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SpotOn | Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack) | Full-time | Remote (US)

We're building the restaurant operating system of the future! From point of sale systems to labor management, come help us make restaurants easier to operate..

Role Overview:

As a Senior Software Engineer at SpotOn, you'll be working with the Teamwork team to help build the future of restaurant labor management.

Responsibilities:

- Develop, test, and deploy our legacy PHP monolith. - Decompose our PHP monolith and extract into our Laravel API.

Requirements:

- Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer - Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.

Nice to Have:

- Startup experience. - Experience in Fintech or Restaurant tech.

What’s on Offer:

- A competitive compensation package. - RSUs - Fully remote

How to Apply: Email your resume, a brief introduction, and relevant portfolio or GitHub links to jack.slingerland@spoton.com. Mention you saw this on HN.


Are there any Raspberry Pi competitors that people like? I've see a few referenced in different articles but I don't have any idea how reliable or useful they are.


That will depend on what your project requires. There are a large number of Pi users that could get by with a simple x86 desktop-class PC or thin client [1] which, as the article points out, can have pretty similar wattage and compute power compared to say running 3-4 Pis.

It gets a little tricky when you start talking about GPIO requirements. There are things like the ASUS tinkerboard [2] but it's much more expensive than a Pi.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/used-thin-client-pcs...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WPVVZNH


Power usage is the problem. Running a machine that uses 10x more power to accomplish same task that a Pi could is an issue.


To clarify, yes it takes more power than a single Pi. But for any projects where someone would be running _multiple_ Pi's, then the power usage is close if not equal. These machines are able to run the workload of 3-5 Pi's with roughly equal power budgets of 3-5 Pi's.


There are a number of machines using 5800u @ 15W. That's hardly 10x more power. They are only slightly bigger but offer a quite a bit more performance, let alone features.

That said, what am I talking about costs about 500. There's some overlap but it's not exactly the same market.


15W for the whole system or just the AMD 5800U CPU?


The boards from Libre Computer are great because they work with mainline Linux and EFI, meaning you can boot any distro, be it Fedora, Debian etc. and directly use the latest distro kernels. You don't need a special image e.g. with a bootloader setup or some custom kernel that gets outdated quickly and never updated. It's really great to be able to not worry about the OS and kernel updates because you can follow what you would also do on your laptop or x86 server.

https://libre.computer/products/


I'm having success with Orange Pi One using Armbian to build images. Not going to be as performant as a Pi 4 by any stretch but at $25 a pop I can't complain


I don't see the "Engineering Director, Frontend" position on the hiring site. Is it still available?


This is similar to how developing with VSCode is on Windows + WSL.


Emacs+SLIME has worked like this since the beginning.


Same with Emacs + CIDER for Clojure instead of Common Lisp. Fully remote project setup on powerful server, accessed from local Emacs with TRAMP mode. CIDER commands (REPL included) work over the remote connection perfectly fine and run on the remote host, including automatic SSH tunnelling for the nREPL port if needed (for example if the remote host is behind firewall)


self hosted https://coder.com/ is amazing.


WSL does not run remotely. It runs in a VM locally.


WSL2 is running a VSCode server, exposes a port to the host and the VSC client from the host connects to it. In theory you could also run the VSCode Server on a remote machine.

I think the "Remote-SSH" plugin is a better fit for a comparison though, but @vital101's comment is not wrong.


The article mentions that they use minimal cells. "Minimal cells are simpler than naturally occurring ones, making them easier to recreate digitally."


I personally wouldn't build my own infrastructure. I'd use something like https://convesio.com/ and let them handle the scaling.


Exactly. Wordpress (plus plugins) is too much of a liability to host yourself. Personally use wpengine.com with comes with tools to keep Wordpress updated with the latest security patches automatically


I've been using Django with Vue sprinkled in on https://candid.work and it's been a pleasure. Using Vue for reactive stuff and then modifying form fields after the changes so Django can still do the updates has been a pretty great experience so far.


Off topic but did you use an off the shelf template for your actual application? The screenshots look very familiar for some reason.



Kernl (https://kernl.us) - WordPress Plugin/Theme Updates, Git Deployment, Analytics, Load Testing, etc.

Currently around $1200/month with fairly linear growth. It's a fun project to work on and I get to make money on the side for doing it.


This seems to be more active than passive.


Zero to IPO in five years. Well done team Slack!


Slack was founded in 2009. That was 10 years ago not five.


Slack the product was launched in 2013. The company, formally known as Tiny Speck, was founded in 2009. Their business and available products before 2013 had nothing with what Slack is today. So not absolutely farfetched to say launch to IPO in 5-6 years, if we're defining it by the relevant incarnation.


I made https://kernl.us solo and it's making ~$1100 MRR and growing.


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