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We're growing the world's appetite for fresh produce in local vertical farms. We are expanding our production and are launching several product lines in the next 9 months.

Software at Beanstalk means an interesting mix of fields: logistical web apps, plant-growth-focused statistics, embedded systems, and whole-farm systems engineering. We are a team of multidisciplinary engineers who pride ourselves on pragmatism.

Our web stack is Postgres + Postgraphile + React, hosted in Kubernetes. Our robotics stack is Python + Arduino deployed via Balena to RPI's and ClearCore's.

Shoot me an email at [email protected] if this sounds interesting. Even if you're not a perfect fit for any of our open positions, we're happy to make up a role for the right engineer or scientist.

[0] All our open positions: https://boards.greenhouse.io/beanstalk

Comment · 5 years ago

Between idom[0], streamlit[1], anvil[2], and PyWebIO this space is moving quickly.

While it's a little rough around the edges, idom has worked great for us. I look forward to trying out PyWebIO at some point - it targets a different but valid use case.

[0] idom-docs.herokuapp.com/ [1] https://streamlit.io/ [2] https://anvil.works/

Comment · 5 years ago

Beanstalk Farms (W18) | Full-time | Senior Software Engineer, Director of Research, and more [0] | Washington DC | https://beanstalk.farm

We grow seeds from around the world in farms around the corner. To address the growing demand for fresh produce, we create fully automated vertical farms. We are expanding our production and are launching several product lines in the next 12 months.

Software at Beanstalk touches an interesting mix of fields: logistical web apps, plant-growth-focused statistics, embedded systems, and whole-farm systems engineering. We are a team of multidisciplinary engineers who pride ourselves on pragmatism.

Our web stack is Postgres + Postgraphile + React, hosted in Kubernetes. Our robotics stack is Python + Arduino deployed via Balena to RPI's and ClearCore's.

Shoot me an email at [email protected] if this sounds interesting. Even if you're not a perfect fit for any of our open positions, we're happy to make up a role for the right engineer or scientist.

[0] All our open positions: https://boards.greenhouse.io/beanstalk

Comment · 5 years ago

They have a "Shop" button on their homepage that lets anyone buy their product for installation on their own car. I had a coworker purchase Comma.ai + a specific make/model solely for its Comma.ai compatibility last year. Average people are getting in on this, for the better or (likely) worse.

Comment · 6 years ago

There is no built in admin UI but it's about a 15 minute task to connect up to Forest Admin, which plays like a dream.

Comment · 6 years ago

How can you apply this to debugging useEffect issues?

Comment · 6 years ago

We are in the process of transitioning off it because of those same Chinese origins... probably justified but it's a painful process.

Comment · 6 years ago

I use Roam [0] with Neuracache [1] to get a similar workflow to what you're describing. My notes are hierarchical and searchable w/ Roam. If I want to create an Anki entry, I add #flashcard anywhere in the note. I use secondary tags and links to further categorize these notes. The next time I import my Roam db to Neuracache all #flashcard entries are synced.

[0] https://roamresearch.com/ [1] https://neuracache.com/

Comment · 6 years ago

Do you think that the free market worked as desired in the case of Equifax?

Comment · 6 years ago

This only applies during December, but https://adventofcode.com/ is a fun experience! Most puzzles range from 30 minutes to 3 hours from start to finish.

Comment · 7 years ago

We make a large, enterprise-targeted app at my startup. Fullstory has accelerated our search for product-market fit by allowing us to make some significant discoveries in how users use our app.

We could have made all these discoveries by properly instrumenting our code with our own tracking framework. That said, Fullstory provided us a big bang for our buck in [time spent : value provided]; half-day implementation led to all the usage info we could need.

We've gone as far as creating a recurring "Game Tape Friday" meeting where the whole development team sits down and watches 5-10 user sessions together to record bugs and possible UX improvements.

We're not a small website so this anecdote may be of limited value to you, but I would personally give up syntax highlighting before I would give up Fullstory.

Comment · 7 years ago

This looks interesting! A couple questions:

How does this compare to CoreML? What are the advantages of running models on-device vs in the cloud via an API?