself. I went through a sample pack awhile ago and just logged how each shave was and then picked a blade that worked best for me

I think for the very large tech companies that have hundreds to thousands of engineers, microservices can make sense as a way to delegate a resource (or a set of resources) to a small group of engineers. The issue is that a lot of smaller companies/engineers want to do things the way these large companies do without understanding why they're actually doing it. The onboarding costs as this post mentions is huge. An engineer at a small company likely needs to know how the entire app works and spreading that over many services can add to the cognitive load of engineering. The average web app just doesn't really benefit from the resource segregation imo.