SEEKING WORK - Remote/SF Based
Web Developer
Strong: Ruby, Rails, Redis, Mysql, HTML/CSS
Medium: PHP, Postgres, Javascript, Jquery
yan [at] cal-sys.com
No recruiters please
I can't even count the number of places I've interviewed and the number of entrepreneurs and startup engineers I know who work insane hours. I took a stand last year and said I'd stop working >40 hours a week -- full stop. It was the best decision I ever made. Sure, I got laid off from a small startup, but they had their priorities all wrong and weren't doing much right anyways. Now I'm at a place where the office is deserted at 6pm and I've never seen as much success and high quality innovation. I wish more folks in the startup scene would stop with the pissing contest of hours. It's seriously dumb. We're about disruption, right? Well how about disrupting silly norms like the 40 hour workweek?
"Not the place to swing around"? Firstly, there's plenty of entrepreneurs here who don't code at all. Secondly, that's a really silly thing to say. Do you honestly think that you can't be a great Rails engineer without having fluency with linked lists off the top of your head in an interview type situation? I can think of a thousand questions that would give me a much more accurate idea of how good a candidate would be as a web developer and the day to day issues they would face.
https://github.com/progrium/dokku
https://github.com/Kloadut/dokku-pg-plugin
DO has a Dokku vm you can select when you spin up a new droplet.