Location: Ohio
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No (but see below)
Technologies: Kubernetes / Terraform / Ansible / Serverless / AWS / Rust / Bash / PHP / Python / JS / TS / C / Clojure / etc, happy to learn more
Résumé/CV: https://ndouglas.github.io/resume/resume.pdf
Email: See résumé
Site: https://darkdell.net/
I'm a generalist software engineer with most of my experience (14YOE professional) in backend, platform, infra, and DevOps stuff. I'm currently employed and love where I am and what I do, but I intend to relocate to the EU in 2028 and my job (federal contracting) is incompatible with that goal.
I'm very interested in deep learning, formal verification, and compliance automation, but also artificial life, complexity science, robotics, cybernetics (as in Beer), computational social sciences, network science, transit, city planning, etc.
I use Claude Code happily at work, as directed, and seen significant (though not unqualified) productivity gains. I've used it to varying degrees on different personal projects. I'm avoiding it now on personal projects (to retain and build skill). I can work anywhere along that spectrum.
I enjoy learning about what other people are working on, so even if you're not hiring or not interested in hiring _me_, I'd love to connect. I've had some genuinely transformative conversations with people I've met on HN, and I'd love to have more.
*EDIT*: I mean "I'd love to connect" IF you're not just trying to sell me something - especially your shitty AI résumé- or interview-prep services, you hacks.
As a side note for anyone who sees this, I received an unsolicited email from "Harold Anderson" (harold@signalvapor.org) but signed "Chris", trying to get me to buy an AI service (nspire.ai).
nspire.ai 's company page [1] lists as their head of sales "Chris Kinnard". Perhaps this is coincidental. Perhaps nspire.ai, and their head of sales, has nothing better to do than to spam people. Doesn't say much for the quality of their product.
Anyway, I wanted to share this scummy, shitty, spammy behavior, just in case anyone now or in the future happens to Google™ Theo, nspire.ai, AI career coaches, etc.
On another note, I dig your box of cards. I've recently re-encountered the Commonplace book [1] idea in multiple places (and when two events pertaining to the same object of inquiry occur simultaneously, I always pay strict attention), and this is kind of a similar idea.
I've had wikis before but they always became more about the engine / storage / infrastructure / etc, and I like your lightweight vision.
FSRS is really cool. I'm trying to use it and a modified flashcard system to learn more abstract computer science and higher math. I hadn't considered it as a way of learning Chess - that's really interesting. I'm thinking about expanding my system to cover ear-training, birdsong recognition, a few other things like that.
My listening comprehension for Piano has always been lacking. A deck of piano sounds that map to actual notes (or even chords) might do wonders for it...
My current decks are as follows - I spend about an hour in total reviewing/learning them all, daily:
Are you finding the French decks helpful? I'm also trying to learn French (not using spaced repetition _per se_ but Pimsleur [which does use spaced repetition, really], InnerFrench, and reading [currently reading _Le Trône de fer_]).
I ended up giving up on it because my right shoulder is damaged from rheumatoid arthritis. Go where I could not, anon291. May your reeds be clean and your bellows free of mildew.
- you're actually listing a job
- the job pays money
- the job pays a sane amount of money for the region in which you're hiring
- you're actually trying to hire someone for the job
- you don't demand they jump through stupid hoops like write an essay about Stendhal's views of modernity or your favorite unrolled loop from the GNU standard library
- you don't come back every month for the next three years advertising the same job without hiring anyone for it
- the business model isn't obviously delusional ("we're going to feed the global poor with AI, we just need to, uh, figure out some niggling little details")
- you reply to inquiries and applications
- you don't come back every month for the next three years advertising the same job without hiring anyone for it
Placing a $100 bounty for anyone who can extend the "HN Hiring Pro"(1) extension with an adjustable filter to remove posts by companies that also posted last month, 2 months ago, etc.
There are no incentive structures (besides possibly "posterity") to encourage anyone to see past their noses. In fact, hardly anyone at any level of any organization, public or private, is able to operate with a real longterm, sustainable outlook. They'd get shitcanned for trying to plan ahead, even if they were intellectually equipped for that.
[1] https://eblong.com/infocom/maps/zork-1-poster.jpg (big)
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