carnewal

Hey HN,

I've been working on Duty, a lightweight workflow orchestration tool for Node.JS/TypeScript. The goal is to provide durable, scalable, and Postgres-backed task orchestration.

Think of it like Temporal that only requires a Postgres database & and an npm install.

Think of it like a message queue but orchestrated with state persistence, automatic retries, and progress caching.

It's not ready for release just yet but I'd appreciate it if you read the README and starred the repository if this interests you at all.

I'd really like your feedback on this!

Thanks

My experience: I lived every day in agony knowing there's nothing of value I'm contributing to this company and everyone around me knows. I was turbo depressed.

If this is you I'd advise you to leave that job as soon as possible and take matter into your own hands.

I became an individual contributor at a different company after being in this non-hands-on manager role for just about 2 years. What followed was a sense of accomplishment, being a happier person overall and earning way more money.

Agreed, I'm not a designer but I do need to be able to edit images from time to time. I tried gimp but it just feels ... clunky?

Nowadays I just open up Photopea in the browser. No installs and it just works very well

Thanks for the heads-up. I have some disclaimers to add :-)

Fully agree with you BTW. Human intervention will not go away. From what I've seen people most of the time know the answer but don't know how to put it to words. This helps with that.

As an engineering manager in a huge SaaS company, most of my days consist of interviewing people and answering questions from sales for RFPs.

This tool will help with the latter. Use it & let me know what you think.

Hey Dries, what was the most challenging part of building Plunk?

Following the revanced link ...

> This page received a cease and desist letter from a multi-billion dollar tech company.

I guess you have your answer.

Sinch (Chatlayer) | Software Engineers (Full Stack, Backend) | Europe: Belgium (Antwerp), The Netherlands (Amsterdam); Brasil (São Paulo); Onsite/Hybrid/Remote

As a leader in CPaaS (Communication Platform as a Service provider), Sinch allows businesses to send text messages and make video and voice calls through strong APIs.

We are looking for software engineers to join the Sinch Chatlayer product team. Chatlayer empowers smart businesses to have authentic, valuable conversations with their customers - through the power of Conversational AI (chatbots). Our clients are global leaders in their fields, using our Conversational AI and quick-deploy intelligent chat- and voicebots to increase quality, to drive efficiency, and to bring customer intimacy to the next level.

We're a global team. The Chatlayer team is mainly based in Antwerp, Belgium, but we have sites and people all over the world. We can offer relocation assistance if that's something you want.

Node / React / Golang / MongoDB / PostgreSQL / Redis / OpenSearch / Kafka / Kubernetes / GCP

I'm Brecht Carnewal, Head of Engineering for Chatlayer. Shoot me an email at [email protected] if you want, would love to chat!

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