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Location: Seattle/WA/USA

Remote: OK (Any Timezone works well)

Willing to Relocate: Yes, open to the idea potentially.

Technologies: Python, PHP, Laravel, Javascript, Typescript, React, VueJS(2 & 3), Git, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/166TrdLL7szzpghIksJyLXjM9...

Email: sylk@protonmail.com

Multi-domain generalist with 8 years of professional work experience. Application engineering, general devops, legacy code refactoring, & building things that work for the people who need them. Scope of work done for most companies ranges from sophisticated web application engineering, greenfield development, maintaining brownfield/legacy applications, scripting deployments automation, & UI/UX design work.


I live near lakewood and just got furloughed, perhaps I'll give I'll send in an application. Thank you.


Interesting approach and I feel the burn of this quite often. Peers of mine have much greater hands dealt and I've worked quite hard to get where I'm at... I get bitter sometimes because theirs nothing I could have done to set up greater nets for myself or anything like that.

The disparity of equality and seeing the top after coming from the bottom makes you realize just how unequal things are and how it might just never change and get worse.


How do you even do this? Is it all remote?


No I work in an office 9h to 12h30, officially at half time (with half pay).

I'm not particularly efficient after lunch anyway, so it's better to just go home, in my case.


I think the worse RSS isn't in not having RSS, it's when they say "Hey here's a preview of what we wrote."

I really enjoy reading content on my terms on not having to go everywhere to get it. It makes my life much more peaceful.


Luckily some readers also include a "always fetch full content" feature that pulls the linked page and runs it through a "reader mode" to remove the garbage. These kind of feeds really annoy me.


> I really enjoy reading content on my terms on not having to go everywhere to get it.

Unfortunately, I like to write my content knowing how it's going to have a certain appearance and layout, and because this doesn't scale to the narrow set of HTML allowed in the <description> tag, I don't have anything in there and just have a link to my site.

There are definitely RSS feeds without content so you have to go to their site and have adverts thrown at you, yeah, but it's not as simple as flipping a switch and having readable content in your RSS feeds.


...and then I feed it into Reader mode on my phone, or something similar, because fuck stylesheets in general.


I work on a project that can transform many of those feeds into full-text versions: https://fivefilters.org/content-only/

Another solution for sites that don't offer their own feeds: http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/


Previews in RSS isn't perfect, but I'll take it.

One of my favorite webcomics updated very sporadically and didn't provide a RSS feed for the longest time; it was difficult to keep up with updates. The current feed is just a link to the comic and is a significant improvement.

The author was resistant to RSS for the longest time because they thought they _had_ to include the comic in the feed and was worried about losing ad revenue.


A bit of that is that RSS simply doesn't have great character support. You have to escape a whole bunch of stuff that is useful to have in the final product - because for most users the RSS is a notification feed, not the endpoint they go to.


If the site is ad supported I can see why they're doing it. Can't serve ads in the RSS feed (some RSS readers reserve that right for themselves).


You can use basic HTML and embed images, there's nothing stopping you putting adverts in a feed.


Rings true for me, I've worked hard to socialize and try to talk to a stranger everyday for at least 30 minutes. It's painless now, and I'm loving where I've come along my journey. It's been hard, but really well worth it.

It all started with me working in a call center 7 years ago...


Ah yeah, I'm definitely overpaid because I don't go home and choose to work instead of spending time with my friends or skip weekends out to work more contracts.

Yeah, that's right I'm over paid. Eat a bag of biscuits you assuming flesh bag.

I'm giving up parts of my life to make money, and you expect me to want less than what I'm making?


Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how provocative another comment is? We're trying for something better than internet default here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


GRIIIIIIIIIFFFFITH! (Cue berserk soundtrack)

But for real, interesting read. Thanks for linking that.

Would love to see some applications of such a thing.


How do I find more of these sort of events...? I'm in the midwest and would be honored to do something like this.


To be honest, I'm not sure how to find them. I somewhat fell into this one, but the term to search is "citizen science". https://www.citizenscience.gov/catalog has a catalog of Federal events. The one I do is more at the state level. There are also non-profits that often work closely with regional state and national parks.


I love all kinds of music and it'd be unrealistic for me to have it all purchased. I listen to easily 20 artists in a day, and those rotate very quickly.


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