tekbog

haha that's better than the original title

yeah, I was thinking about that but with Internet we still need to explore to get to the destination, with LLMs wasn't so much

haha yeah

thanks!

I wrote this a while ago but I think it's as relevant as ever, now with AI agents coming for everything.

Automating infra and systems engineering through devops agents. Basically solving all the pain points for anyone working in devops, sre, etc.

This started as a funny cli project because I was sick of AWS and Terraform.

Hope to release a public beta next month.

https://clankercloud.ai/

for any more info can also hmu @tekbog on twitter/x

Location: Remote until February or a bit more, I will be traveling next month, then I can move/relocate.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: Anything, but right now I mostly do DevOps/Systems.

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/bgdnvk.

Email: bnovykov@gmail.com.

Principal Engineer/Tech Lead with about ~8YOE. I've been in enterprise/big tech as well as startups, last two positions are from SF and NY startups. I can code, do DevOps/Infra, lead teams, etc. If you use twitter/X you probably saw me, feel free to throw me a DM there.

There's a great old book on this if someone wants to check it: Communicating Sequential Processes. From Hoare. Go channels and the concurrent approach was inspired on this.

I also wrote a blog post a while back when I did a talk at work, it's Go focused but still worth the read I think.

[0] https://bognov.tech/communicating-sequential-processes-in-go...

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We are hiring for two roles.

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If you are interested please reach out to bogdan at abelpolice.com with your resume and/or portfolio/github.

I've worked with WP in the past and while I'd rather choose something else from the tech perspective as someone who's dealt with clients of small (and large) businesses they just want something that works, and WordPress does.

It's not fancy and you will have to deal with a lot of horrible plugins that clients will want, or their marketing team, however from the product perspective it's an amazing technology - just like any that lasts 20 years in web dev IMO.

This isn't by any chance a defense of WP but before dunking on it think what else can you offer to a small business for the same price and functionalities.

I've been learning k8s this past weeks and the best thing so far has been the GUI elements coming from Docker Desktop. It might not make much sense for experts and at the end of the day you do have use the terminal and get comfortable with it.

However looking at the pods and checking their env vars has helped me a bit.

They stopped caring about what information you want to get and instead give you the information they think you should get. Sometimes it works, sometimes it's just awful.

Not to mention the constant pain that's localization/internationalization as well as some of the queries becoming worse and worse. The service is supposed to become better with time, not the contrary. Plus, of course, all the SEO garbage.

I have similar thoughts, and wrote an article called "death of reality"[0] (a bit dramatic I know). More and more of our identity is on the cyber space however all the tools allow more and more fakeness so we just make our own "digital persona", I don't think people are talking about this or noticing it enough. The last straw was with Samsung, unbelievable.

[0]https://bogdannovykov.substack.com/p/death-of-reality

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No, I don't think I will.

We can finally start an education and "testing" people's knowledge reform since GPT4 makes a lot of those tests irrelevant. It's an interesting point in history, how society, different institutions and countries will approach this new tool.

Most websites don't need to gather and sell your data but here we are.

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  Location: Spain, EU, Europe, EMEA
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: most likely
  Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, NextJS, React, Go (Golang), Java, Spring Boot and others
  Résumé/CV: https://bognov.tech/cv
  Website/Blog: https://bognov.tech
  Github: https://github.com/bgdnvk
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bogdan-novykov/

My timeline has just been all about Musk, I hide posts and so on but it's no use. He wants to be the main character and people are giving him attention. It's annoying and I have not that much interest in it.

People hate on Mastodon but there you can actually find insightful content with hashtags and see what you want, I spent a good amount of time curating my twitter TL but I don't see much use in going there right now. I don't preach to just migrate to mastodon or other places but Twitter seems like it has run its course, for me at least, I hope it improves since there used to be a lot of great content from developers once you block/mute people playing the algorithm.

Additionally I'm getting DM requests all the time from bots, today alone I got 3, I don't understand what's happened.

This is something I'd like to know as well and nobody is talking about it, weird.

Location: Spain, Europe, EU, EMEA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, although I'd need a relocation package. I have an EU passport so working anywhere in the EU isn't an issue.

Technologies: Javascript ecosystem (TypeScript, NodeJS, React, MERN stack, I do both backend and frontend although it's been a while since I touched CSS) and Java (Spring Boot). I've touched a bit of Go before and other tech like Ruby, PHP, Python, native mobile dev, Flutter, React Native and a long etcetera list. I've also dealt with cloud and devops although I wouldn't consider myself an expert.

Github: https://github.com/bgdnvk

Résumé/CV: https://bognov.tech/cv

Web: https://bognov.tech/

The link above is my blog, on the top right corner you can find my LinkedIn as well as my Twitter, contact me however you want.

I'm a full stack developer that's been freelancing for 4+ years now and my last full time role was CTO of a startup/scaleup. I'm looking for any long term full time SWE position, backend or frontend doesn't matter much. I want to settle for at least a year (more preferred) in a company or work consistently with one tech stack.

"I predict smooth sailing from here on out." -lukasb (2017) [0]

haha

[0]https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=135

I recently had to look into Go for an interview and the question you just made it's on a lot of people's minds however I'd say Go and Rust have different user cases so the answer, like always, it depends.

I'm unfamiliar with Rust, so I'm mostly going to address the little I know about Go. It's a great language if you want low memory consumption, concurrency and a fairly simple codebase - the language is minimalistic and C-like so it tries to shove complexity away. I'm someone who hasn't touched anything with pointers in ages and really loved it. Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and from what I've heard a lot of Google services are being developed in Go, think about what they have in common and if you have a similar use case or you specialize in backend and devops then GO for it.

However people are reporting that Rust is coming to the Linux kernel soon so it seems like a solid choice no matter what you pick.

I think I have a similar background to you and learning Go definitely made me a better programmer and it barely took any time.

(Self promotion ahead, skip to last paragraph) I even made an article[1] that's an introduction to Go where I talk about everything that seemed interesting to me and I follow up with a small project, it's meant for junior to mid level developers that want to start with Go or are undecided. Perhaps have a quick look (it's been well received and featured in Hashnode).

Overall I'd highly recommend learning Go, it was a breath of fresh air for me after working mostly with Node and Spring Boot. If I had to make a backend system, depending on the requirements, Go would definitely be a top choice for me.

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[1]https://bognov.tech/introduction-to-golang-build-a-mini-twit...

I don't understand why people are still surprised about Blizzard shenanigans. The golden era was 20 years ago, let it go.

Every new game from the last five years has been a disaster in one way or the other. They are even managing to slowly kill their never-ending holy cow: World of Warcraft.

Haven't seen it posted, but ignore if it's somewhere, here's the table with all the new prices:

https://www.digitalocean.com/try/new-pricing

I do not care about this war at all

You said everything you had to. Wow.