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I'm david. I like the Internet.

Email is (me) at my username dot com.

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I wear mine to sleep and that's where I get tremendous value out of it! I have small kids who are up one or more times overnight, and it's the first thing I check - is it midnight? Closer to 4am? Helps me make immediate decisions about how to handle the situation.

Seconding fastmail.

I have a catch-all and can reply from any address I please. If I reply from an email sent to retailer@mydomain.com it even auto populates the "from" address for me with "retailer", or I can choose to reply from one of my named accounts. It's really slick.

The Coleco Adam was my first computer. I was too young to appreciate it other than the hours spent playing _Pitfall_, but those are fond memories indeed.

I'm a longtime rock climber and climbed a tower professionally back in another life. With most things, it's practice with the gear that builds trust in your system. I can do most anything at a height these days because I know that I'm safe; it lets me push that lizard brain feeling away. I similarly experienced this learning to SCUBA dive a few years ago - it's horrifying! But the more time spent doing the thing, practicing the systems, failure modes, etc... let me relax and enjoy the fish rather than freaking out that I'm 70' underwater.

My wife and I went to Kauai and specifically rented a Jeep so we could take it on some moderate trails to see waterfalls and whatnot. We were somewhat dismayed when we arrived and found we had been "upgraded" to a BMW X5 and there were no actual off-road vehicles available from the company. It was a nice car, for sure, but not what we had wanted.

eGauge Systems | Full-Stack Engineer | Boulder, CO | ONSITE

eGauge is a small but growing company in Boulder, CO. We make energy meters that are UL listed and revenue grade accurate. Our customers include residential solar, industrial manufacturing, agriculture and more - oh, and we’re privately held and profitable.

As a member of a small team you will have a huge impact on our product. Your day to day will include writing maintainable code, communicating with various departments in the company, and helping steer product direction. Ideally you have experience empathizing with users to make usable software, and problem solving skills to tackle problems big and small.

Our stack is Django, Postgres, React, Ansible, and whatever you'd like to bring to the table if it makes sense as we build out our web services offerings. You'll get exposure to hardware (we do light manufacturing and hardware testing in-house here in Boulder) and firmware development.

Sound interesting? Shoot me an email, dave [at] egauge [dot] net.

eGauge Systems | Full-Stack Engineer | Boulder, CO | ONSITE

eGauge is a small but growing company in Boulder, CO. We make energy meters that are UL listed and revenue grade accurate. Our customers include residential solar, industrial manufacturing, agriculture and more - oh, and we’re privately held and profitable.

As a member of a small team you will have a huge impact on our product. Your day to day will include writing maintainable code, communicating with various departments in the company, and helping steer product direction. Ideally you have experience empathizing with users to make usable software, and problem solving skills to tackle problems big and small.

Our stack is Django, Postgres, React, Ansible, and whatever you'd like to bring to the table if it makes sense as we build out our web services offerings - we believe in the right tool for the job. You have experience with Django or another web framework and have a strong grasp of MVC architecture. You'll get exposure to hardware (we do light manufacturing and hardware testing in-house here in Boulder) and firmware development. We have a laid-back work environment, company lunches, and flexible time-off options. You can find more details on our careers page.

Sound interesting? Shoot me an email, dave [at] egauge [dot] net.

We just migrated a medium size project using pgloader with great success and minimal headaches, which seems like a big step up from the last time I had to migrate a project. Highly recommended, and it might be easier than you think!

Rot8000 8 years ago

I'd be more concerned if you used this for actual secrets.

Me too :) I think it was easier for Longmont as it's part of "Longmont Power and Communications" - they were able to run a lot of fiber in existing infrastructure, and right of way was essentially a non-issue.

Driving a few hours north to Wyoming on Saturday, and hoping to land a spot of BLM land close to the center of the path. Bringing a bunch of water, extra gas, sun shade, and a cooler of beer to wait it out a few days.

I'll also be launching a weather balloon before the event in hopes of catching some video of totality from >100k feet. A disc shadow 60 miles wide traveling at 1,500 mph as viewed from 20 miles up should be pretty cool. :)