teekay

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by teekay 6mo ago
Trying to solve for tracking decisions, rather than issues, so that me & my coding AI buddy stay aligned with what I've decided previously: https://github.com/teekay/dictum Currently dogfooding and evaluating
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by teekay 1y ago
500 days on Duolingo and it has felt like it was produced by ChatGPT 3.5 this entire time. 500 days of learning various bits & pieces and not being able to have a simple conversation - but I could probably say "There is a monkey in
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by teekay 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | New York City Seasoned Product Engineer with 20+ YOE. Looking to help NYC founders scale beyond the MVP as your interim greybeard. I will clean up your code base and set you up for growth. Can help with infra (cloud and on-pr
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by teekay 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | Brooklyn, NY Keen to help teams in the tri-state area with hard problems around: - web performance - API integration - streaming media - modernizing legacy apps - creating quick PoCs and prototypes Tech: Node, JS/TS, PHP
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by teekay 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | NYC | Remote Location: NYC, Remote Helping with maintaining and modernizing legacy code bases - PHP, JavaScript, .NET. As a seasoned generalist, I'll make sense of the weirdest stack you might have, document it, moderniz
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by teekay 3y ago
A good way to get started is not to ask "How do I become a freelancer/consultant" but rather "what valuable business outcomes can I deliver with my technical skills" and then find clients who have those problems and
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by teekay 4y ago
You are right. Thank you! I edited it and removed the hourly billing bits so that I could better express my thesis.
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by teekay 4y ago
Location: NYC, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Node, Typescript, C#, WPF, SQL, Mongo, PHP, HTML, CSS, Azure, AWS... Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/tkohl Email: tomas [at] tomaskohl.com I
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by teekay 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | Anywhere in the U.S. | Will travel I'm coming to the U.S. on an investor visa to build my agency. This is your chance to snatch a senior generalist developer hungry to prove his worth. Whether you're an agency, star
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Is Agile a Welfare Program for Developers?(tomaskohl.com)
1 points by teekay 4y ago|2 comments
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by teekay 4y ago
One thing that has worked really well for me in the past was joining Toastmasters International. This is a group of people who are working on their speaking skills, but the effect goes way beyond improving one's public speaking. I&#x27
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Probably just use AWS. Or Azure(tomaskohl.com)
2 points by teekay 4y ago|0 comments
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by teekay 4y ago
I made such transition years ago, and then went back to technical roles. The primary benefit of doing this is that you develop a product and people-oriented mindset. All of a sudden, you are thinking about the "whys" instead of &q
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by teekay 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | CET, 6 hours overlap with ET possible | Remote I'll help your agency with software plumbing. Complex integrations, cloud deployment and performance, and backend code. Happy to get my hands dirty with work your people won
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by teekay 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | CET, 6 hours overlap with ET possible | Remote I'll help your agency with software plumbing. Complex integrations, cloud deployment and performance, and backend code. Happy to get my hands dirty with work your people won
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by teekay 4y ago
Good question. During the 2000 and 2008 crises, there were massive layoffs, which impacted contractors just as they did employees. In 2008, I contracted via an IT outsourcing company, and every week there was another announcement about a ba
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by teekay 4y ago
I wouldn't let the lack of a relevant degree get in my way. Sure, there are some EU countries where degrees are still being listed as a job requirement. Hell, when I contracted for a company in Munich, every other guy in the hallway ha
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by teekay 4y ago
I've been deploying to the serverless stack on Azure (Functions, Service Bus), and have been mostly happy. Azure gets a lot of hate around here and it's hard to disagree with some of the lived experiences. That said, mine have bee
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by teekay 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE, EU and US-East timezones | Back-end, integrations, performance Hi there! Need some help with complex backend topics, integrations, or your web app deployment and performance? I can plug into your team on a part-time b
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by teekay 4y ago
Great points! Now, I don't think that a hustle must necessarily equal "passive income." It can be a freelancing hustle, or a product hustle, or a SaaS hustle, but there's nothing passive about them. It takes time to come
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by teekay 4y ago
They sure do! I have quite some experience working in Waterfall orgs. Starting around 2012, I noticed Scrum becoming the default. But, not much changed, just the ceremonies are called differently! At many orgs, Scrum is just a thin veneer o
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by teekay 4y ago
There are two general paths that software devs can take: - do generalist software augmentation contracting, where you are essentially an employee but paid better (and fired faster but that goes both ways) - specialize, build expertise, and
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by teekay 4y ago
I don't remember the last time I signed up to a mailing list just to be notified when some random app goes live. Let alone pre-ordering. I would do that if I already trust the organization, which implies it has already launched useful
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by teekay 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | EU & US-East timezones | Remote Hi, I'm Tom, and I'm looking to connect with startups & agencies in NYC. I'll be coming over in late 2022 to set up my app dev shop over there. I've got tons of expe
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by teekay 4y ago
I have long thought that the JAM stack is primarily aimed at hobbyists, and I have changed my mind on the subject. True, for a hobbyist updating a blog a couple times per month, it works great. No Wordpress nightmares to wake you up at nigh
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by teekay 4y ago
How hard would you say it is to get one's foot in the door as a newcomer? My experience servicing US clients from Europe has been great so far. Most clients are easygoing and communicate really well. Also, it seems to me that most care
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by teekay 4y ago
I love Notion and use it for both work and personal purposes. It's definitely a matter of personal taste though. For me, it just works: the fluidity of the interface, adding new pages and sub-pages, the auto-saving that's complete
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Ask HN: Connecting with Fellow Hackers in NYC
1 points by teekay 4y ago|0 comments
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by teekay 4y ago
I wouldn't hire a PM for my practice and here is why. Given that I am serious about my freelancing and want to build a real business around it going forward, I have to be serious about running my business. That includes things like set
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Automated deployment on the Azure Functions Consumption plan(tomaskohl.com)
1 points by teekay 4y ago|0 comments

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