ajb92
Joined 8 years ago
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Recent submissions
Comment · 17 days ago
It was nice knowing you, mannyv.
Comment · 2 months ago
howdy! This is the "Who's hiring?" post, I believe you're looking for the "Who wants to be hired?" post
Comment · 6 months ago
The trend on the status page[1] does not inspire confidence. Beginning to wonder if this might be a daily thing.
Comment · 9 months ago
Location: Southeastern PA, USA
Remote: Open to Remote, Hybrid, or Onsite (within reasonable distance)
Willing to relocate: (Potentially)
Technologies: NextJS, Typescript, React, NodeJS, PHP, LLMs, Postgres, Angular, Supabase, ReTool, Docker, DigitalOcean, Java, C#, building sturdy APIs and using the browser for all it's worth.
Resumé / CV: https://austinbillings.com/resume-public.pdf
GitHub: https://github.com/austinbillings
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/austinbillings
Contact me: austin [at] billings.is
I'm a fullstack web developer with management, design, and product expertise, now with 11+ years experience writing code full-time. I've worked on lots of interesting and successful projects over the years in exciting spaces, from fintech and AI to academia, e-commerce, medtech, and the music industry, across various tech stacks. I bring a heavy appetite for problems to solve and a unique approach/flair for creating compelling products.
To be totally candid, I'm coming off a year spent driving 2 early-stage startups (principally one I've cofounded) toward profitability and traction; a thrilling, difficult, exhausting, humbling, and worthwhile thing. Now I'm turning my sights toward my next role, ideally doing that which I respectfully submit I do best: turning dreams, wireframes, and DB diagrams into battle-tested and beautiful apps and other deliverables for all sorts of audiences. I'm open to new stacks, new product spaces, new market opportunities, and new ideas. Feel free to contact me if you think we might be a good fit.
Comment · 1 year ago
Who says your backend needs to manage state?
Comment · 1 year ago
Kind of a weirdly sad, uncharitable assumption to make
Comment · 2 years ago
Totally agreed, wd has been my secret weapon for nearly a decade.
Comment · 3 years ago
I share your pain. Luckily there are great apps out there (I use IconChamp[1]) that let you take full control of any given extension's associated icon, among other cool things. If your point is more purely about Apple's stance, then I extend a hearty "hear hear".
Comment · 3 years ago
Folowing Jony's departure, Apple did introduce a new mbp design that removed the Touch Bar-- but has also sold an updated version of the 13" model, which still includes it, for some time
Comment · 3 years ago
Where would you suggest one can find the most intelligent bunch on the web?
Comment · 3 years ago
Howdy HN! I'm a frontend dev of 8 years, with excellent design chops, refined soft skills, and a take-no-prisoners approach to getting amazing things accomplished.
- Location: Delaware, USA
- Remote: Yes
- Willing to relocate: No (exceptions possible)
- Technologies: Typescript, React, NextJS, NodeJS, Angular, Sass, D3, Prisma, Vercel etc.
- Resume: https://austinbillings.com/resume-public.pdf
- Email: [email protected]
I normally don't post things that sound so self-aggrandizing, but I suppose advertising myself as a commodity among those in the know is the place to do it: I've been referred to as a 10x engineer by developers with multiple times more experience than myself, I have led teams to great success in accomplishing tight deadline'd feature rollouts, in rewriting old webapps using modern best practices, and at each of my prior roles I have gone the extra mile (or several as the case may be) to drive productivity, increase code quality, and better team cohesion.
Comment · 3 years ago
Howdy HN! I'm a frontend dev with 8 years of full-time experience (18 years coding total), excellent design chops, refined soft skills, and a take-no-prisoners approach to getting amazing things accomplished.
- Location: Delaware, USA
- Remote: Highly preferred; would consider hybrid onsite in Wilmington/Philly
- Willing to relocate: No
- Technologies: Typescript, React, NextJS, NodeJS, Angular, Sass, D3, Prisma, Vercel etc.
- Resume: https://austinbillings.com/resume-public.pdf
- Email: [email protected]
I normally don't post things that sound so self-aggrandizing, but I suppose advertising myself as a commodity among those in the know is the place to do it: I've been referred to as a 10x engineer by several elder developers with more experience than myself, I have led teams to great success in accomplishing tight deadline'd feature rollouts, in rewriting old webapps using modern best practices, and at each of my prior roles I have gone the extra mile (or several as the case may be) to drive productivity, increase code quality, and better team cohesion.
Comment · 3 years ago
Makes sense to me. I'm a now 7 year vegetarian and I've tried somewhere between most and all of the meatless options I've encountered in restaurants and at grocery stores. I eat probably 15-20 meals a week based around meatless burgers, bacon, chicken, steak, sausage, etc.
In that time (well, 2020-present) we've gone from having Beyond burgers constantly in the fridge + inclusion in a meal every few days, and seeking out restaurants that have them, to completely avoiding them. I cannot tell if the flavor has actually changed or my family has become too accustomed to alternatives-- Impossible is king to us and I'll happily take Gardein or even Boca options over Beyond now, althought I'll happily take a Beyond patty over the average black bean burger, my original standard, back before the Brave New Meatless Times (black beans feature heavily in my diet still, but not on bread :).
It's worth noting their sausage- and chicken-type products are really quite excellent. But the standard bearer, the burger patty, doesn't compete these days, IMO.
Comment · 4 years ago
I would suppose this theory should apply to the Beatles as well?
Comment · 4 years ago
Business-as-usual. Day-to-day operations etc