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Percy (https://percy.io) | San Francisco ONSITE | Full stack engineer

Percy's hiring the 2nd engineer to join the team -- work directly with the founders, have a large impact, and help set the culture from the start.

Percy's on a mission to eliminate manual QA review of web applications. We do this by integrating with test suites and component viewers, capturing snapshots, sending them to our browser rendering farm, and then automating the visual review process when the UI has changed.

Our customers include Google, Mozilla, Ubuntu, the New York Times, Basecamp, and Stitch Fix. We're growing strongly each month, as more engineering teams learn about Percy and adopt it to manage their own visual UI reviews.

If you have at least a couple of years working in a web stack, feel welcome to apply. You can find our job on Angellist, or email me directly tim@percy.io

GitHub Apps (was called Integrations until today) allows for 'per repository' configuration. We use it at Percy.io and it works pretty well. It has some other parts that need smoothing (like a non-admin going through the flow), but GitHub's been improving it. :) I like it a lot.

You're allowed to say no to your investors. In this case it sounds like you probably should.

$100k isn't giving you much runway in SV. You won't be able to hire anyone, and would soon be out of cash and have to leave (you'll save a portion of your cash for that right?).

If there's something you really want to move to SV for, come for 2 months, stay in an airbnb, and do what you need to do. If you need to and can, raise more money (investors or revenue) if you're set on moving here.

It's true! I was skeptical so I just called it and got a human after 1 button push and a 10 second wait.

Updating Rails 14 years ago

My app breaks going from 3.2.8 to 3.2.9. I haven't had time to fix it yet, so I've just applied the workaround for now too.

Ha. I've had and have plenty of data problems. After 2 days of making adjustments as per Basho's suggestions to try and improve the write throughput, I moved on. You seem to be making a lot of judgments and assumptions about that decision based on very little information. I guess this is troll food.