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SEEKING WORK | Remote (happy to travel for kickoff, though) | Michigan, USA

I'm Sam Bleckley, a full stack engineer with 2 decades of successful outcomes consulting across dozens of industries. I can help with:

- Technical challenges ("We know the feature we want, but we don't have the expertise or the time to get it built")

- Process challenges ("We keep missing deadlines," "We're deploying too many bugs," or "The team has no motivation")

- Product design challenges ("We believe this solves our users' problems, but they aren't using it they way we expect")

I also offer fixed-bid development of small prototypes and MVPs, if you need to prove an idea, or have a new project hit the ground running.

If you're looking for experience in a specific tech stack, here are some of the technologies I'm comfortable using:

```AngularJS, Angular, AWS (S3, Lambda, RDS, &c.), C, CSS, Creative Cloud, Flask, git, Glamor, GCS, HTML, Javascript/ECMAscript, Lisps of many varieties, Next.js, Node, Photoshop, Python, Ruby on Rails, React, Ruby, SASS, SCSS, Svelte, Swift, Typescript, Vue, whatever legacy DSL you've got ```

If you want to know more about me, the services I provide, or my approach to software, check out https://sambleckley.com, or reach out to [email protected]

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last yeardiscuss

Tip: if you open your comment with SEEKING FREELANCER (as the instructions suggest), you may get more leads

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last yeardiscuss

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Michigan, USA

I'm Sam Bleckley, a full stack engineer with over 2 decades of experience consulting across dozens of industries. I can help with:

- Technical challenges ("We know the feature we want, but we don't have the expertise or the time to get it built")

- Process challenges ("We keep missing deadlines," "We're deploying too many bugs," or "The team has no motivation")

- Product design challenges ("We believe this solves our users' problems, but they still aren't using it")

I also offer fixed-bid development of small prototypes and MVPs, for the right project.

For people using text search, here are some of the technologies I'm comfortable using:

  AngularJS, Angular, AWS (S3, Lambda, RDS, &c.), C, CSS, Creative Cloud, Flask, git, Glamor, GCS, HTML, Javascript/ECMAscript, Lisps of many varieties, Next.js, Node, Photoshop, Python, Ruby on Rails, React, Ruby, SASS, SCSS, Svelte, Swift, Typescript, Vue, and whatever legacy DSL you've got

If you want to know more about me, the services I provide, or my approach to software, check out https://sambleckley.com, or reach out to [email protected]

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2 years agodiscuss

SEEKING WORK | United States / Michigan | Remote | Full Stack Software Engineer and Designer

I'm a software engineer and designer with 2 decades of experience across a wide range of industries, from B2B factory-floor logistics to language design to cute consumer web apps. I specialize in helping small teams solve tricky technical and process problems, quickly. Is your team not delivering as fast as you expect? Are you dealing with more bugs or more setbacks than you think you should? Is there some tricky architectural or design problem you can't crack on your own? I can help push your codebase and your team to improve, so that you'll be running on greased rails even after our contract is done.

For people using text search, here are some of the technologies I'm comfortable using:

    AngularJS, Angular, AWS (S3, Lambda, RDS, &c.), C, CSS, Creative Cloud, Flask, git, mercurial, svn, darcs, Glamor, GCS, HTML, Javascript/ECMAscript, Lisps of many varieties, Next.js, Photoshop, Python, Ruby on Rails, React, Ruby, SASS, SCSS, Svelte, Swift, Typescript, Vue

Check out me, my projects, and my writing at https://sambleckley.com, or reach out to [email protected]

diiq

2 years agodiscuss

SEEKING WORK | United States / Michigan | Remote | Full Stack Software Engineer and Designer

I'm a software engineer and designer with 2 decades of experience across a wide range of industries, from B2B factory-floor logistics to language design to cute consumer web apps. I specialize in helping small teams solve tricky technical and process problems. Is your team not delivering as fast as you expect? Are you dealing with more bugs or more setbacks than you think you should? Is there some tricky architectural or design problem you can't crack on your own? I can help push your codebase and your team improve, so that you'll be running on greased rails even after our contract is done.

Here are some of the technologies I'm comfortable working with:

    AngularJS, Angular, AWS (S3, Lambda, RDS, &c.), C, CSS, Creative Cloud, Flask, git, mercurial, svn, darcs, Glamor, GCS, HTML, Javascript/ECMAscript, Lisps of many varieties, Next, Photoshop, Python, Ruby on Rails, React, Ruby, SASS, SCSS, Svelte, Swift, Typescript, Vue

Check out me, my projects, and my writing at sambleckley.com, or reach out to [email protected]

diiq

10 years agodiscuss

Not sure how seriously to treat that question, but...

It seems like a cheap answer, but it needs more people, with more perspectives, trying out various answers to this question.

I suspect the greatest long-term leverage comes from providing people relief from the cognitive load of fighting for food, shelter, health, transportation, and education.

Those are heavy goals that lots of people have spent lots of time shifting only very slowly. The little-Alan-Kay-in-my-mind replies, "We need better thinking-tools in order to do it faster", which I can half-believe, but beyond that, I get stuck. I don't see how to work backwards from that to a first step that can actually be taken.

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10 years agodiscuss

This is maybe the most Alan-Kay-like response so far. Short, simple, but a tiny bit like a message from an alternate dimension. "No, no, I'm not asking you to build the also-wrong solution someone else has tried. I'm saying: solve the problem.

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10 years agodiscuss

How do you seek out the people you choose to work with, now or in the past? Is it an active process, or do you find interesting people naturally glom around a nucleus of interesting work?

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10 years agodiscuss

As a community, we often think on quite short time-scales ("What can we build right now, for users right now, to make money asap?"). I feel like you've always been good at stepping back, and taking a longer view.

So what should a designer or a developer be doing now, to make things better in 10 years, or 100 years?

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